'Memphis,' 'Beautiful' lead race for London's Olivier Awards
LONDON (AP) ― Two Broadway 輸入するs, "Memphis: The Musical" and Carole King show "Beautiful," lead the race for British theater's Olivier Awards, with a clutch of 指名／任命s each, 含むing best new musical.
"Memphis," 始める，決める in the segregated 1950s American South, received nine 指名／任命s Monday, 含むing best actress in a musical for soul-singer 星／主役にする Beverley Knight. "Beautiful" had eight, with Katie Brayben a 競争相手 for her 業績／成果 as chart-topping songwriter King.
The other 指名された人s for best new musical are "Sunny Afternoon," the story of The Kinks, and Imelda Marcos-奮起させるd "Here Lies Love," created by David Byrne and Fatboy わずかな／ほっそりした.
Plays about British 王族 past and 未来 支配する the 非，不，無-musical 部類s. A two-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Tudor saga "Wolf Hall" has five 指名／任命s. "King Charles III," which imagines the troubled 統治する of the 現在の 相続人 to the 王位 Prince Charles, has six.
Best-actress 指名された人s are Gillian Anderson for "A Streetcar 指名するd 願望（する）," Kristin Scott Thomas for "Electra," Imelda Staunton for "Good People" and Penelope Wilton for "Taken at Midnight."
Angela Lansbury, still onstage at 89, is up for best supporting actress for playing scatterbrained psychic Madame Arcati in "Blithe Spirit." Nicole Scherzinger, former member of pop group the Pussycat Dolls, received a supporting-actress in a musical nod for playing Grizabella in a r evival of "Cats."
Best actor 競争相手s are James McAvoy for "The 判決，裁定 Class," Tim Pigott-Smith for "King Charles III" and two 星／主役にするs of plays by Arthur Miller ― 示す Strong for "A 見解（をとる） from the 橋（渡しをする）" and Richard Armitage for "The Crucible."
The Olivier awards, Britain's 同等（の） of Broadway's Tonys, 栄誉（を受ける） 業績／成就s in London theater, musicals, dance and オペラ. 勝利者s will be 発表するd during an April 12 儀式 at the 王室の オペラ House.
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