2003 WhatsOnStage Awards

The WhatsOnStage Awards, founded in 2001 as the Theatregoers' Choice Awards, are a fan-driven set of awards organised by the theatre website WhatsOnStage.com, based on a popular vote recognising performers and productions of English theatre, with an emphasis on London's West End theatre.

The results of the 2003 Whatsonstage.com Awards were:[1]

CategoryWinner% of Vote
Best Actress in a PlayGillian AndersonWhat the Night Is For at the Comedy44%
Best Actor in a PlaySamuel WestHamlet, RSC at the Barbican26%
Best Supporting Actress in a PlaySian ThomasUp for Grabs at Wyndhams & The Price at the Tricycle24%
Best Supporting Actor in a PlayRichard CoyleProof at the Donmar Warehouse & The York Realist, English Touring Theatre at the Royal Court & Strand23%
Best Actress in a MusicalHannah Jane FoxWe Will Rock You at the Dominion54%
Best Actor in a MusicalTony VincentWe Will Rock You at the Dominion50%
Best Supporting Performance in a MusicalSharon D ClarkeWe Will Rock You at the Dominion50%
Best Solo PerformancePete PostlethwaiteScaramouche Jones at Riverside Studios25%
Best Ensemble PerformanceContact – at the Queen's28%
Best New PlayThe Breath of Life by David Hare – at the Theatre Royal Haymarket25%
Best New ComedyThis Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan – at the Garrick23%
Best New MusicalWe Will Rock You by Queen & Ben Elton – at the Dominion49%
Best Play RevivalA Streetcar Named Desire – at the NT Lyttelton33%
Best Musical RevivalSouth Pacific – at the NT Olivier34%
Best Shakespearean ProductionMacbeth – at the Albery23%
Best DirectorChristopher RenshawTaboo at the Venue & We Will Rock You at the Dominion46%
Best Set DesignerAnthony WardChitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium37%
Best ChoreographerJerry MitchellThe Full Monty at the Prince of Wales24%
London Newcomer of the YearJake GyllenhaalThis Is Our Youth at the Garrick27%
Planet Hollywood Theatre Event of the YearMadonna's West End debut in Up for Grabs at the Wyndham's Theatre35%

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