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The Laurence Olivier Awards 1996

Title: The Laurence Olivier Awards 1996 [videorecording] / Produced and directed by Geoff Miles ; presented by The Society of London Theatre, in association with the American Express Company ; produced for BBC-TV.
Publication: London, c 1996.

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS) (92 min.) : sound, color; 1/2 in.

Series Statement

Laurence Olivier Awards

Alternative Title

1996 Olivier Awards

Subjects

Genre/Form

Television.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits (note)

Musical director, Kevin Amos ; lighting designer, Bernie Davis.

Performer (note)

Hosts: Gary Wilmott and Sheridan Morley.
Presenters: Cliff Richard, Kim Wilde, Pauline Collins, Paul Nicholas, Christopher Dean, Marti Webb, Lily Savage (i.e. Paul O'Grady), Beryl Grey, Richard Baker, Tim Rice, Brian Rix, Maureen Lipman, Bill Nighy, Will Wyatt, Penelope Wilton, and John Crew.
Award recipients: Judi Dench, Adrian Lester, Simon Russell Beale (accepted by Matthew Warchus), Sheila Gish, Dein Perry, David Hersey, Anthony Ward, Matthew Bourne's Swan lake (accepted by Matthew Bourne), Billy Budd (accepted by Alison Chitty), Sam Mendes, Mojo (accepted by Jez Butterworth), Alex Jennings (accepted by Haydn Gwynne), Skylight (accepted by David Hare), Harold Pinter, and Jolson: the musical (accepted by Rob Bettinson and Francis Essex).
Performers: Adrian Lester, Caroline O'Connor, Jo Collins, Paula Rees, the Chicken Shed Theatre Company, the cast of Fame: the Musical (including Sonia Swaby), Brian Conley (as Al Jolson), and Sally Ann Triplett.
Performers, archival footage: Lupino Lane, Christopher Plummer, Zoë Wanamaker, Claire Skinner, Flora Robson, Peter Ustinov, Michael Gambon, and Lia Williams.

Event (note)

Videotaped at Grosvenor House Hotel, London, England, February 18, 1996.

Contents

Songs / (Show) / Performer: Marry me a little / Company / Adrian Lester -- Time heals everything / Mack & Mabel / Caroline O'Connor -- We need each other / Chicken Shed Theatre Company -- Medley / Fame: the Musical / Company, featuring Sonia Swaby -- Medley / Jolson: the Musical / Brian Conley and Sally Ann Triplett.
Plays excerpted / Actors: The glass menagerie / Zoë Wanamaker and Claire Skinner -- Absolute hell / Judi Dench -- Skylight / Michael Gambon and Lia Williams.

Call Number

NCOX 1267

OCLC

1341866760

Title

The Laurence Olivier Awards 1996 [videorecording] / Produced and directed by Geoff Miles ; presented by The Society of London Theatre, in association with the American Express Company ; produced for BBC-TV.

Imprint

London, c 1996.

Series

Laurence Olivier Awards

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits

Musical director, Kevin Amos ; lighting designer, Bernie Davis.

Cast

Hosts: Gary Wilmott and Sheridan Morley.

Presenters: Cliff Richard, Kim Wilde, Pauline Collins, Paul Nicholas, Christopher Dean, Marti Webb, Lily Savage (i.e. Paul O'Grady), Beryl Grey, Richard Baker, Tim Rice, Brian Rix, Maureen Lipman, Bill Nighy, Will Wyatt, Penelope Wilton, and John Crew.

Award recipients: Judi Dench, Adrian Lester, Simon Russell Beale (accepted by Matthew Warchus), Sheila Gish, Dein Perry, David Hersey, Anthony Ward, Matthew Bourne's Swan lake (accepted by Matthew Bourne), Billy Budd (accepted by Alison Chitty), Sam Mendes, Mojo (accepted by Jez Butterworth), Alex Jennings (accepted by Haydn Gwynne), Skylight (accepted by David Hare), Harold Pinter, and Jolson: the musical (accepted by Rob Bettinson and Francis Essex).

Performers: Adrian Lester, Caroline O'Connor, Jo Collins, Paula Rees, the Chicken Shed Theatre Company, the cast of Fame: the Musical (including Sonia Swaby), Brian Conley (as Al Jolson), and Sally Ann Triplett.

Performers, archival footage: Lupino Lane, Christopher Plummer, Zoë Wanamaker, Claire Skinner, Flora Robson, Peter Ustinov, Michael Gambon, and Lia Williams.

Event

Videotaped at Grosvenor House Hotel, London, England, February 18, 1996.

Local Note

Gift of Paul Korn.

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Added Author

Miles, Geoff (Television producer)

Miles, Geoff (Television producer), television director.

Amos, Kevin, conductor.

Davis, Bernie, lighting designer.

Wilmot, Gary, 1954- host.

Morley, Sheridan, 1941-2007, host.

Richard, Cliff, presenter.

Wilde, Kim, presenter.

Collins, Pauline, 1940- presenter.

Nicholas, Paul, 1945- presenter.

Dean, Christopher, 1958- presenter.

Webb, Marti, presenter.

O'Grady, Paul, 1955- presenter.

Grey, Beryl, 1927-2022, presenter.

Baker, Richard, 1925-2018, presenter.

Rice, Tim, 1944- presenter.

Rix, Brian, 1924- presenter.

Lipman, Maureen, presenter.

Nighy, Bill, 1949- presenter.

Wyatt, Will, presenter.

Wilton, Penelope, 1946- presenter.

Crew, John, presenter.

Lester, Adrian, performer.

Lester, Adrian, recipient.

O'Connor, Caroline, 1962- performer.

Collins, Jo, performer.

Rees, Paula, 1970- performer.

Swaby, Sonia, performer.

Wanamaker, Zoë, 1949- actor.

Skinner, Claire, actor.

Triplett, Sally Ann, performer.

Conley, Brian, 1961- performer.

Lane, Lupino, 1892-1959, performer.

Plummer, Christopher, actor.

Robson, Flora, 1902-1984, actor.

Ustinov, Peter, actor.

Gambon, Michael, actor.

Williams, Lia, actor.

Dench, Judi, 1934- recipient.

Dench, Judi, 1934- actor.

Warchus, Matthew, speaker.

Gish, Sheila, 1942-2005, recipient.

Perry, Dein, recipient.

Hersey, David, recipient.

Ward, Anthony, 1957- recipient.

Bourne, Matthew, 1960- speaker.

Chitty, Alison, speaker.

Mendes, Sam, recipient.

Butterworth, Jez, speaker.

Gwynne, Haydn, speaker.

Hare, David, 1947- speaker.

Pinter, Harold, 1930-2008, recipient.

Bettinson, Rob, speaker.

Chicken Shed Theatre Company.

Society of London Theatre.

American Express Company.

British Broadcasting Corporation.

Korn, Paul, donor.

Note

Title on cassette label: 1996 Olivier Awards

Research Call Number

NCOX 1267

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