The suspense of the Best Musical Actor Award was announced, and Lan Li won the award on his first nomination, winning his first Oliver Award at the age of 23!

But the award ceremony is still not over, and the five most important awards have not yet been awarded!

The first to appear was the best director.

The competition in the department was unbelievably fierce, with the most nominated hits such as "The High Hat" and "Sweeney Todd" not even making it to the final stage, with the four nominees winning from "The Queen's Summons", "The Master and Margaret", "The Mysterious Incident of the Midnight Puppy" and "Les Miserables".

After the trend of the entire awards ceremony, it can be concluded that the final competition should focus on "Mystery of the Late Night Puppy" and "Les Miserables".

As it turned out, Les Misérables' director John Codd defeated Marianne-Elliott, the director of Late Night Puppy Mysteries, to receive an Oliver Award for the first time in his career, laying the final cornerstone of Les Misérables' triumph tonight.

At the moment of the acceptance speech, John was also at a loss and emotional.

John specifically thanked the cast for their hard work, especially Lan Li, "Thank you Lan Li-Hall. When everyone refused to believe that you were up to the position of Jean-Argent, instead of being scared and holding back, you worked day and night to train and rehearse, and in the end you delivered an amazing performance that conquered all the audiences and made the play a reality. ”

As he spoke, John couldn't help choking up, wiping the tears from his cheeks in embarrassment, "Thank you for believing in me, and thank you for being willing to stand on this stage." ”

"Les Miserables" has made the Blue Rite brilliant, and in turn, the Blue Rite has also made the "Les Miserables" classic.

At this point, all individual awards have been awarded, and then it is the turn of the four major repertoire awards.

Best New Play, "The Mystery of the Midnight Puppy" reached the top without any suspense, defeating strong opponents such as "The Queen's Summons" and "Illustrious Figures", continuing the strong development curve of the night's much-acclaimed development.

The best rehearsal drama, "The Long Night, the Long Road" broke out a big upset, and popular works such as "Macbeth", "Twelfth Night", and "Once Upon a Time" all fell off and became a foil.

Best New Musical, "High Hat" is unbeatable, and the other nominated works are difficult to pose a threat, which can also show the dilemma of the overall situation in the West End today.

Best Rehearsed Musical, "Les Miserables" ended perfectly, easily repelling a group of strong opponents, drawing a perfect end to tonight's outstanding performance, and officially declaring a big victory.

It can be seen from the trend of the four major Olivier Awards, the new repertoire has fallen into the quagmire, there are fewer and fewer excellent works, from creativity to script, from conception to stage, all have entered a downturn, and the overall competitiveness is generally not strong; it is precisely because of this that the trend of classic play rehearsals led by Shakespeare is rising strongly, as evidenced by the fanatical pursuit of "Les Miserables" in the past year.

Objectively speaking, this is not only the dilemma of drama, but also the dilemma of film and television.

The drastic decrease in original scripts, the drastic increase in adaptation projects and sequel projects, and even the further expansion of the selection of adaptation objects, which has gradually become the mainstream trend of artistic creation around the world, especially under the influence of the Internet age and fast food culture, the pace of renewal is getting faster and faster, and the difficulty of originality is also increasing.

Les Miserables made history with 11 nominations for this year's Olivier Awards, and after tonight's ceremony, Les Miserables made history with eight trophies, breaking Matilda's record of seven trophies last year!

Twenty-eight years have passed since the Queen's Theatre's version of "Les Misérables" been staged, and now, the Almeida Theatre's version of "Les Misérables" has once again written history!

But, why?

Because original projects are becoming more and more difficult, adaptation and rearrangement projects are becoming more and more common.

In fact, before the list of nominees was released, the call for the "Mysterious Incident of the Late Night Puppy" was rising rapidly, and even surpassed the posture of "Les Miserables".

Industry insiders have said that they should remember to reward original repertoire and new repertoire, encourage artists to continue to create, and everyone will gather firewood and flames, so as to truly reawaken the creative ability of the entire industry and form a virtuous circle for the long-term development of the West District.

But in the end, the rehearsal of "Les Miserables" still maintained an absolutely strong posture.

The reason is complex and simple, John Code's version of "Les Miserables" opens a whole new door, showing people a very different adaptation technique, a bold and innovative way of approaching, an old tree blossoms, and an old play is revitalized.

