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New musical Redwood, starring Idina Menzel, was also entirely shut out, as was another musical, The Last Five Years, starring Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren.

"I couldn't believe it," said her nan, Adrienne Atkin.

From the start, her innovative thinking on form connected her more to the theatrical traditions of Adrienne Kennedy and Richard Foreman than those of Lorraine Hansberry and August Wilson.

Mr Siegel's wife, Adrienne, said "there's no one happier than me" as she was filmed getting into a car to go and meet her husband.

Adrienne Lett had gone to bed around 10 p.m., but was awakened by a banging noise sometime after 4 a.m.