Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was reviewed at Curve Leicester. The tour continues until 10 August 2025. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Joseph continues to entertain with a winning combination of a likeable score and (techni)colourful spectacle.
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West End stars feature in line-up of new London concert series
Musical theatre favourites will be among the singers taking centre stage in a series of live shows at Lola’s Underground at The Hippodrome in Leicester Square from 6 October 2021. Presented by Fourth Wall Live, the series will open with David O’Reilly (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Apollo Theatre, Grease, Piccadilly Theatre and UK tour). Former […]
Daily online conversation series Theatre Camp: Live! launched
Stars from across the West End and Broadway are supporting a new online series set up to support LGBTQ and vulnerable young people. Music director Benjamin Rauhala, journalist William J Connolly and Darren Bell for concert promoters Club 11 London have launched Theatre Camp: Live! – a daily online discussion series and charity fundraiser. Launching […]
Eighties-inspired Club Tropicana star cast announced
Former Sugarbabe Amelle Berrabah will make her musical theatre debut alongside multiple TV talent show winner turned stage favourite Joe McElderry, former EastEnder Neil McDermott, comedian Kate Robbins and Wicked star Emily Tierney in Club Tropicana The Musical. Inspired by the distinctive sounds and colourful fashions of the 1980s, the musical comedy which has been […]
Hamilton collects seven Olivier Awards including Best New Musical
New American musical Hamilton collected seven Olivier Awards including Best New Musical at the Olivier Awards 2018 with Mastercard, the UK’s most prestigious stage honours, announced at London’s Royal Albert Hall and hosted by Catherine Tate. Composer-lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda and orchestrator Alex Lacamoire won Outstanding Achievement in Music (which Lacamoire accepted by singing a speech […]
Olivier Awards 2018 ceremony – Hamilton opener, Chita Rivera singing West Side Story, Joseph 50th ann tribute
Special performances to mark the 60th anniversary of the London opening of West Side Story and the 50th anniversary of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will feature in the star-studded ceremony for the 2018 Olivier Awards on 8 April 2018. Musical theatre legend Chita Rivera will celebrate her London debut as Anita in the classic […]
Musical celebration of Andrew Lloyd Webber planned for June at Royal Hospital Chelsea
The Royal Hospital Chelsea will be the setting for a star-studded musical celebration of the work of Andrew Lloyd Webber this summer. Presented by Live At Chelsea on Sunday 17 June, Andrew Lloyd Webber – A Musical Celebration With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will feature performances of some of the composer’s best-loved songs and will […]
Joe McElderry to bring Joseph back home at Christmas
Joe McElderry will be heading home for Christmas in Bill Kenwright’s touring production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. A special limited run of the show which is currently in the middle of its 2017 UK tour will play Newcastle’s Metro Radio Arena from 19-31 December. Commenting on the news of his special festive […]
Joe McElderry celebrates latest album with concert tour
Joe McElderry will follow up his second stint in Bill Kenwright’s touring production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with his own concert tour to celebrate the release of his fifth solo album. After hanging up his multicoloured coat in June, the former X Factor winner will prepare to embark on a nationwide concert […]
Joseph tour – Lucy Kay back as narrator
Britain’s Got Talent runner-up Lucy Kay will reunite with fellow TV talent show alumni Joe McElderry in Bill Kenwright’s touring production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat from Tuesday 24 January. The soprano who captured hearts as the runner-up in the 2014 season of BGT and went on to release best-selling albums and tour […]
Joe McElderry to return to Joseph tour in 2017
Joe McElderry is to return to the title role in Bill Kenwright’s touring production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat early next year. The singer, whose first taste of fame came as an 18-year-old X Factor winner, made his first appearance in the UK’s longest-running touring musical earlier this year. He will don the […]
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Blackpool Opera House and Touring
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat continues at Blackpool Opera House until 13 February and tours until 9 July 2016. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ A whole generation of theatregoers has grown up expecting to see at least one winner, runner-up or near miss from Britain’s Got Talent or The X Factor fronting their […]
Joseph tour – Britain’s Got Talent’s Lucy Kay joins Joe McElderry in the cast
Britain’s Got Talent’s Lucy Kay will play the Narrator in the upcoming 2016 touring production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, also starring X Factor winner Joe McElderry (the tour begins from 25–30 January at The Broadway Theatre, Peterborough). Lucy Kay scored her first number one album in 2014, after her debut album Fantasia shot […]
Top West End shows head to Blackpool in 2016
Blackpool’s Winter Gardens has announced three major musical productions for the Opera House’s 2016 season. The hugely successful Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will arrive in February, followed by Blood Brothers in April, and a brand new touring production of Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage in August. Commenting on the news, […]
The Who’s Tommy the Rock Opera – Blackpool Opera House
The Who’s Tommy the Rock Opera continues at Blackpool Opera House until 26 September. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Cast your mind back 40 years to eccentric director Ken Russell’s over the top film version of The Who’s 1969 double album rock opera Tommy. Well, if you can’t manage 40 years, try and […]
Joe McElderry to play title role in UK tour of Joseph next year
X Factor winner Joe McElderry will play the title role in the UK’s longest-running musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamboat. McElderry will play Joseph on tour in theatres around the UK from spring 2016 (dates and theatres to be announced soon). McElderry was just 18 when won the sixth series of The X Factor having been mentored by Girls Aloud star […]
Kerry Ellis on her new album, UK tour and return to Wicked
It couldn’t be a busier time for actress and singer KERRY ELLIS. This month sees the release of her brand new studio album (14 September – digital/15 September – physical), the beginning of her solo UK tour and she is still managing to fit in a limited run in the West End production of Wicked […]
