Catherine Zeta-Jones won best actress in a musical for her role in A Little Night Music, while Douglas Hodge scooped best actor in a musical for his role in drag in La Cage Aux Folles. It was a night that two acclaimed London theatres also scored big: The Donmar Warehouse for its Broadway transfer of Red and the Menier Chocolate Factory for its transfer of La Cage.
Zeta-Jones, scooping her diaphonous dress up and comparing herself to Cinderella, looked shocked and elated as her name was read out. “Oh my lord,” she said hoarsely, reassuring the audience her voice would return in time for her next performance on Tuesday.
She thanked director Trevor Nunn and her co-star, the “delicious and wonderful Angela Lansbury – I could never have imagined having a co-star of her calibre”.
Zeta-Jones, who performed Send In The Clowns from the Stephen Sondheim musical during the awards show, thanked her parents “for making me the person I am – and I do forgive you” and then suddenly indicated her husband, the actor Michael Douglas: “That’s my man, he’s a movie star and I get to sleep with him every night!”
