Charlotte Gallagher
Information Correspondent
Reporting fromRoyal Albert Corridor 
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Lesley Manville, John Lithgow and Imelda Staunton had been a number of the winners on the Olivier Awards 2025.
Listed below are 5 issues we discovered at UK theatre’s maximum prestigious evening.
John Lithgow’s going to wish every other door
Lithgow used to be probably the most large winners of the evening, taking house the coveted absolute best actor trophy for his portrayal of Roald Dahl in Large.
The actor, who has starred in Conclave, The Crown and third Rock from the Solar, tells us “he by no means idea” he would win an Olivier.
Lithgow studied at drama college in London within the Sixties and noticed Sir Laurence Olivier carry out when he used to be a scholar within the capital.
He has gained a couple of awards already, so the place will Lithgow show his first Olivier?
“I am not an excessively useless particular person, I am most definitely now not useless sufficient. I principally use awards for doorstops.
“I’ve precisely six doorways, as an example, on the second one ground of my Los Angeles house and I have additionally gained six Emmys. So I can need to search for every other door!”
How is Billy Porter taking part in British audiences and our meals?
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Porter hosted the display at the side of Beverley Knight
Porter is the king of Broadway who’s recently starring because the Emcee within the severely acclaimed Cabaret within the West Finish.
He tells us he loves UK audiences and says even if they’re “a bit extra reserved” than US crowds, they have got in reality “loosened up”.
Porter, who hosted the Olivier Awards with West Finish big name Beverly Knight, does have a couple of phrases of recommendation for British chefs regardless that.
The actor says “whilst the meals higher than it was”, it nonetheless wishes extra “salt and pepper, sooner than you cook dinner it, now not after”.
Now we have presented to have him spherical for dinner on the BBC canteen, let’s have a look at if he accepts.
Romola Garai’s Olivier set to enroll in superheroes
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Romola Garai used to be nominated two times in the similar class
Garai beat off stiff pageant – together with from herself – to take house the Olivier for absolute best supporting actress for her function in The Years.
She used to be additionally nominated in the similar class for Large.
It’s Garai’s first Olivier win and he or she already has an concept the place the prized trophy will probably be displayed.
“My little boy did ask that if I gained, may he stay it in his room and I used to be like, ‘I assume you’ll be able to!’ So it’ll be with all his motion figures.
“I think that I am accepting this on behalf of my youngsters, my husband. Everyone sought after me to do one thing I felt so passionately about.”
Has Celine Dion observed the display about…Celine Dion?
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The staff at the back of Titanique
Titanique is a type of presentations the place seeing in reality is believing.
This can be a jukebox musical of Celine Dion hits, the place Celine herself hijacks a museum excursion concerning the Titanic with a view to narrate her model of what came about the evening the vessel sank.
Were given it?
The display gained two Oliviers – absolute best supporting actor in a musical for Layton Williams for his portrayal of the notorious iceberg, and absolute best leisure or comedy play.
Titanique is a tribute to Celine’s powerhouse vocals, so has the Canadian diva observed it but?
The solution isn’t but, however creators Tye Blue, Marla Mindelle and Constantine Rousouli say her set dressmaker, backing singer or even Celine’s sister have watched it.
Rousouli says he “would explode into 1,000,000 items of mud” if Celine used to be within the target audience.
However Mindelle, who originated the function of Celine in Titanique, says she “would faint… then (the true) Celine Dion would stroll on level and in some way take over the phase and it might be precisely the similar.
“The display would pass on and not using a hitch.”
‘I used to be at a Zumba elegance’
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Meera Syal at the inexperienced carpet on the Olivier Awards
Meera Syal’s efficiency in A Tupperware of Ashes used to be greeted with rave critiques, so it isn’t a surprise she used to be nominated for absolute best actress at this 12 months’s awards.
Syal performed a mom recognized with early onset Alzheimer’s illness.
The actress says she discovered she have been nominated for the celebrated performing prize after leaving a Zumba elegance.
“I noticed about 10 overlooked calls from my agent and relatively a couple of from my daughter and idea, what’s going on?
“So, sweaty and in my leggings, I rang up and were given the scoop, and it used to be this sort of pretty wonder for a Tuesday morning!”
