Celebrating Three Olivier Awards!

Former pupil Darren Carnall's night at the 2016 Olivier Awards was surely the highlight so far of what has been a fantastic career for him in the West End.

Up for a wonderful seven awards, with fierce competition from Gypsy, the UK version of acclaimed musical Kinky Boots won a brilliant three awards, including Best Costume Design, Best Actor (Matt Henry) and arguably the most prestigious of the awards, Best New Musical.

Asked about the evening, Darren said:

"It was an amazing night for the Kinky Boots team. All the hard work paid off and it was amazing to be at the Oliviers with so many incredibly talented people."

If you were wondering about how the life of an Olivier Award winner panned out after such a ceremony, be reassured that ever-the-professional Darren was back in the Adelphi Theatre early this morning to help audition for the new cast!

We suspect however that this would be no hardship at all for Darren as, on page 67 of the 2007- 8 Wheatleyan, in an interview with aspiring actress Kate Byrne, conducted in his West End dressing room, he said: "I started because I loved it, and I have simply been lucky enough to make a living out of it".

Kate's article was entitled 'Any dream can come true' and we reckon his life in the Theatre is already surpassing all his original expectations.

Once again many congratulations to Darren and the team. We suspect many more accolades will follow very soon!

Photograph submitted by Darren (right) with Kinky Boots producer Jerry Mitchell (centre) at the 2016 Olivier Awards.
Award photograph panel from Mastercard Twitter feed.