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25th WhatsOnStage Awards
Date9 February 2025
LocationLondon Palladium
Most nominationsStarlight Express (9)
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The 25th WhatsOnStage Awards are set to take place on 9 February 2025 at the London Palladium for the second time.

Winners and nominees

Nominations opened on 7 November 2024. The nominees for the 25th WhatsOnStage Awards were announced in December 2024 by My Fair Lady stars Molly Lynch, David Seadon-Young and Minal Patel at the Curve Theatre in Leicester.

Best New Play Best New Musical
Best Play Revival Best Musical Revival
Best Performer in a Play Best Supporting Performer in a Play
Best Performer in a Musical Best Supporting Performer in a Musical
  • Siobhan Athwal, Bhangra Nation
  • Amy Di Bartolomeo, The Devil Wears Prada
  • Melanie La Barrie, Hadestown
  • Grace Mouat, Mean Girls
  • Jaydon Vijn, Starlight Express
  • Tom Xander, Mean Girls
Best Takeover Performance Best Professional Debut Performance
  • Esme Bowdler, Heathers the Musical
  • Jeevan Braich, Starlight Express
  • Stevie Doc, Mamma Mia!
  • Vasco Emauz, Back to the Future
  • Mia Kobayashi, Your Lie in April
  • Gerardine Sacdalan, & Juliet
Best Direction Best Musical Direction/Supervision
  • Mark Aspinall and Darren Clark, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • Mark Aspinall and Dan Turek, Fiddler on the Roof
  • Simon Baker and Niraj Chag, The Buddha of Suburbia
  • Alasdair Macrae, Macbeth
  • Matthew Malone, Brassed Off
  • Tarek Merchant and Liam Robinson, Hadestown
Best Choreography Best Sound Design
  • Paul Arditti, Brace Brace
  • Susan Bear, Maggie and Me
  • Nicola T Chang, Minority Report
  • Gareth Fry, Macbeth
  • Gareth Fry, Viola's Room
  • Gareth Owen, Starlight Express
Best Set Design Best Costume Design
  • Jon Bausor with puppetry by Toby Olié, Spirited Away
  • Miriam Buether, Kyoto
  • Es Devlin, Coriolanus
  • Tim Hatley, Starlight Express
  • Kenneth MacLeod, Maggie and Me
  • Tom Scutt, Fiddler on the Roof
Best Lighting Design Best Casting
  • Amy Ball, The Years
  • Chloe Blake and Alastair Coomer, Till the Stars Come Down
  • Harry Blumenau and Sarah-Jane Price, Why Am I So Single?
  • Stuart Burt, Fiddler on the Roof
  • Anna Cooper, Macbeth
  • Lotte Hines, A Raisin in the Sun
Best Video Design Best Wigs, Hair and Make Up Design
  • David Bergman, The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Grant Gee and Ellie Thompson, Bluets
  • Andrzej Goulding, Starlight Express
  • Tal Rosner, Minority Report
  • Ash J Woodward, The Artist
  • Ash J Woodward, Fangirls
  • Campbell Young Associates, The Devil Wears Prada
  • Jackie Saundercock and Campbell Young Associates, Starlight Express
  • Marg Horwell, The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Betty Marini, The Cabinet Minister
  • Hiroaki Miyauchi, Spirited Away
  • Georgia Nosal, The Artist
Best Off-West End Production Best Regional Production
  • 42 Balloons
  • The Artist
  • Becoming Nancy
  • Brassed Off
  • Dear Evan Hansen
  • Oliver!
Best Concert Event Best West End Show
  • Gypsy the Musical in Concert
  • I Am Harvey Milk
  • Pippin – 50th Anniversary Concert
  • Something Rotten! – In Concert
  • Sondheim on Sondheim
  • Spring Awakening: 15th Anniversary Concert
Special Award: Services to UK Theatre

Productions with multiple accolades

Multiple nominations

  • 9 nominations: Starlight Express
  • 6 nominations: The Artist, Macbeth
  • 5 nominations: Fiddler on the Roof, Oliver!, Spirited Away
  • 4 nominations: The Devil Wears Prada, Mean Girls, Why Am I So Single?
  • 3 nominations: Cabaret, Hadestown, Hello, Dolly!, Mamma Mia!, MJ the Musical, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Romeo and Juliet, Waiting for Godot
  • 2 nominations: Bhangra Nation, Brace Brace, Brassed Off, The Buddha of Suburbia, Coriolanus, The Crucible, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Dear Evan Hansen, Giant, Hamilton, Kiss Me, Kate, Kyoto, Maggie and Me, Nye, Oedipus, Princess Essex, Punch, A Raisin in the Sun, The Years

References

  1. "WhatsOnStage Awards return to the London Palladium for 2025". West End Theatre. 4 October 2024. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  2. Wood, Alex (7 November 2024). "Nominations open for the 25th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards". WhatsOnStage. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  3. Millward, Tom (5 December 2024). "25th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards: full list of nominees". WhatsOnStage. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  4. Gumushan, Tamyel (3 December 2024). "Molly Lynch, David Seadon-Young and Minal Patel to announce the 25th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards nominees". WhatsOnStage. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
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