Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival explained
The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial London theatre. The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976, and renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor and director Laurence Olivier.
This award was introduced in 1991. From 1997 to 2007, the award was presented as Outstanding Musical Production.
Winners and nominees
1990s
2000s
2010s
| Year | Musical | Book | Music | Lyrics |
|---|
| 2010 |
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| Hello, Dolly! | Michael Stewart | Jerry Herman |
| Annie Get Your Gun | Herbert and Dorothy Fields | Irving Berlin |
| A Little Night Music | Hugh Wheeler | Stephen Sondheim |
| Oliver! | Lionel Bart |
| 2011 |
|---|
| Into the Woods | James Lapine | Stephen Sondheim |
| Passion | James Lapine | Stephen Sondheim |
| Sweet Charity | Neil Simon | Cy Coleman | Dorothy Fields |
| 2012 |
|---|
| Crazy for You | Ken Ludwig | George Gershwin | Ira Gershwin |
| Singin' in the Rain | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Nacio Herb Brown | Arthur Freed |
| South Pacific | Oscar Hammerstein II and
Joshua Logan | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II |
| The Wizard of Oz | Andrew Lloyd Webber and
Jeremy Sams | Andrew Lloyd Webber and
Harold Arlen | Tim Rice and E. Y. Harburg |
| 2013 |
|---|
| Sweeney Todd | Hugh Wheeler | Stephen Sondheim |
| A Chorus Line | James Kirkwood, Jr. and
Nicholas Dante | Marvin Hamlisch | Edward Kleban |
| Cabaret | Joe Masteroff | John Kander | Fred Ebb |
| Kiss Me, Kate | Samuel and Bella Spewack | Cole Porter |
| 2014 |
|---|
| Merrily We Roll Along | George Furth | Stephen Sondheim |
| The Sound of Music | Howard Lindsay and
Russel Crouse | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II |
| Tell Me on a Sunday | Don Black | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Don Black |
| 2015 |
|---|
| City of Angels | Larry Gelbart | Cy Coleman | David Zippel |
| Cats | T. S. Eliot | Andrew Lloyd Webber | T. S. Eliot, additional by Trevor Nunn and Richard Stilgoe |
| Miss Saigon | Alain Boublil and
Claude-Michel Schönberg | Claude-Michel Schönberg | Alain Boublil and
Richard Maltby, Jr. |
| Porgy and Bess | Dorothy Heyward, DuBose Heyward and Suzan-Lori Parks | George Gershwin and
Diedre Murray | Dorothy Heyward, DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin |
| 2016 |
|---|
| Gypsy | Arthur Laurents | Jule Styne | Stephen Sondheim |
| Bugsy Malone | Alan Parker | Paul Williams |
| Guys and Dolls | Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows | Frank Loesser |
| Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Lawrence Kasha and
David Landay | Gene de Paul, Al Kasha and
Joel Hirschhorn | Johnny Mercer, Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn |
| 2017 |
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| Jesus Christ Superstar | Tim Rice | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Tim Rice |
| Funny Girl | Isobel Lennart | Jule Styne | Bob Merrill |
| Show Boat | Oscar Hammerstein II | Jerome Kern | Oscar Hammerstein II and P. G. Wodehouse |
| Sunset Boulevard | Don Black and Christopher Hampton | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Don Black and Christopher Hampton |
| 2018 |
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| Follies | James Goldman | Stephen Sondheim |
| 42nd Street | Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble | Harry Warren | Al Dubin and Johnny Mercer |
| On the Town | Betty Comden and Adolph Green | Leonard Bernstein | Betty Comden and Adolph Green |
| 2019 |
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| Company | George Furth | Stephen Sondheim |
| Caroline, or Change | Tony Kushner | Jeanine Tesori | Tony Kushner |
| The King and I | Oscar Hammerstein II | Richard Rodgers | Oscar Hammerstein II | |
2020s
Multiple awards and nominations
Awards
- Two awards
Nominations
Four nominations
- Three nominations
- Two nominations
See also
References
