BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT’s Lucy Kay will return as the Narrator in the upcoming 2017 touring production of JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, starring X FACTOR winner Joe McElderry, from 24th January.
Lucy Kay scored her first number one album in 2014, after her stunning debut album ‘Fantasia’ shot straight to the top of the Classical Album Chart. The singer, originally from Leicestershire, shot to fame and captured the country’s hearts as runner up on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ in 2014. Following her success on the show, Lucy also recorded the song ‘Flower of Scotland’ with the band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Navy. Lucy was also a special guest on Andrea Bocelli’s 2014 tour.
As previously announced singing sensation and X Factor favourite JOE McELDERRY will once again wear the world’s most famous coat in the UK’s longest running musical, as the 2017 national tour kicks off at GLive, Guildford in Januar.Joe’s title-role debut in the 2016 production of Joseph was his first major theatrical appearance – and his performance was met with 5-star reviews and standing ovations up and down the country.
Joe McElderry was just 18 when he won the sixth series of ‘The X Factor’ having been mentored by Girls Aloud star Cheryl Cole and beating off fierce competition from Olly Murs and Stacey Solomon. Joe soared to number one on the UK Singles Charts with his rendition of Miley Cyrus’s The Climb and his debut album Wide Awake went straight in at number 3 on the UK Albums Chart. He has since gone on to have two more Top 10 albums, and he became the first X Factor star to release four albums.
Joe, who hails from South Shields, Tyne and Wear, is also the first and only celebrity to win three reality TV shows! He was crowned the winner of the second series of ITV’s ‘Popstar to Operastar’ before strapping on his skis and slaloming his way to become champion of Channel 4’s celebrity ski competition ‘The Jump’ in 2014.
“BILL KENWRIGHT’S PRODUCTION –
THE LONGEST-RUNNING TOURING SHOW IN HISTORY, NOW IN ITS 36TH UNSTOPPABLE YEAR – REMAINS AN IRREPRESSIBLE DELIGHT…
JOE MCELDERRY MAY JUST BE THE BEST SUNG JOSEPH THERE’S EVER BEEN”
Mark Shenton
★★★★★
The Stage
Joining them is Benjamin James-Ellis who was a semi-finalist on the hit TV show Any Dream Will Do. Since then Ben has starred in a European tour of Dirty Dancing, and as Link Larkin in the West End run of Hairspray for two years. The cast is completed by Henry Metcalfe, Sallie-Beth Lawless, Matt Jolly, Darren Charles, Lloyd Green, Matthew McCabe, George Knapper, Michael Lapham, Michael Colbourne, Lewis Asquith, Richard J Hunt, Amana Jones, Will Breckin, Kevin Grogan and Gemma Pipe.
Having garnered sensational reviews and standing ovations at every performance since its inception over 36 years ago, Bill Kenwright’s ‘amazing’, ‘superb’, ‘wonderful’ and ‘brilliant’ production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s family musical has now sold an estimated 20 million tickets is crammed wall to wall with hits, including Jacob and Sons, Close Every Door and Any Dream Will Do.
24 – 28 Jan GUILDFORD G Live 01483 369350
31 Jan – 4 Feb New WIMBLEDON Theatre 0844 871 7646
7 – 11 Feb DARTFORD Orchard Theatre 01322 220000
14 – 18 Feb HASTINGS White Rock Theatre 01424 462288
21 – 25 Feb TORQUAY Princess Theatre 0844 871 3023
28 Feb – 4 Mar PORTSMOUTH New Theatre Royal 023 9264 9000
7 – 11 Mar WINDSOR Theatre Royal 01753 853 888
14 – 18 Mar EDINBURGH Playhouse 0844 871 3014
21 – 25 Mar MALVERN Festival Theatre 01684 892 277
28 Mar – 1 Apr SHREWSBURY Severn Theatre 01743 281281
4 – 8 Apr BRADFORD Alhambra Theatre 01274 432000
11 – 15 Apr SKEGNESS Embassy Theatre 01507 613100
18 – 22 Apr PRESTON Charter Theatre 01772 80 44 44
25 – 29 Apr NOTTINGHAM Theatre Royal 0115 989 5555
2 – 6 May BRISTOL Hippodrome 0844 871 3012
9 – 13 May CARDIFF Wales Millennium Centre 029 2063 6464
16 – 20 May TRURO Hall for Cornwall 01507 613100
23 – 27 May STOCKPORT Plaza Theatre 0161 480 3818
30 May – 3 Jun LONDONDERRY Millennium Forum 028 7126 4455 millenniumforum.co.uk
6 – 10 Jun BELFAST Grand Opera House 028 9024 1919
13 – 17 Jun CHELTENHAM Everyman Theatre 01242 572573 everymantheatre.org.uk
It is a brutally honest look at a man, from his boyhood to his diagnosis of Parkinson’s. Fox, who is 80, doesn’t falter in this difficult part where he moves between verse and script seamlessly and gives off a lot of energy (even for a man who is sitting down a lot). Whitemore’s script is rich in its imagery; you can imagine all the people in Betjeman’s life from his father, his wife, his father-in-law and his long term partner.
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