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 results of the 2005 Whatsonstage Awards were:. Whatsonstage.com, November 19, 2013
Category Winner % of Vote Best Actress in a Play Diana Rigg – Suddenly Last Summer at the Albery 23% Best Actor in a Play Christian Slater – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at the Gielgud 29% Best Supporting Actress in a Play Judi Dench – All's Well That Ends Well, RSC at the Gielgud 40% Best Supporting Actor in a Play Samuel Barnett – The History Boys at the NT Lyttelton 32% Best Actress in a Musical Maria Friedman – The Woman in White at the Palace 32% Best Actor in a Musical Nathan Lane – The Producers at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane 32% Best Supporting Actress in a Musical Angela Christian – The Woman in White at the Palace 37% Best Supporting Actor in a Musical Michael Crawford – The Woman in White at the Palace 37% Best Solo Performance Caroline O’Connor – Bombshells at the Arts 26% Best Ensemble Performance Sweeney Todd – at Trafalgar Studios & the New Ambassadors 34% Best Takeover in a Role Anita Dobson – Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Shaftesbury 37% Best New Play Festen, adapted by David Eldridge – at the Almeida & Lyric 27% Best New Comedy The History Boys by Alan Bennett – at the NT Lyttelton 43% Best New Musical The Producers by Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan – at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane 43% The Samuel French Best Play Revival One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – at the Gielgud 36% Best Musical Revival Sweeney Todd – at Trafalgar Studios & New Ambassadors 33% Best Shakespearean Production Hamlet – at the Old Vic 25% The London Calling Best Director Trevor Nunn – Hamlet at the Old Vic & The Woman in White at the Palace 33% Best Set Designer William Dudley – The Woman in White at the Palace 36% Best Choreographer Susan Stroman – The Producers at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane 44% The MS London Newcomer of the Year Samuel Barnett – The History Boys at the NT Lyttelton 35% Best Overall Fringe Production Fully Committed – at the Menier Chocolate Factory 25% Best Regional Production Starlight Express – on tour 35% The Planet Hollywood Theatre Event of the Year Nathan Lane’s last-minute replacement of Richard Dreyfuss in The Producers 35%
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