The suspense was announced for the Best Actor in a Musical Award. Renly won his first nomination and won his first Oliver Award at the age of 23!
But the awards ceremony is still not over, and the five most important awards have not yet been awarded!
The first to debut is the best director.
The competition in this department is unimaginable. The most nominated works such as "The High Hat" and "Sweeney Todd" did not even make it to the final stage. The Master and Margaret", "The Late Night Puppy Mystery" and "Les Miserables".
After going through the whole awards show, it can be concluded that the final competition should focus on "The Late Night Puppy Mystery" and "Les Miserables."
It's also true that "Les Miserables" director John Corder beat out "Late Night Puppy Mystery" director Maria Elliott for the first time in his career to receive an Oliver Award. Lay the last cornerstone of Les Misérables' big win tonight.
At the moment of his acceptance speech, John was also at a loss and was overwhelmed with emotion.
John specially thanked the cast and crew for their hard work, especially Renly, "Thank you Renly Hall. When everyone refused to believe that you were capable of being Jean Valjean, you did not fear and flinch, but worked around the clock. Training and rehearsal, and finally delivered an amazing performance, conquered all the audience, and made this play."
As he spoke, John couldn't help choking, wiping the tears from his cheeks embarrassedly, "Thank you for believing in me, and thank you for being willing to stand on this stage."
"Les Miserables" made Renly a brilliant, and in turn, Renly made a "Les Miserables" classic.
So far, all the individual awards have been awarded, and then it is the turn of the four major repertoire awards.
The best new drama, "The Mystery of the Puppy in the Night" reached the top without any suspense, defeated powerful opponents such as "The Queen's Summons" and "Outstanding People", and continued the strong development curve that was highly praised tonight.
The best revival drama, "Long Nights and Long Roads" broke out a minor upset, and popular works such as "Macbeth", "Twelfth Night" and "Old Days" all fell off the horse and became a foil.
The best new musical, "High Hat" is the best, and the other nominated works are hardly a threat. From the side, it can be seen that the overall situation in the West District is not optimistic.
The best revival musical, "Les Miserables" ended perfectly, easily repelled a group of powerful enemies, and drew a perfect ending to tonight's outstanding performance, officially declaring a great victory.
It can be seen from the trend of the four major repertoire awards of the Oliver Award that brand-new repertoires have fallen into the quagmire one after another, and there are fewer and fewer outstanding works. From creativity to script, from conception to stage, it has entered a downturn in an all-round way, and the overall competitiveness is generally in general. Not strong; it is precisely because of this that the wave of revival of classic plays led by Shakespeare is on the rise, and the frenetic pursuit of "Les Miserables" in the past year is the best proof.
Objectively speaking, this is not only the dilemma of theater, but also the dilemma of film and television.
The sharp reduction of original scripts, the violent increase of adaptation projects and sequel projects, and even the selection of adaptation objects have begun to further expand, which has gradually become the mainstream trend of artistic creation all over the world, especially under the influence of the Internet age and fast food culture , the pace of updating is getting faster and faster, and the difficulty of originality is getting bigger and bigger.
In this year's Oliver Award nomination stage, "Les Miserables" made history with eleven nominations; after tonight's awards ceremony, "Les Miserables" won eight trophies and also made history, breaking the "Mattie" Erda" set a new record of winning seven trophies last year!
"Eternal God Emperor"
The Queen's Theater version of "Les Miserables" has been on for 28 years, and now, the Almeida Theater version of "Les Miserables" has written history again! Just this reincarnation has already been recorded in the history books.
but why
As original projects become more difficult, adaptations and revival projects are becoming more common.
In fact, before the nomination list was released, the voice of "Mysterious Puppy Incident in the Late Night" was rising rapidly, and even had a tendency to overtake "Les Miserables".
People in the industry have expressed that they should remember to award original repertoires and new repertoires more, encourage artists to continue to create, and everyone gathers firewood and the flames are high, truly reawakening the creative ability of the entire industry, and forming a long-term development for the West District. A virtuous circle.
But in the end, the revival play "Les Miserables" still maintained an absolutely strong posture.
The reason is complex and simple. John Codd's version of "Les Miserables" opens a new door, showing people completely different adaptation techniques, bold and innovative ways of discussing, old trees blossom, and an old play is revived. vitality.
