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The WhatsOnStage Awards, founded in 2001 as the Theatregoers' Choice Awards, are a fan-driven set of awards organised by the theatre website WhatsOnStage.com, based on a popular vote recognising performers and productions of English theatre, with an emphasis on London's West End theatre.
The 2008 WhatsOnStage Award nominees and winners were:[1]
Best New Play
Best New Musical
All About My Mother
A Disappearing Number
Joe Guy
Landscape with Weapon
That Face
War Horse
Hairspray
Bad Girls: The Musical
Parade
Take Flight
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Lord of the Rings
Best Play Revival
Best Musical Revival
Equus
Boeing-Boeing
Saint Joan
The Country Wife
The Dumb Waiter
In Celebration
Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Buddy
Fiddler on the Roof
Grease
Little Shop of Horrors
Rent
Best Actor in a Play
Best Actress in a Play
Ian McKellen for King Lear
John Simm for Elling
Paterson Joseph for The Emperor Jones
Patrick Stewart for Macbeth
Robert Lindsay for The Entertainer
Charles Dance for Shadowlands
Maggie Smith for The Lady from Dubuque
Anne-Marie Duff for Saint Joan
Janie Dee for Shadowlands
Kate Fleetwood for Macbeth
Kristin Scott Thomas for The Seagull
Tamsin Greig for Much Ado About Nothing
Best Actor in a Musical
Best Actress in a Musical
Michael Ball for Hairspray
Bertie Carvel for Parade
Henry Goodman for Fiddler on the Roof
James Loye for The Lord of the Rings
Lee Mead for Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Paul Keating for Little Shop of Horrors
Leanne Jones for Hairspray
Denise Van Outen for Rent
Lara Pulver for Parade
Sheridan Smith for Little Shop of Horrors
Summer Strallen for The Drowsy Chaperone
Susan McFadden for Grease
Best Supporting Actor in a Play
Best Supporting Actress in a Play
Lee Evans for The Dumb Waiter
David Haig for The Country Wife
Mark Gatiss for All About My Mother
Nigel Lindsay for Awake & Sing
Paul Ritter for The Hothouse
Rory Kinnear for The Man of Mode
Diana Rigg for All About My Mother
Amanda Hale for The Glass Menagerie
Andrea Riseborough for The Pain & the Itch
Frances de la Tour for Boeing-Boeing
Pam Ferris for The Entertainer
Ruth Wilson for Philistines
Best Supporting Actor in a Musical
Best Supporting Actress in a Musical
Ben James-Ellis for Hairspray
Dean Collinson for Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Mel Smith for Hairspray
Michael Jibson for Take Flight
Michael Therriault for The Lord of the Rings
Shaun Escoffery for Parade
Tracie Bennett for Hairspray
Beverley Klein for Fiddler on the Roof
Elaine Paige for The Drowsy Chaperone
Laura Michelle Kelly for The Lord of the Rings
Nicole Faraday for Bad Girls
Preeya Kalidas for Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Best Direction
Best Choreography
Jack O'Brien for Hairspray
Marianne Elliott for Much Ado About Nothing, Saint Joan and War Horse
Matthew Warchus for Boeing-Boeing and The Lord of the Rings
Roger Michell for Landscape and Betrayal
Rupert Goold for The Glass Menagerie, The Tempest, Rough Crossings and Macbeth
Thea Sharrock for Equus, The Emperor Jones and Cloud Nine
Jerry Mitchell for Hairspray
Bill Deamer for Lady Be Good
Casey Nicholaw for The Drowsy Chaperone
Kate Flatt for Fiddler on the Roof
Peter Darling for The Lord of the Rings
Rob Ashford for Parade
Best Set Design
Best New Comedy
Rob Howell for The Lord of the Rings
Anthony Ward for Glengarry Glen Ross, Macbeth, The Arsonists and Rhinoceros
Bunny Christie for Philistines and Women of Troy
David Rockwell for Hairspray
Hildegard Bechtler for All About My Mother and The Hothouse
Rae Smith & the Handspring Puppet Company for War Horse
Elling
Moonlight & Magnolias
Rafta Rafta
The Pain & the Itch
Vernon God Little
Whipping It Up
Best Off-West End Production
Best Regional Production
A Christmas Carol & The Magic Flute
I Love You Because
Dealer's Choice
tHe dYsFUnCKshOnalZ!
The Masque of the Red Death
Vernon God Little
Pygmalion
Angels in America
Henry V
Never Forget
Sunshine on Leith
The Big Secret Live: I Am Shakespeare
Best Solo Performance
Best Ensemble Performance
Fiona Shaw for Happy Days
Lucy Briers for Some Kind of Bliss
Patrick Kielty for A Night in November
Ralf Little for Stacy
Richard Schiff for Underneath the Lintel
Robert Bathurst for Alex
The Taming of the Shrew & Twelfth Night''
Betrayal
Dealer's Choice
Glengarry Glen Ross
Philistines
War Horse
Best Takeover in a Role
Best Shakespearean Production
Kerry Ellis for Wicked
Dianne Pilkington for Wicked
Kelly Osbourne for Chicago
Leila Benn Harris & Robyn North for The Phantom of the Opera
Peter Davison for Spamalot
Ramin Karimloo for The Phantom of the Opera
Macbeth
Antony & Cleopatra
A Midsummer Night's Dream
King Lear
Much Ado About Nothing
The Merchant of Venice
London Newcomer of the Year
Daniel Radcliffe for Equus[2]
Arthur Darvill for Terre Haute and Swimming with Sharks
Billie Piper for Treats
Colin Morgan for Vernon God Little and All About My Mother
Leanne Jones for Hairspray
Orlando Bloom for In Celebration
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