LONDON
An intimate, sold-out production of “Cabaret” was the big winner at Sunday’s Olivier Awards, taking seven prizes including acting trophies for its high-voltage stars, Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley. Literary adaptation “Life of Pi” took five awards including best new play.
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“Cabaret” was named best musical revival at the ceremony, which saw the Oliviers — Britain’s equivalent of Broadway’s Tony Awards — return to live collective prizegiving after a three-year break imposed by the coronavirus pandemic.
Redmayne and Buckley won lead acting prizes for their roles as the Emcee and Sally Bowles in a production of “Cabaret” that transformed London’s Playhouse Theatre into the Kit Kat Club in 1930s Berlin. Liza Sadovy and Elliot Levey won supporting performer awards for the same production, which continues its London run with new leads — and is rumored to be Broadway-bound.
Buckley, who was praised by Redmayne as “one of the greats,” appeared overwhelmed to have won.
“It’s my worst nightmare and my biggest dream all at once,” she said.
