Fetch your coat Joseph the dream isn’t over!
The Joseph musical, which became a summer sensation at the London Palladium — taking more than £11 million during its ten-and-a-half-week run — is coming back to the world-famous variety house next year.
Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (to give it its full title) — Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s adaptation of the Old Testament tale — played to 192,021 people, in full-capacity houses.
Producer Michael harrison told me yesterday that the musical, directed with great wit by Laurence Connor, will take up residency at the Palladium again next summer for a nine-and-ahalf-week season, running from July 2 through to September 6.
‘We’re going back to do it all again,’ harrison said.
‘It played to every single seat, across the whole season,’ he added. ‘There were people after tickets even after it had closed!’
The show starred Sheridan Smith as the Narrator, Jason Donovan as Pharaoh, and newcomer Jac Yarrow in the title role of Joseph.
Yarrow, a 21-year- old plucked from the classrooms of the Arts educational School in West London, delayed his graduation until he had completed his run as the lad sold into slavery by his scheming brothers.
Last Sunday, he picked up the Joe Allen Best West end Debut Award at The Stage newspaper’s Debut Awards. I understand that the young actor — who won rave reviews for his performance — is in advanced negotiations to play the hero from the Book of Genesis again next summer.
harrison and Lloyd Webber’s LW Theatre group are also discussing taking Joseph to Broadway in 2021 every major theatre owner travelled to production see the witty Palladium passing
I hear that the Nederlan organisation is discusssing Joseph in 2021.
The Americans were very impressed Cardiff-born by Yarrow and want the actor on Broadway, though cast members for the would be U.S. version American performers
The influential New theatre critic Ben Brant charmed by Yarrow’s voic the young Welshman ‘sings with the
whispery sincerity expected of a lloyd Webber hero’.
there has also been interest in the show from elsewhere: australia, South africa and asia.
tickets for the 2020 production will go on sale today from 10am to priority members of lW theatres; and on general sale next Friday, September 27. those purchasing tickets via
josephthemusical.com will not be asked to pay a booking fee.
lowest price tickets are £10 during previews, rising to £20 after the July 16 gala opening.