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 2005 Whatsonstage Awards were:[1]

Category Winner % of Vote
Best Actress in a Play Diana Rigg - Suddenly Last Summer at the Albery 23%
Best Actor in a Play Christian Slater - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at the Gielgud 29%
Best Supporting Actress in a Play Judi Dench - All's Well That Ends Well, RSC at the Gielgud 40%
Best Supporting Actor in a Play Samuel Barnett - The History Boys at the NT Lyttelton 32%
Best Actress in a Musical Maria Friedman - The Woman in White at the Palace 32%
Best Actor in a Musical Nathan Lane - The Producers at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane 32%
Best Supporting Actress in a Musical Angela Christian - The Woman in White at the Palace 37%
Best Supporting Actor in a Musical Michael Crawford - The Woman in White at the Palace 37%
Best Solo Performance Caroline O’Connor - Bombshells at the Arts 26%
Best Ensemble Performance Sweeney Todd - at Trafalgar Studios & the New Ambassadors 34%
Best Takeover in a Role Anita Dobson - Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Shaftesbury 37%
Best New Play Festen, adapted by David Eldridge – at the Almeida & Lyric 27%
Best New Comedy The History Boys by Alan Bennett - at the NT Lyttelton 43%
Best New Musical The Producers by Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan - at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane 43%
The Samuel French Best Play Revival One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - at the Gielgud 36%
Best Musical Revival Sweeney Todd - at Trafalgar Studios & New Ambassadors 33%
Best Shakespearean Production Hamlet - at the Old Vic 25%
The London Calling Best Director Trevor Nunn - Hamlet at the Old Vic & The Woman in White at the Palace 33%
Best Set Designer William Dudley - The Woman in White at the Palace 36%
Best Choreographer Susan Stroman - The Producers at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane 44%
The MS London Newcomer of the Year Samuel Barnett - The History Boys at the NT Lyttelton 35%
Best Overall Fringe Production Fully Committed - at the Menier Chocolate Factory 25%
Best Regional Production Starlight Express - on tour 35%
The Planet Hollywood Theatre Event of the Year Nathan Lane’s last-minute replacement of Richard Dreyfuss in The Producers 35%

References

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  1. ^ WhatsOnStage Awards Archive". Whatsonstage.com, November 19, 2013