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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat tour reveals new casting for Birmingham

Matt Slack is set to join the production

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10 December 2024

Matt Slack, provided by the production uncredited

Producer Michael Harrison has announced that panto legend Matt Slack will take on the role of Pharaoh when the current touring production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat arrives in Birmingham next year.

Slack, whose previous stage credits include Blood Brothers, Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical and The Addams Family among others, is about to star in his 11th pantomime at the Birmingham Hippodrome when Peter Pan (which he also co-wrote) begins performances later this month. He will appear in Joseph at the venue from 20 May to 1 June 2025.

He commented: “I am delighted to be returning to Birmingham Hippodrome next year to rock the venue when I perform ‘Song of the King’ in the iconic musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Joseph has a magical ability to unite generations in joy, and I can’t wait to see faces new and old, as families come together to make treasured memories.”

Further Pharaoh casting is to be announced in Norwich and Southampton.

Donny Osmond, who played Joseph over 2000 times, is currently playing Pharaoh at Edinburgh Playhouse and the previously revealed Joe McElderry will take on the role for select tour stops, including Manchester, Bristol, Southend, Liverpool, Cardiff, Glasgow, Milton Keynes, Sunderland, Canterbury, Nottingham, Belfast, Leeds, Wimbledon, Blackpool, Woking, Newcastle, Plymouth, Leicester and Sheffield.

Joining them are Christina Bianco as Narrator and Adam Filipe as Joseph, with Hugh Cotton as Reuben and Will Haswell as Simeon. The company features Aaron Archer, Bella Baldock, Daniel Bowskill, Imogen Bowtell, Taylor Bridges, Joseph Browlie-Johnson, Joseph Craig, Davide Fienauri, Ellie Greenway, Oliver Hawes, Kiera Haynes, Siobhan James, Ben Lancaster, Nicole Lupino, Bradley Perret, Harvey Shulver, Jessica Sutton, Charley Warburton, Jenna Warne, and Alex Woodward.

The production’s children’s company consists of Luke Beggs, Sofija Bele, Sidney Bond, Chloe Boyle, Coco Chapman, Charlie Cox, Max Crisp, Shae Marie David, Isabelle Chiara Dawodu, Josh Desai, Erin Donovan, Jasper Eglin, Safia Francis, Ernest Fransella, Marisia Georgiannaki, Poppy Graham, Coco-Lili Hodder, Poppy Kunorubwe, Eliott Marsden, Alex Neophytou, Shyanne Ononiwu, Rio-Blake Power, Leia O’Sullivan, Zachary Richardson, Daniel Rodriguez Castillo, Felix Schmitt, Dexter Seaton, Azalea-Belle Sharp, Arthur Tennant and Raine Williamson.

The show has run in the West End, on Broadway and worldwide. Songs included in the piece are “Any Dream Will Do”, “Close Every Door to Me”, “Jacob and Sons”, “There’s One More Angel in Heaven” and “Go Go Go Joseph”. It tells the biblical story of Joseph and his eleven brothers.

The revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s classic has direction by Laurence Connor, choreography by JoAnn M Hunter, set and costume design by Morgan Large, lighting by Ben Cracknell and sound by Gareth Owen. Casting is by David Grindrod with musical supervision by John Rigby.

After its spell in Edinburgh the show will visit Oxford’s New Theatre, Sunderland’s Empire Theatre, Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre, Nottingham’s Theatre Royal, Belfast’s Grand Opera House, Manchester Opera House, Bristol Hippodrome, Leeds Grand Theatre, Blackpool’s Winter Gardens, Norwich Theatre Royal, Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre, Birmingham Hippodrome, Woking’s New Victoria Theatre, Newcastle Theatre Royal, Southend Cliffs Pavilion, Plymouth Theatre Royal, Liverpool Empire, Cardiff’s Millennium Centre and Milton Keynes Theatre.