European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes faces n places tuesday april 19,1994 fhe Afef awards from wire reports Arcadia by Tom Stoppard and City of Angels a Roadway hit but a Flop in London s West end were named the year s Best play and Best musical sunday atthe annual Laurence Olivier awards in London. And sir John Gielgud the renowned shakespearean actor who turned 90 last week will have a theater named after him it was announced. The renamed Thea Ter will open in the fall with a production of Hamlet. City of Angels beat Andrew Lloyd Webber Sunset Boulevard in an award full of sentiment for a show loved by critics and theater insiders but not by Londo audiences on Broadway the musical pastiche of 1940s Hollywood ran two years and won the Tony award Butin London it barely lasted six months before closing last fail. A \. V.,.the Royal National theater was the evening s big Winner with nine awards for its various productions including Arcadia Stoppard s witty comedy about love physics and landscape gardening. A National theater staging of Stephen Sondheim s11979 musical Sweeney Todd won four awards including Best musical revival Best director of a musical de clan Donnell Anand Best actor and actress in a musical for Alun Armstrong and Julia Mckenzie. A rare production of american dramatist Sophi Treadwell s 1928 drama machinal about a Young woman who kills her wealthy older husband won four awards including Best revival of a play and Best actress Fiona Shaw and Best director of a play Stephen Dai dry. A Mark Rylance was named Best actor in a play for his performance As Benedick in William Shakespeare Smuch ado about nothing a rare presentation of Shakespeare in the commercial West end. Best actor in a supporting role went to american Joseph Mydell a native of Georgia in american writer Tony Kushner s play perestroika Best actress in a supporting role went to Helen Burns for another american play Arthur Miller s the Las Yankee. The Best choreography award went to Luke Cre Swelland Steve Mcnicholas for their evening of percussion stomp which is now playing off Broadway. A special posthumous award was Given to american actor director and longtime London resident Sam a Hamaker who devoted much of his life to rebuilding Shakespeare s Globe theater on the South Bank of the thames. Wanamaker died last year while building was still under Way. His daughter actress Zofi Wanamaker accepted the award. The announcement that the Globe theater on Shaftesbury Avenue will be renamed the Gielgud not Only honors Britain s leading actor Knight who is Best known to americans for his Oscar winning performance As the snippy Butler in Arthur but also assures outpacing the floods a valuable Racehorse has a lot of help in winning a contest with floodwaters that invaded the stables at a track near the Eastern German City of Halle. Thirty one thoroughbreds had to be evacuated saturday from an area that was swamped by record Spring flooding. That Wanamaker s Globe is the Only one in London. Ali donates gloves to gop Muhammad Ali made an appropriate donation to South Carolina Republican during it out for a seat in Congress 10 pairs of boxing gloves. Van d. Hipp or. Valued the gloves at $1,000 on a fed eral Campaign finance report Campaign manager Luke Byars said last week. They Are Likely to be used As door prizes or donate to other groups in Hipp s run for the gop nomination in the state s 1st District which includes Charleston Byars said.  s a grass roots conservative who campaigned for Ronald Reagan and George Bush Byars said of Ali Byars said Ali and Hipp met when Hipp was chair Man of the state Republican party in the 1980s. Turner enjoyed being bad Kathleen Turner had a great time role playing in serial mom. Or a. A ,.". A this is intolerance taken to the Hilt. It was fun to play a role that ranged from straight to Over the top. Laughed every Day. Kind of Felt like my daughter half the time you know i m going to do something really bad today " said Turner whose daughter Rachel is 6. Turner plays a Normal suburban mom until Petty annoyances such As someone s swiping a parking space make her Fly into a murderous rage. It s by far the weirdest role i be Ever played the39-year-old actress says in people Magazine s april 25 Issue which hit Newsstands monday. Turner wrestled with Michael Douglas in War of thermoses and was the sexy voice of Jessica Rabbit in who framed Roger Rabbit t every Day except textbooks a stars and stripes bookstores