Funniest Performance in a West End Show: 1st - 5th Place

1st Place

Daniel Buckley

Marvin Camden

Loserville

28%

Daniel's theatre credits include Loserville (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Lord of the Flies (UK tour), Fresher – The Musical (Edinburgh Fringe) and Spring Awakening (UK tour). Next year he will join the original London cast of The Book Of Mormon as Stand-By Elder Cunningham. Daniel is outstanding as Marvin Camden in Loserville at the Garrick Theatre. He is one of those performers who demands an audience's attention. Daniel thoroughly deserves the 2012 West End Frame Award for Funniest Performance in a West End Show. Click here to read our recent four star review of Loserville.

2nd Place

Linzi Hateley

Madame Thénardier

Les Miserables

17%

Linzi Hateley was born in Birmingham and trained at the Italia Conti Academy. At the age of seventeen she was cast in the leading role of Carrie in the RSC’s production, which played at Stratford before transferring to Broadway, where Linzi received the prestigious Theatre World Award for Best Newcomer given by the New York critics. Since then Linzi has played some of the most iconic female roles in the West End. She is an incredible, versatile performer and is currently providing some much needed light relief as Madame Thénardier in Les Miserables as the Queens Theatre.

3rd Place

Gina Beck

Glinda

Wicked

16%

Gina's theatre credits include Letitia Hardy in The Belle's Stratagem (Southwark Playhouse); Maria Von Trapp in The Sound of Music (Plenary Hall, Kuala Lumpur); Kate Hardcastle in The Kissing Dance (Jermyn Street); Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty's); Wendy Darling in Peter Pan (Birmingham Rep); Rebecca in Imagine This (Plymouth Theatre Royal); Cosette in Les Misérables (Queens); Madama Butterfly and L'elisir d'amore (Opera Holland Park) and The Merry Widow (Carl Rosa Opera). Gina Beck's portrayal of Glinda in Wicked is like watching a master class in comedy. Her performance is intelligent, she holds back instead of going over the top which proves popular with audiences.

4th Place

Simon Lipkin

Lonny

Rock Of Ages

15%

Simon's theatre credits include Galahad in Spamalot (UK and International tour); Nicky and Trekkie Monster in Avenue Q (original West End cast); The Wedding Singer (original UK cast); Willard in Footloose; A Christmas Carol (Arts); Alice In Wonderland (Nuffield Theatre); new musical Austentatious; News Revue (Canal Café); Pharoah in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (New London) and Leopold in Never The Sinner (Kenneth Moore Theatre). Simon is the glue who holds Rock Of Ages together with his hilarious performance. He leaves audiences in stitches of laughter night after night.

5th Place

Jodie Prenger

Dolly

One Man, Two Guvnors

10%

Jodie's theatre credits include playing Lady of the Lake in Spamalot and Nancy in Oliver after winning Andrew Lloyd Webber's reality programme I'll Do Anything. She is one of the nation's most loved theatre stars. One West End Frame reader wrote on the comments section of the voting page "The award has to go to Jodie Prenger. She is absolutely hilarious in One Man, Two Guvnors. Her kicking and screaming tantrum on the floor and her comedic timing is second to none."

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