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Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice Director: Bill Kenwright Reviewer: Paul Downham The Public Reviews Rating: What can you possibly say about Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat that has not been said before? Joseph was the first professional musical theatre show my parents took me to as a child and consequently started my love for [...]

Music & Lyrics: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice Director: Bill Kenwright Reviewer: Katy Evans The Public Reviews Rating: Bill Kenwright’s perennially touring Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat arrives at Cardiff’s New Theatre this week with Any Dream Will Do runner-up Keith Jack finally getting his chance in the loin cloth. Jack, runner up to eventual winner [...]

Siobhan Dillon shot to fame on the first Andrew Lloyd Webber reality show, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? where she reached the final. She was then offered a major record deal, followed by parts in Grease and the Barry Manilow musical Can’t Smile Without You. Most recently she took over the role [...]

Samantha Barks has finally landed the role of Nancy… three years after auditioning for it. The Les Misérables star, who finished third in the 2008 TV talent show, has been announced as the leading lady of this winter’s UK tour of Oliver! She will join The Bill’s Iain Fletcher (Three Musketeers, Mamma Mia!) as Bill [...]

Music: Andrew Lloyd-Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice Director: Bill Kenwright Reviewer: Ian Foster The Public Reviews Rating: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat has become something of a mainstay for touring theatres, it comes and goes from the West End yet Bill Kenwright’s tour has lasted for over 20 years due to its [...]

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Charles Hart/Richard Stilgoe Director: Laurence Connor Choreographer: Gillian Lynne Reviewer: Lucy Thackray The Public Reviews Rating: Billed as ‘the most successful piece of entertainment of all time,’ The Phantom of the Opera is a musical titan. Its success and longevity makes it a target for impassioned praise and criticism, but this quarter-century celebration [...]

Welsh tenor Wynne Evans has enjoyed more than a decade of opera work in some of Britain’s biggest venues, but many will know him best as the exuberant Gio Compario in the Go Compare adverts. He caught up with Lucy Thackray about his career so far, annoying the public and jamming with Andrew Lloyd Webber… [...]

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice Director: Bill Kenwright Reviewer: Glen Pearce The Public Reviews Rating: Bill Kenwright’s tour of Lloyd Webber and Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is the stuff of theatrical legend. While Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap may be ensconced for ever in the West End, Kenwright’s touring version of the biblical rags [...]