Last night, Jessie Buckley took home her first Academy Award for her emotional performance as Agnes Shakespeare in Hamnet. But, long before she was an Oscar winner, did you know that she appeared in a competition show from Andrew Lloyd Webber? In 2008, the famed Broadway songwriter, with the help of producer Cameron Mackintosh, put together a UK show to find new talent to play the character of Nancy in the West En…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:06PM on March 16, 2026