![Jessie Buckley accepts the award for best actress in a musical.](https://media.guim.co.uk/daaae9524418c6622aca31759127ae986bffc3da/0_98_5000_2999/1000.jpg)
Host Jason Manford is keen to avoid an Oscars incident as he gets things under way:
I will very much be keeping your wives’ names out of my chuffing mouth … This is an evening of back-slapping not face-slapping.
Cabaret’s Jessie Buckley takes the stage to receive her Olivier award for best actress in a musical:
This is like my worst nightmare and my biggest dream all at once!
![Fiona Shaw.](https://media.guim.co.uk/3d00278298e007b999fcdad6b8439b39a4feb776/0_392_5915_3551/1000.jpg)
Fiona Shaw is taken aback by the huge applause she receives when she arrives to present the opera awards:
Steady on, I’m not going to sing!
Olivier winner Eddie Redmayne remembers a Cabaret rehearsal meltdown:
I was having a complete confidence crisis and one of our wonderful swings, the understudy for Sally Bowles, Emily Benjamin, came up to me … She took my hand and she said: ‘Eddie, look at me, you were cast for a reason.’ I looked at Emily and said: ‘Thanks Ems but I think actually I cast myself.’
![Giles Terera.](https://media.guim.co.uk/b1f69f28d45df73d31b585c52efd216cd64d78e2/175_201_1828_2836/645.jpg)
Hamilton’s Giles Terera salutes performing arts students and graduates:
We need you now more than ever. People will know what happened in this moment because of the stories that you write … You Lin-Manuels out there, be strong, keep going, tell your truth, change the world.
Presenter Don Black offers some musical wisdom:
No orchestrators are household names but they give many households a lot of pleasure.
Isobel McArthur, playwright of the Olivier-winning Pride and Prejudice* (*Sort Of), remembers its origins at Glasgow’s Tron theatre:
If you are a young artist … I implore you to consider the regions and especially Glasgow – that city will take you in its arms.
Olivier winner Sheila Atim gives a shout out to Omari Douglas who starred in the same run of Constellations as her:
Omari played the same character as me, in a love story opposite Russell Tovey, and I think that’s a really beautiful thing
Simon Hale, who won for Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical, pays tribute to the show’s musicians:
I write music on paper or on the computer. It makes no sound. Without musicians, it has no meaning whatsoever.