LONDON — “& Juliet,” a musical that uses the songs of the chart-topping pop producer Max Martin to retell “Romeo & Juliet,” dominated the nominations for this year’s Olivier Awards — the British equivalent of the Tonys — that were announced in London on Tuesday.

The musical, which includes songs by Britney Spears and Ariana Grande, secured nine nominations, despite reviews that were mostly lukewarm at best.

Matt Wolf, in a review for The New York Times, said that “& Juliet” made very little plot go a long way, before adding: “I confess to hardly being the preferred demographic for a show that clearly wants to rival the Broadway-bound ‘Six’ in the pop-anthem sweepstakes.”

“It’s essentially glorified panto,” wrote Dominic Cavendish wrote in The Daily Telegraph, referring to the campy British theater spectacles that popular around Christmastime. “Whether it outlasts the panto season, that is the question,” he added.