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MUSIC/ ADELE CONTINUES UK CHART REIGN: There's no moving Adele from the top of the UK singles and album charts. Single "Somone Like You" remains in the penthouse for the 4th week, a rare achievement for the chart. Former single "Rolling In The Deep" finally begins to move down the chart and this week falls 4 spots to #9. Former #1 "Price Tag" by Jessie J and B.O.B. remains at #2 for the 4th week also. New entries in the top 20 are "Black and Yellow" by Wiz Khalifa in at #5 and "Heart On My Sleeve" by Olly Murs in at #20. On the album chart, Adele's "21" remains at #1 for the 7th week, making it one of the biggest albums of the last several years. New entries in the top 20 are Elbow at #2 with "Build A Rocket Boys!," "Collapse Into Now" by R.E.M. at #5, "Last Night on Earth" by Noah and the Whale at #8, "Goodbye Lullaby" by Avril Lavigne at #9 and "Moon Over Ireland" by Daniel O'Donnell at #11.

THEATRE/ "BLONDE" & "DANCE" TOP OLIVIER AWARDS: "Legally Blonde" star Sheridan Smith has been crowned the queen of the West End after winning best musical actress at the Laurence Olivier Awards in London. Smith won the award for her role in the show, based on the 2001 film starring Reese Witherspoon. Her co-star Jill Halfpenny won best supporting role in a musical, while the show also won best new musical. The National Theatre's revival of playwright Terence Rattigan's "After the Dance" won 4 awards. They included best actress for Nancy Carroll, best revival and best actor in a supporting role for Adrian Scarborough. A satire on the "bright young things" of the 1920s, "After the Dance" had rarely been staged since its short original run in 1939 and was a revelation to many when it opened at the National last June. Those 2 productions were the biggest winners at the most prestigious ceremony in the London theatre calendar, held at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Presented annually by the Society of London Theatre, the ceremony's winners are decided by a panel of industry professionals and members of the public. In other awards, Roger Allam was named best actor for playing Falstaff in Shakespeare's "Henry IV" at the Globe Theatre, beating favourites Sir Derek Jacobi and Rory Kinnear. David Thaxton was named best actor in a musical for "Passion" at the Donmar Warehouse, while Howard Davies won best director for "The White Guard" at the Lyttelton. Clybourne Park, about 1950s US race relations, written by Bruce Norris, was named best new play. The entertainment award went to "The Railway Children," which featured real steam trains when it was presented at Waterloo Station. Accepting the BBC Radio 2 audience award for "We Will Rock You," Queen guitarist Brian May hit out at theatre critics who panned the musical, based on the band's hits, when it opened 9 years ago. Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera" sequel "Love Never Dies" led the field before the ceremony with 7 nominations, but won none. Full details can be found on the Olivier Awards website.