Lloyd Webber Dreaming of Joseph at the Adelphi???
Date: 28 February 2007
With toady’s announcement that
Michael Grandage's revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's 1978 classic
Evita will close at the Adelphi this May (See
Today's News), the theatre on the Strand – which is one of Lloyd Webber’s own Really Useful Theatres - seems the perfect choice for the impressario’s revival of
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The musical, Lloyd Webber’s first collaboration with Tim Rice, is to be cast via reality TV show
Any Dream Will Do and opens this year but has yet to announce exact dates or a venue (See
News, 21 Dec 2006).
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat started as a school musical in 1968 and was then expanded into a full stage show. It received its Broadway premiere in 1982 and has been seen in the West End at the London Palladium (now home to
The Sound of Music) and most recently in
Bill Kenwright’s production, which featured former reality TV star
Suzanne Shaw as the narrator and ran at the New London for two-and-a-half years until it closed in September 2005.
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