The Stage

Second Joseph emerges from Any Dream Will Do

Published Wednesday 4 July 2007 at 16:20 by Alistair Smith

Craig Chalmers - one of the losing contestants on BBC1’s Any Dream Will Do - is still set to star in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat this summer, after he was announced as the lead for Bill Kenwright’s touring production of the show.

It means that the BBC1 show has discovered two Josephs, with Lee Mead featuring in the West End version and Chalmers appearing in the same role, at the same time, but in a different production that will tour the UK, opening in Bromley in August. This will produce what is believed to be a unique situation, whereby two productions of the same show, with the same producer involved - Kenwright - will be playing less than 15 miles apart, but with different casts.

Prior to appearing on the BBC reality show, Chalmers - who finished fifth on Any Dream Will Do - was a professional vocalist and entertainer and part of boy band No Reason.

The touring production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat starts its run at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley on August 20. It will also play in Bath, Brighton, Cheltenham, Kings Lynn, High Wycombe, Plymouth, Derry, Dublin, Aberdeen, Cardiff and Sheffield. The West End production, starring Mead, opens on July 17.