Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical | |
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Awarded for | Best New Musical |
Location | England |
Presented by | Society of London Theatre |
First awarded | 1976 |
Currently held by | Back to the Future (2022) |
Website | officiallondontheatre |
The Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical 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.
Winners and nominees
1970s
Year | Musical | Book | Music | Lyrics |
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1976 | ||||
A Chorus Line | James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante | Marvin Hamlisch | Edward Kleban | |
Ipi Tombi | Bertha Egnos | Gail Lakier | ||
Side by Side by Sondheim | Ned Sherrin | Various Artists | Stephen Sondheim | |
Very Good Eddie | Philip Bartholomae and Guy Bolton | Jerome Kern | Schuyler Green and Herbert Reynolds | |
1977 | ||||
The Comedy of Errors | Trevor Nunn | Guy Woolfenden | Trevor Nunn | |
Bubbling Brown Sugar | Loften Mitchell | Eubie Blake | ||
I Love My Wife | Michael Stewart | Cy Coleman | Michael Stewart | |
Something's Afoot | James MacDonald, Davis Vos and Robert Gerlach | |||
1978 | ||||
Evita | Tim Rice | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Tim Rice | |
Annie | Thomas Meehan | Charles Strouse | Martin Charnin | |
Elvis | Jack Good and Ray Cooney | Various Artists | ||
1979 | ||||
Songbook | Monty Norman and Julian More | Monty Norman | Monty Norman and Julian More | |
Ain't Misbehavin' | Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby | Fats Waller | Various Artists | |
Bar Mitzvah Boy | Jack Rosenthal | Jule Styne | Don Black | |
Chicago | Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse | John Kander | Fred Ebb |
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Year | Musical | Book | Music | Lyrics |
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2020 | Dear Evan Hansen | Steven Levenson | Justin Paul | Benj Pasek |
& Juliet | David West Read | Max Martin | ||
Amélie | Craig Lucas | Daniel Messé | Daniel Messé and Nathan Tysen | |
Waitress | Jessie Nelson | Sara Bareilles | ||
2021 | Not presented due to extended closing of theatre productions during COVID-19 pandemic | |||
2022 | Back to the Future: The Musical | Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis | Alan Silvestri | Glen Ballard |
The Drifters Girl | Ed Curtis and Tina Treadwell | Various Artists | ||
Frozen | Jennifer Lee | Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez | ||
Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical | Lee Hall | Bob Marley | ||
Moulin Rouge! The Musical | John Logan | Various Artists |
- ^ a b Due to late March 2020 to late July 2021 closing of London theatre productions during the COVID-19 pandemic in England, the 2022 awards recognise productions that launched anytime from February 2020 to February 2022
Multiple awards and nominations for Best New Musical
Awards
Five awards
Three awards
Two awards
See also
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