Broadcast details and show line up announced for Oliver Awards 2023 with MastercardOlivier Awards 2023 with Mastercard announces broadcast details and show line upOFFICIAL PRESS RELEASENEWS PROVIDED BY ITV Press Centre • Performances from all nominated best new musicals including The Band’s Visit, Standing at The Sky’s Edge, Sylvia and Tammy Faye • Best revival nominees Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! And Sister Act as well as Disney’s Newsies up for Best Theatre Choreography. • Special performance from multi–Olivier Winner Book of Mormon celebrating 10 years in the West End and a Grease tribute to celebrate Special Award winner Arlene Philips • Olivier Awards ceremony to be broadcast on ITV1 and ITVX at 10.15pm with full live coverage on Magic Radio from 6pm Sunday 2 April 2023The Olivier Awards 2023 with Mastercard have officially announced the shows performing in this year’s ceremony. The Awards will take place on Sunday 2 April at the Royal Albert Hall, hosted by Hannah Waddingham. There will be performances from all of the Mastercard Best New Musical nominees – The Band’s Visit, Standing At The Sky’s Edge, Sylvia and Tammy Faye. There will also be performances from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! and Sister Act, both nominated for Magic Radio Best Musical Revival. Additionally, there will be performances from Disney’s Newsies, whose choreographer Matt Cole is nominated for the Gillian Lynne Award for Best Theatre Choreographer, multi-Olivier winner The Book Of Mormon will be celebrating with a special performance marking 10 years in the West End. Special Award winner, Dame Arlene Phillips, will be honoured on the night with a special performance from Grease the Musical. The Olivier Awards continues its partnership with ITV, which will broadcast highlights programme the same evening at 10:15pm on ITV1 and ITVX. The full ceremony will be broadcast live from the Royal Albert Hall on Magic Radio, the Official Radio Partner, hosted by Ruthie Henshall and Alice Arnold from 6pm. TikTok will also be hosting a live stream on the Green Carpet, with theatre performer and content creator Hannah Lowther (Heathers, Snow White: Pantomime, SpongeBob: The Musical) as their host. Viewers from outside the UK can tune in on Official London Theatre’s channel from 6pm BST. AboutEDITORS NOTES Society of London Theatre (SOLT) is a not-for-profit organisation which represents approximately 230 London-based producers, theatre owners and managers, including all the major subsidised theatrical organisations in London. SOLT runs the Olivier Awards, West End LIVE, TKTS, Theatre Tokens, Kids Week, the New Year Sale and Official London Theatre. Looking beyond the announcement to the wider work of London’s theatre sector, the nominations could not have come at a more crucial time. Ahead of the Spring Budget in Westminster, the Society of London Theatre are leading the call for the government to maintain the higher rate of theatre tax relief, which has galvanised the world-beating productions and performances nominated today by providing the financial environment for increased investment in a challenging climate. Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Follow us on Twitter: @MastercardUK TIKTOK
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March 28, 2023 5:00am ET by ITV Press Centre |
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