The People's Choice: winners revealed

Sixteen thousand votes later and your winners have been announced. Our theatre team have been out and about in London handing out the illustrious People's Choice awards. See what the stars and theatres had to say to their fans:

Favourite Theatre Actor
Lee Mead - Joseph

Lee told us he was thrilled to receive the award as it's his first real award. He said:
"I just want to say thank you really to everyone who voted for me. It's just a surprise to win! It's really nice to be appreciated for what you're doing. I wouldn't say that awards drive me, but it's so nice to be appreciated for what you do. It's going right here in my dressing room (places it down)...next to my rear of the year award. Thank you all who voted, its cool...my mum started crying when I told her, she was really happy for me."

Buy tickets for Joseph from £22.50

Favourite Theatre Actress
Connie Fisher - Sound of
Connie was stunned by the number of people who voted for her: 'Really? Wow! How cool is that? I've never been popular and this makes me feel really popular. I jumped up and down when I heard that i'd won.'

We asked Connie how many children she'd mothered so far during the role so far:
'Well, three lots of six, plus another eighteen, plus one, plus nineteen... Fifty-eight!'

Buy tickets for The Sound of Music from £35

Favourite Play
Equus
Daniel Radcliffe was unavailable to collect his award. If you fancy owning this bespoke trophy, send us your best Radcliffe lookey-likey photo. We'll be giving the award to the person who looks the most like our beloved teen star.
Email us here.

Favourite Musical
Wicked
We asked Kerry Ellis who plays Elphaba what sets Wicked apart from other musicals:
"It has everything, most musicals have a main area that they have done really well but Wicked is a good all rounder. It's got the music, costumes, the set and the story. The story has so many hidden messages that keep you interested.
People can identify with the friendships in the story; it appeals to everyone and keeps them coming back. One of our fans has been to see the show 35 times."

Michael McCabe, Executive Producer sent his thanks to the people:
"On behalf of everyone involved in WICKED, I'd like to thank all the lastminute.com customers who have voted for WICKED and to offer my personal congratulations to our incredible London cast led by Kerry Ellis and Dianne Pilkington. It is very exciting that WICKED has been honoured by the theatregoing public whose support of, and reaction to, the show has been so fantastic from the outset. We are thrilled to have won both 'Favourite Musical' and 'Favourite Theatre Moment' of 2007 and delighted that the Apollo Victoria Theatre has also been named 'Favourite Venue'."
Buy tickets for Wicked from £15 

Favourite Theatre moment
Defying Gravity from Wicked
We asked Kerry how long it took her to learn how to fly:
(Laughs) "Hydraulics are the magic to flying... I do fly, It's magic, pure magic. Children ask me all the time. The lights go down, you can't see anything then the towers come in, there's smoke and so many things going on, its so important that it all goes together."

Favourite Theatre
Apollo Victoria
Richard Brown, general manager at the Apollo theatre  was delighted to receive the People's Choice award for Favourite Theatre.

Favourite Pre-Theatre Restaurant
Pizza Express Haymarket


Favourite Song from a Musical
Music of the Night - Phantom Of The Opera
When our theatre guys visited Ramin Karimloo he was already looking very scary in full make up and costume. We asked him what his favourite song from the show was:

"Well its got to be Music of the Night, that or Point of No Return... this is really cool. Thanks guys.'

Buy tickets to Phantom of the Opera from £40

And last but not least, the person our customers most want to see back on the West End stage - Daniel Radcliffe

Comments

Kerry is so much better than this so its good Connie won the award.Its like Kerry would treasure a poxy award from lastminute.com when she has achieved a lot in her life.

Connie does deserve the award though she works hard just the same as Kerry does!
So well done Connie!!

Connie does not deserve the award what a load of rubbish

[laughingatyouall]

This is the funniest thing I have ever seen! Do you all know how stupid you look. Im sure that kerry is over the fact that she didn't win. this is hardley the olivier's! And just to add fuel to the fire, I think you are all forgetting the queen of the west end, Laura michelle kelly. At least she is a credible performer who has a real award to her name!!

