Fifth-placed Craig Chalmers was cast by Bill Kenwright as Joseph in a touring version of Joseph^[9] from 20 August 2007, when the tour was due to have its first night in Bromley, London, less than 24 km (about 15 miles) from the Adelphi, where Kenwright was co-producer. In Chalmers' last week before viewers voted him off the search-for-a-star, Kenwright had told him: "You wowed the audience and please God you are here next week for the semi-final."^[10] Chris Barton will also play Benjamin on the tour and Joseph / the narrator at some matinees during the run. Kenwright has also employed Chris Crosby on his new national tour of Half a Sixpence, opening on 28 August 2007 at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley.

Keith Jack has now joined the cast of the touring Joseph production with Craig and Chris Barton. He is playing the Narrator, a part usually played by a woman, though it was originally written for a male voice. His first official performance was to be 1st October in Plymouth, although he has performed a couple of the final shows in High Wycombe on 28th and 29th September. He is recording an album to be released in early 2008, with a single from it issued in time for Christmas.

Lewis Bradley has since been contracted by Lloyd Webber to play Joseph at the Adelphi Theatre during Mead's holiday absence, and possibly an additional performance a week to commence soon. Meanwhile Ben James-Ellis (new stage name for Equity purposes) has landed the role of Link Larkin in the UK premiere of Hairspray: The Musical at the Shaftesbury Theatre from 11 October 2007. Daniel Boys has gone on to land many roles including performing in the Royal Festival Hall's concert production of Sweeney Todd, Landor Theatre's I Love You Because and Avenue Q at the Noel Coward Theatre. He also took part in the cabaret If You've Got It Flaunt It at the West End's Trafalgar Studios in September 2007.

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Criticism

In an interview with The Stage, the then-recently eliminated Daniel Boys questioned Andrew Lloyd Webber's stated aim of casting a Joseph outside the stereotype, "who's a bit of a Justin Timberlake, tiny touch of the Michael Jacksons and a bit of the Jude Laws,"^[11] by pointing out that so far all the Josephs that were a bit outside of the traditional mould have been eliminated for exactly that reason.^[12]

In a brief interview with The Guardian, theatrical actress Elaine Paige named Any Dream Will Do as the greatest threat to theatre today, saying that "actors already striving in the theatre wouldn't dream of putting themselves on these shows".^[13] But the winner of Any Dream Will Do and the part of Joseph, Lee Mead, who had quit his role in the ensemble at The Phantom of the Opera and understudying the part of Raoul, had told The Stage: "Those chances don’t come up very often – so I thought I would go along and see what happened. When I got to last 12, I had to make the decision to stay with Phantom or go with the programme. I am a strong believer that you need to take risks in your career and that is what has brought me this far...Friends in the industry were surprised because I may have got my first lead from Phantom. But I never knew if that would come and when that would be."^[14]

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References

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External links

• Any Dream Will Do at bbc.co.uk
• The Stage on Any Dream Will Do
• Unreality TV on Any Dream Will Do
• Any Dream Will Do at What's on TV
• Any Dream Will Do at the Internet Movie Database
• Any Dream Will Do at TV.com