What's more, John Cod is not just fried cold rice, on the basis of the original book, he has started thinking and excavation, injected a new soul, re-examined the classic story from a different perspective, and successfully conquered the audience and critics.

For the whole industry, this is undoubtedly a crucial enlightenment! Creation, not only limited to new ideas and gestation, can also be the secondary processing of divergent thinking, but also can be the in-depth excavation of changing angles, and truly refining the width, depth and thickness of the artwork.

Thus, the 2013 Olivier Awards came to an end, and "Les Miserables" became the biggest winner with a record-breaking eight trophies!

Since its premiere night last year, Les Misérables has garnered a chorus of cheers and accolades from the industry, changing the status quo in every way and further spreading around the world.

From the West End to Broadway, the momentum continues smoothly, and in the run-up to the premiere anniversary, the Almeida Theatre has announced a tour schedule around the world in Sweden, Germany, France, Japan, Australia and more, and a new version of "Les Miserables" has been brought to a wider audience.

Best Rehearsal Musical, Best Director, Best Actor in a Musical, Best Supporting Actor in a Musical, Best Stage Director, Best Stage Design, Best Costume Design, Best Audience Choice.

With eight trophies, Les Misérables was once again in the spotlight, setting off waves in the UK, and all eyes were on the Tony Awards two months later.

After landing on Broadway, can "Les Miserables", which is also highly acclaimed, swept thousands of troops, and unbeatable, win the favor of the American Theater Association? Can it continue its strong performance at the Olivier Awards? Can it usher in another bumper harvest of awards? Can it set a new record? Most importantly

Blue Rite Hall.

Can Lan Li continue his achievements and win the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical in one fell swoop? Can he win the four top awards one step at a time, and achieve an incredible EGOT in just four years? Can he break the shackles of age again and truly write a new history that no one can surpass?

It's a bit ridiculous to say, the list of nominees for the Tony Award hasn't been announced yet, and it's very likely that Lan Li hasn't even gotten the nomination, let alone made history for winning the award, and it's too anxious and urgent to discuss a "possibility" now, and all the discussions don't make any sense until the nomination appears.

But that's just the way it is.

Everyone from the UK to the US, from Europe to Asia, from the theatre industry to the film industry, from entertainment news to social news, all of a sudden seemed to realize the possibility of EGOT, so they shifted their eyes and joined the heated discussion, as if they really understood what EGOT meant under the age of 24.

I'm afraid that most of the people involved in the discussion didn't even understand what EGOT meant.

However, the side also proves that the topic spread in the era of social networks has presented a new scene, as the most popular young actor today, Lan Li's appeal has once again been vividly reflected, and related topics have spread across the entire network.

Even ordinary netizens who don't know anything about EGOT can't wait to start a Google survey, seriously start to understand the background information, and really read all the ins and outs, lest they fall behind the tide of the times, be excluded from the heated discussion, and can't keep up.

It is rare to see that the Olivier Awards and Tony Awards have also bloomed with a light comparable to the awards season, which has sparked heated discussions in the whole society!

In this regard, the "New Yorker" wrote a special report, which carried out an in-depth analysis and discussion, and they called this phenomenon the "young master effect".

"Ranley-Hall, the name is becoming a sign of the times.

It signifies talent and concentration, single-mindedly devoted to the pursuit and struggle of a specific cause, and in the name of dreams, moths bloom like fire.

It marks that there is no distraction and all-out, every work is a guarantee of quality, every performance is a guarantee of expectation, and a strong appeal is forming a phenomenal wave.

It also marks maturity, wisdom and elegance, calm self-control in the bustling Vanity Fair, refusal to lose oneself, refusal to self-indulgence, and always maintain a pure heart.

Just when everyone is marveling at the birth of miracles, from TV to movies, from music to theater, Lan Li reinterprets the meaning of an actor, and labels the term "actor's profession and dream" with his own definition, but Lan Li has put down the past, looked forward to the future, returned to his own work again, and started again in a down-to-earth manner.

Interestingly, this is an Internet era, impetuousness, eagerness, restlessness, apprehension, and turmoil, these are the key words, but Lan Li is slowing down, slowing down the pace, lightening the weight, and stepping out of a path of his own. This is not his time, but it is his time.

To borrow a quote from Ranley Hall above the Olivier Awards: Thank God I really am an actor. ”