Debut
Her London West End debut as Tracy Turnblad in the musical Hairspray won her a Laurence Olivier Award on 9 March 2008 for Best Actress in a Musical. She had previously won the Theatregoer's Choice Awards for Best Actress in a musical for the same role. And also the Critics Circle Award 2008 for Most Promising Newcomer. Leanne was also nominated in 2009 for a Glamour Woman of the Year Award, for best actress.
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“One should never make one’s debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one’s old age.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Had I been less resolved to work, I would perhaps had made an effort to begin immediately. But since my resolution was formal and before twenty four hours, in the empty slots of the next day where everything fit so nicely because I was not yet there, it was better not to choose a night at which I was not well-disposed for a debut to which the following days proved, alas, no more propitious.... Unfortunately, the following day was not the exterior and vast day which I had feverishly awaited.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)