More importantly, John Codd is not just fried rice. On the basis of the original work, he started thinking and digging, injected a new soul, re-examined the classic story from a different perspective, and successfully conquered the audience and drama critics. .
This is undoubtedly a crucial revelation for the entire industry! Creation is not only limited to new ideas and nurturing, but can also be secondary processing of divergent thinking, and it can also be in-depth digging that changes the angle, truly extracting the width, depth and thickness of the artwork.
As a result, the 2013 Oliver Awards came to a successful conclusion, and "Les Miserables" became the biggest winner with eight record-breaking trophies!
Since its premiere night last year, "Les Miserables" has received cheers and praise from the industry, changing the status quo in every aspect of the industry; and further, spreading around the world.
From the West End to Broadway, the strong momentum has been successfully continued. On the approaching anniversary of the premiere, the Almeida Theatre also announced the tour schedule for Sweden, Germany, France, Japan, Australia and other places around the world. The new version The "Les Miserables" also came to more audiences.
Best Revival Musical, Best Director, Best Actor in a Musical, Best Supporting Actor in a Musical, Best Stage Director, Best Stage Design, Best Costume Design, Best Audience Choice.
With eight trophies in total, "Les Miserables" once again became the focus of attention, setting off stormy waves in the UK. In an instant, all eyes were focused on the Tony Awards two months later.
After landing on Broadway, the equally acclaimed "Les Miserables", which has swept thousands of troops and is one of a kind, can win the favor of the American Dramatic Association? Can it continue the strong performance above the Oliver Award? Can we usher in a bumper harvest of awards again? Can history be made again? the most important is-
Renly-Hall.
Can Renly continue to win the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical? Can it cross the border step by step to capture the four top awards every year, and achieve an incredible EGOT in just four years? Can it break the shackles of age again and truly write a new history that no one can surpass
It's absurd to say that the nominees for the Tony Award have not been announced. It is very likely that Renly has not even been nominated, let alone made history. It is too much to discuss a "possible" now. The rush is too urgent, and all the discussions are meaningless until the nominations come in.
But that's what it is.
Everyone is talking about it, from the UK to the US, from Europe to Asia, from the theatre industry to the film industry, from entertainment news to social news, all of a sudden, it seems that everyone realizes the possibility of EGOT, so they have moved. Eyes, joined the heated discussion, as if they really understood "what it means to be under 24 EGOT".
I'm afraid most of the people involved in the discussion didn't even understand what EGOT was referring to.
However, it is also proved from the side that the popularity of topics in the era of social networks has presented a new scene. As the most popular young actor today, Renly's appeal has once again been vividly reflected, and related topics are vigorously spread throughout the entire spread over the network.
Even ordinary netizens who don't know anything about EGOT can't wait to start Google to investigate, seriously start to understand the background information, really read all the ins and outs, lest they fall behind the tide of the times, in the heated discussion Left out, unable to keep up.
Rarely, the Oliver Awards and the Tony Awards have also bloomed with brilliance comparable to the awards season, which has sparked heated discussions in the whole society!
In this regard, the "New Yorker" wrote a special report, which carried out in-depth analysis and discussion, and they called this phenomenon the "Master Effect".
"Renly Hall, the name is becoming an icon of the times.
It symbolizes talent and dedication, one-heartedly devoting himself to the pursuit and struggle of a specific cause, and in the name of dreams, it shines like moths to flames.
It signifies that one's mind is undivided and goes all out, every work is a guarantee of quality, every performance is a guarantee of expectation, and the powerful appeal is forming a phenomenon-level wave.
It also symbolizes maturity, wisdom, elegance and calmness, calm and self-control in the bustling Vanity Fair, refusal to lose oneself, and self-indulgence, and always maintain a pure heart.
While everyone is marveling at the birth of miracles, from TV to film, from music to theater, Renly reinterprets what it means to be an actor, putting his own definition on the term as an actor's career and dream. Different labels; but Renly has let go of the past, looked to the future, returned to his work again, and started again on the ground.
Interestingly, this is an internet age, impetuous, eager, restless, uneasy, turbulent, these are the key words; but Renly is slowing down, slowing down the pace, lightening the weight, step by step out of a line. own path. This is not his time, but it is his time.
To end with a quote from Renly Hall at the Oliver Awards: Thank God, I really am an actor. "