Mean Girls star Tom Xander on Olivier Award nomination: ‘I’ve never been so terrified’

“Woah, that was impressive,” muttered the woman sat behind me in the West End’s Savoy Theatre, where the Mean Girls The Musical is currently playing. Tom Xander, playing Damian, had just finished opening the show with “A Cautionary Tale”, alongside Elena Skye playing his best friend Janis. “I really like the guy playing the gay guy.”

That’s Olivier-nominated guy playing the gay guy, to you and I. For his role as the too-gay-to-function high school student, Xander has been nominated in the Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical category at this Sunday’s prestigious Olivier Awards, competing against the likes of Layton Williams (Titanique), Raphael Papo (Fiddler on the Roof), and Andy Nyman (Hello, Dolly!). 

After finding out he’d been nominated, you’d think Xander’s elation

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