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2002 WhatsOnStage Awards

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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 results of the 2002 Whatsonstage Awards were:[1]

Category Winner % of Vote
Best Actress in a Play Victoria Hamilton for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (New Ambassadors) 40%
Best Actor in a Play Alan Rickman for Private Lives (Albery) 64%
Best Supporting Actress in a Play Gemma Jones for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Lyric) 26%
Best Supporting Actor in a Play Ned Beatty for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Lyric) 32%
Best Actress in a Musical Frances Barber for Closer to Heaven (Arts) 44%
Best Actor in a Musical Craig Purnell for Songs for a New World (Bridewell) 36%
Best Supporting Performance in a Musical Craig Purnell for The Secret Garden (Aldwych) 52%
Best Solo Performance Linda Marlowe in Berkoff's Women (New Ambassadors) 32%
Best Ensemble Performance The Play What I Wrote (Wyndham's) 29%
Best New Play Charlotte Jones' Humble Boy (NT Cottesloe) 30%
Best New Comedy Alistair Beaton's Feelgood (Hampstead/Garrick) 36%
Best New Musical The Secret Garden (Aldwych) 43%
Best Play Revival A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (New Ambassadors) 43%
Best Musical Revival Kiss Me, Kate (Victoria Palace) 52%
Best Shakespearean Production Love's Labours Lost (Open Air) 43%
Best Director Howard Davies for Private Lives (Albery) 51%
Best Set Designer Sue Blane for The Relapse (NT Olivier) 31%
Best Choreographer Peter Darling for Closer to Heaven (Arts) 54%
London Newcomer of the Year Emily Blunt for The Royal Family (Haymarket) 35%
Top Turkey of 2001 All You Need is Love (Queen's) 25%

Nominations in full

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Best Actress in a Play

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Best Actor in a Play

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Best Supporting Actress in a Play

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Best Supporting Actor in a Play

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Best Actress in a Musical

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Best Actor in a Musical

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Best Supporting Performance in a Musical

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Best Solo Performance

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Best Ensemble Performance

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Best New Play

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Best New Comedy

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Best New Musical

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Best Play Revival

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Best Musical Revival

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Best Shakespearean Production

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Best Director

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Best Set Designer

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Best Choreographer

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London Newcomer of the Year

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Top Turkey of 2002

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  • All You Need is Love (Queen's)
  • God Only Knows (Vaudeville)
  • King Stag (BITE, Barbican)
  • Over the Moon (Old Vic)
  • Under the Doctor (Comedy)
  • Ute Lemper's Naughty Baby (Savoy)

References

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  1. ^ WhatsOnStage Awards Archive"[permanent dead link]. Whatsonstage.com, November 19, 2013