It’s hard to single out the best moment of the 67th Evening Standard Theatre Awards, co-hosted by the Standard’s owner Lord Lebedev and Ian McKellen at Claridge’s last night. Was it when Nicole Scherzinger said “I’m low-key crapping myself right now” on accepting her Best Musical Performance Award for Sunset Boulevard?
Was it Sir Sam Mendes describing the theatre world as the family he never had growing up? Patsy Ferran and Anjana Vasan hearing they’d jointly won the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress, for their performances as sisters Blanche and Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire? Elton John declaring it “the gayest moment ever” when he was presented with a special award by Boy George and Jake Shears.
