| Laurence Olivier Award for Best Outstanding Musical Contribution | |
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| Location |  England |
| Presented by | Society of London Theatre |
| First awarded | 2014 |
| Currently held by | Alan Williams for Sunset Boulevard (2024) |
| Website | officiallondontheatre |
The Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Contribution is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial London theatre. The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976, and renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor and director Laurence Olivier.
This award was introduced in 2014 as Outstanding Achievement in Music, and was renamed to Best Original Score or New Orchestrations from 2020 to 2023.
Since 2024, the award was given its current name and reconfigured to honor librettists (book, lyrics and score) alongside Best New Musical, while other music elements (arrangements, music direction, music supervision and orchestrations) honored in this category.[1]
| Year | Production | Recipient | |
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| 2020 | |||
| Dear Evan Hansen | Alex Lacamoire, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul | ||
| Waitress | Sara Bareilles | ||
| Fiddler on the Roof | Jason Carr | ||
| & Juliet | Dominic Fallacaro and Bill Sherman | ||
| Amélie | Barnaby Race | ||
| 2021 | Not presented due to extended closing of theatre productions during COVID-19 pandemic[A] | ||
| 2022[A] | |||
| Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical | Simon Hale (orchestrations) | ||
| Anything Goes | David Chase, Bill Elliott and Rob Fisher (orchestrations) | ||
| Back to the Future: The Musical | Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard (music and lyrics), Bryan Crook and Ethan Popp (orchestrations) | ||
| Life of Pi | Andrew T. Mackay (music) | ||
| 2023 | |||
| Standing at the Sky's Edge | Richard Hawley (music and lyrics), Tom Deering (orchestrations) | ||
| The Band's Visit | David Yazbek (music and lyrics), Jamshied Sharifi (orchestrations), Andrea Grody (additional arrangements) | ||
| My Neighbour Totoro | Joe Hisaishi (music), Will Stuart (orchestrations and arrangements) | ||
| Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! | Daniel Kluger (orchestrations and arrangements), Nathan Koci (additional vocal arrangements) | ||
| 2024 | |||
| Sunset Boulevard | Alan Williams (music direction and music supervision) | ||
| Guys and Dolls | Tom Brady (arrangements and music supervision), Charlie Rosen (orchestrations) | ||
| Just for One Day | Matt Brind (arrangements, music supervision, and orchestrations) | ||
| Operation Mincemeat | Joe Bunker (music direction), Steve Sidwell (orchestrations) | ||
From this evening I must give the British people a very simple instruction — you must stay at home.
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Step 4 of the roadmap will allow productions to play without capacity restrictions. June 21 was the goal; now, the government is eyeing July 19.
Any new production that opened between 19 Feb. 2020 to 22 Feb. 2022 are eligible for categories in the 2022 Olivier Awards. With two years worth of shows set for honours in one year's ceremony, the 2022 Olivier Awards will prove tougher competition than before.
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