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Good morning theater fans! This is Caryn Robbins with The Broadway Scoop for Wednesday, March 4th.Nominations have been announced for the 2020 Olivier Awards, recognizing productions and artists for their work on the U.K. stage. The new musical & JULIET led the pack with nine nominations, including Best New Musical. Also earning multiple nominations were the West End productions of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, with eight nods, and DEAR EVAN HANSEN, with seven. Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge earned two nominations for bringing her troubled character from FLEABAG to the stage. Winners will be announced on April 5 at a ceremony to be held at London's Royal Albert Hall.The 2020 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, awarded to women playwrights for a play written for the English-speaking theatre, will go to ENRON scribe Lucy Prebble for her theatrical adaptation of A VERY EXPENSIVE POISON. The play, which centers on the notorious poisoning of ex-FSB Officer, Alexander Litvinenko, premiered at London's Old Vic Theatre last fall. And the upcoming album Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream will be released digitally by Broadway Records on March 20, ahead of a physical release on April 17. The recording will include disco re-imaginings of over forty Stephen Sondheim classics, and feature performances by WAITRESS stars Alison Luff and Charity Angél Dawson, among many others. And that's The Broadway Scoop for Wednesday, March 4th.