A bit of perspective here guys. There are people in the nhs who save peoples lives everyday for shit pay and very little reward. All these performers are given gifts, standing ovations and have people constantly telling them how wonderfull they are. Im not saying that they do not not deserve that, but is there any need to argue over who needs the most praise?? You think its disgusting that one talented actress won over another talented actress?, get over yourselves and step back into the real world!

[karen montelongo]

congratulatios!!!!!

Well said!

"And just to add fuel to the fire, I think you are all forgetting the queen of the west end, Laura michelle kelly. At least she is a credible performer who has a real award to her name"

What is that supposed to mean, that Kerry is not a credible performer??? My arse!!!!
Kerry wipes the floor with the rest of them, end of!!!

Lee Mead rocks but I was a little sad not to see Kerry win the award!!!

Kerry Ellis is a legend!!!
Connie Fisher is not!!!
She was bang out of tune at the Dianna gig and as i recall outshore by a 10 year old!!!

Kerry is the best

Laura michelle kelly is a great actress too agree! they are all good actresses end of!

Nope, I think kerry is a ver credible performer and no one can play elphaba like her. I personally voted for her and in my opinion think she should have won. However I do not think it is appropriate to talk about connie like that. She probably reads this, and if you got that annoyed that I hinted that kerry may not be a credible performer, imagine how she she feels reading some of these comments. Does it make you feel good to put someone down like that? Kerry is one of the nicest people and she certainly would not advocate anyone of her fans talking about another actress like that.

What an excellent post!!! I am a massive Kerry fan and voted for her and I would have loved to see her win as she does her arse off and put everything into her performance. However having met her she is a lovely lady and I am quite convinced she would be mortified by some of the comments on here that cannot possibly be from real fans. Real Kerry fans would not do that, yes post your support for her but am sure Kerry has every respect for other artists in the west end and therefore so should you guys calling yourslef fans. At end of day it is hardly Connie's fault she won.
Anyways just wanted to say I think Kerry is absolutely brilliant and she has lit up the west end with her portrayal of Elphie!!!
Credit and support yes, insults a big no!!!

lmao - that was meant to say does work her arse off!!!

People starting to be rational at last!!!
Kerry is an amazing performeram sure she knows how much she is loved regardless of the reward!!!
I love Wicked so well done for winning!!!

Well Done Lee from the Meadettes!!! That award is as well deserved as your Rear of the Year!!!

xxxx

Poor Kerry not winning the award, she desevred ithugely but well done Connie

[Andromeda]

I think some people's postings on this thread are utterly disgraceful! Whether you like her or not, Connie Fisher is a very talented performer, and just slagging her (or anyone else) off for the sake of it, says far more about the one who does that, than it does about the victim! There is no justification for any of it!

And just for the record, I voted for Kerry Ellis too, along with Lee Mead. I think she is great in Wicked and I think he is just amazing! But that would never mean that I have to suppose that anyone else has to be rubbish in comparison! I most certainly didn't vote for Daniel Radcliffe, but that doesn't mean that I would hold him to blame because my choice didn't win! It is past time some people here grew up, except that I would expect better of a child! The meanspiritedness demonstrated here is just plain nasty!

[Soleil]

All nominated deserve praise. Bashing one performer does not raise the other up. I agree it would embarrass the nominees to see this catfighting. It is just one small award. There are others. If your candidate didn't make it, find another and vote this time. Can't wait for the Olivier Awards to settle this once and for all.

Congrats all! Especially Dan and Wicked!

[Theatre appreciator]

Congratulations to ALL the winners,especially Connie & Lee, thoroughly deserved. 100% professionally trained, even if they did come from a tv background!
There are a number of immenseley talented actors/actresses in the West End, who all work very hard in what is a very competitive and sometimes harsh world, well done to all of them.

GO APOLLO VIC! I used to work at the apollo vic and we work our asses off. Its cool that they won an award for being the best theatre cos they deserve it x

[brooke]

Radcliffe? Yep, tis nothing but a load of rubbish.

[Julie]

Well done Dan, you've got more guts and intelligence than the sniddies on here, *cough* brooke.