"Any Dream Will Do" TV Show: JOSEPH Revival

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 10:15am

With the success of “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?” — the television program that cast Connie Fisher as Maria in the current West End revival of The Sound of Music — comes the news that another London revival will cast its leads through the same reality-TV process.

BBC News reports that the title player in an upcoming West End revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will be found through a television reality show. Graham Norton, who hosted “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?,” will host the upcoming program as well, which is titled “Any Dream Will Do,” a song title from Joseph.

Composer Lloyd Webber as well as a panel of experts — and television viewers — will help cast Joseph as well as an actress to play the Narrator and an actor to play Pharaoh/Elvis.


Any Dream Will Do TV Show: JOSEPH Revival

Updated On: 12/20/06 at 10:15 AM

[Liverpool]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 10:16am

and i died a little more inside.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 10:16am

Any nightmare will do.

Updated On: 12/20/06 at 10:16 AM

[Liverpool]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 10:17am

although i do love me some graham norton

[Calvin]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 10:17am

I'm glad to know that Connie Fisher is getting work again. I loved her as Cricket and more recently as Jigger in the revival of Carousel.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 10:25am

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[FOAnatic]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 10:31am

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[ruthiefan_felix]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 10:32am

After watching the Kenwright production of the show last yr which is touring UK now... it's NOTHING compared to the 91 Palladium RUG production which was SO fab (since I saw it with Linzi!)
I mean... IF they've bringing back the show with the same production... in all fairness, I don't mind, I just wanna relive the show and I do sincerely hope they have some standbys for those reality show people!

[Hanna from Hamburg]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 10:38am

Tell me, if we have to have a reality show, WHY does it have to be a show that's COMPLETELY overdone????

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 10:43am

Because they know it will sell tickets regardless.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 10:44am

It is Armageddon.

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 10:59am

We only got rid of Joseph in London last year, why they feel the need to bring it back (albeit in a 'new production') escapes me. Surely people aren't going to want to see it again so soon, even with whichever annoying moppet they cast this time...

[MotorTink]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 11:03am

A part of me will always love Joseph because it was the first musical I was ever in, but damn, this is pathetic. I feel the same about the Grease thing. It makes the genre look cheap when you resort it to a reality show! What's next? Casting for current plays using reality shows? Choose the next Phantom? Elphaba? Oy.

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 11:50am

The actually could find a really kick ass narrator this way.

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 11:50am

sorry double post.

Updated On: 12/20/06 at 11:50 AM

[Copeman63]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 1:02pm

Wasn't Connie Fisher only contracted to play 2 perfomances a week, and then all hell broke loose when the ticketbuyers wanted to see "their" Maria 8 times a week?

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 1:27pm

I thought the standby does 2 performances and Connie was going to originally do 6.

[little_sally]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 1:55pm

I hope to God this trend does not continue.

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 1:56pm

Okay, I am not entirely opposed to this reality show/musical theater marriage....and How Do You Solve a Problem was a little bit of a guilty pleasure...

But why do they have to keep reviving such CRAP!?!?!

[little_sally]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 1:57pm

Colleen_Lee, probably so they can keep doing this reality show.

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 2:49pm

Well they could try choosing shows that aren't awful dreck. Or mounting an original production.

What a crazy concept.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 2:55pm

To quote my favorite bad musical, Lestat, "Where are you, God?????????"

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 3:11pm

Why wouldn't she do the role 8 times a week? It's not a difficult role and she can't handle it then I'm not sure why she was picked.

[TWSFan4Ever]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 3:24pm

ok, this is going to get old: casting the leads by having reality TV shows...

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 12/20/06 at 3:34pm

The actually could find a really kick ass narrator this way.

They could find a kick-ass narrator by holding auditions with real Equity actresses. I don't want a narrator that sings like an American Idol finalist.