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2012 Olivier Awards: comedy sidelined as Matilda enters the record books by Matt Wolf

Matilda, the Royal Shakespeare Company-spawned musical about an extraordinary young girl, managed the extraordinary feat Sunday of snaring a record seven trophies at last night's 36th Laurence Olivier Awards. Its rampaging hold over the black-tie ceremony at the Royal Opera House came at the expense of such comic hopefuls as One Man, Two Guvnors and The Ladykillers, which had 10 nominations between them and emerged w…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 02:33AM on April 16, 2012

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