The Curious Case of Benjamin Button won Best New Musical Olivier Awards 2025

The show is running at the Ambassador Theatre

The Best New Musical category nominees included The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, MJ The Musical, Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812, and Why Am I So Single.  

John Dagleish, the show's lead, won the Best Actor in Musical award, while Darren Clark for music supervision, orchestrations, and arrangements, and Mark Aspinall for musical direction, music supervision, orchestrations, and arrangements, won the Outstanding Musical Contribution Award.

The cast of the musical performed “Shipping Out Tomorrow” at the Olivier Awards ceremony.

With a breathtaking soundtrack brought to life by an extraordinary actor-musician ensemble, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic short story is relocated to a fishing village on the north coast of Cornwall by writing team Jethro Compton and Darren Clark.

Under the light of a full moon, something most curious occurs… Benjamin Button is born old. Bound to the fate of growing younger each day, Benjamin wants nothing more than to live a little life. But will he ever find a place to belong? Only time and tide will tell…

Olivier Award winner John Dagleish leads the cast of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button joined by Clare Foster as Elowen Keene and Matthew Burns, Jonathan Charles, Oonagh Cox, Anna Fordham, Philippa Hogg, Damien James, Ann Marcuson, Jack Quarton and Benedict Salter, all reprising their roles from the acclaimed run at Southwark Playhouse. Also in the ensemble are Elliot Mackenzie and Katy Ellis.

The creative team include director and designer Jethro Compton, co-music supervision, orchestration and arrangements by Mark Aspinall and Darren Clark, choreography by Chi-San Howard, costumes and associate stage design by Anna Kelsey, sound by Luke Swaffield, lighting by Zoe Spurr, musical direction by Mark Aspinall and casting by Ginny Schiller.

Watch Shipping Out Tomorrow here: