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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 [...]

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 [...]

Music : Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice Director: Bill Kenwright Reviewer: Jacquie Jones (aged 10) The Public Reviews Rating: Joseph has returned to Manchester, this time with Keith Jack – runner up from Any Dream Will Do the search for a new Joseph. He has now been given the chance to take the title role. The whole [...]

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice Director: Bill Kenwright Reviewer: Jim Nicholson The Public Reviews Rating: I like Joseph, I always have done and despite the fact that some songs are repeated four or five times to reach the two hour mark, you always know that it will be fun, foot tapping stuff. This ‘all expenses spared’ [...]

Music: Andrew Lloyd-Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice Director: Bill Kenwright Reviewer: Sarah Lyth The Public Reviews Rating: Joseph is the perfect winter warmer as the coldest season begins to bite. Never one to disappoint, this production is a true treat for everyone. The Lyceum hosts this show beautifully, with the lands of Canaan and Egypt coming magically alive in [...]

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice Director: Bill Kenwright Reviewer: Steve Burbridge The Public Reviews Rating: Keith Jack, the hugely popular runner-up who finished just a hair’s breadth behind winner Lee Mead in the hit BBC TV series Any Dream Will Do, donned the famous coat of many colours to play the lead role in Joseph and [...]

Three years ago he was pipped to the post in the hit series Any Dream Will Do. Now Keith Jack has finally got the chance to wear the coat of many colours and play the title role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Ahead of a week in Darlington, he tells Steve Burbridge about [...]

HAVING been pipped to the post in Pop Idol, Gareth Gates has carved himself a successful career in musical theatre and light entertainment. As he gears up to take to the stage at this year’s South Tyneside Summer Festival, STEVE BURBRIDGE finds out what festival-goers can expect from the reality-show runner-up. IN an age where [...]