Olivier Awards Nominations Announced

The Olivier Awards nominations were announced February 29, 2016. The ceremony, the 40th anniversary of the Awards, will be held at London's Royal Opera House on April 3.

Farinelli and the King, starring Mark Rylance, leads the design categories, with Jonathan Fensom nominated for both Best Costume Design and the Blue-i Theatre Technology Award for Best Set Design. Claire van Kampen's Musical Arrangements are also nominated for the Autograph Sound Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music, as well as the Musicians and Lestyn Davies and the Singers who alternated the singing role of Farinelli.

The production is scheduled to come to Broadway in the fall.

Additional design nominees include:

Best Costume Design
Gregg Barnes, Kinky Boots
Hugh Durrant, Nell Gwynn
Katrina Lindsay, Bend It Like Beckham

Blue-i Theatre Technology Award for Best Set Design
Hildegard Bechtler, Oresteia
Es Devlin, Hamlet
Anna Fleischle, Hangmen

White Light Award for Best Lighting Design
Neil Austin, The Winter's Tale
Natasha Chivers, Oresteia
James Farncombe, People, Places And Things
Mark Henderson, Gypsy

Best Sound Design
George Dennis, The Homecoming
Tom Gibbons, People, Places And Things
Christopher Shutt, The Father
Christopher Shutt, Hamlet

Autograph Sound Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music
Bend It Like Beckham -- Music by Howard Goodall, Lyrics by Charles Hart, and Orchestrations by Howard Goodall and Kuljit Bhamra
In The Heights -- Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Kinky Boots -- Music and Lyrics by Cyndi Lauper, Music Supervision, Arrangements and Orchestrations by Stephen Oremus

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