In pictures: 2012 Olivier nominees’ lunch

First Published 28 March 2012, Last Updated 29 March 2012

In keeping with tradition, the cream of London theatre in 2011 was welcomed to the Haymarket Hotel for a nominees’ celebration.

Among the delighted attendees, eager to try the tempting canapés and teeter dangerously near the edge of the inviting swimming pool, were a quartet of enchanting Matildas, Betty Blue Eyes’s Reece Shearsmith and Sarah Lancashire, Singin’ In The Rain’s Scarlett Strallen and Katherine Kingsley, former Shrek star Nigel Harman and representatives from the four Audience Award nominees, Billy Elliot The Musical, Les Misérables, Jersey Boys and Wicked.

Photographer James Carnegie was on hand to capture the stars as they made their grand entrances.

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