⭐ JAC YARROW, VANESSA FISHER, TOSH WANOGHO-MAUD & MORE ANNOUNCED FOR NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE OF JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT ⭐
The new London Palladium production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat has announced the cast for its Toronto season at the Princess of Wales Theatre.
This new production will star Jac Yarrow, the thrilling new discovery chosen by Andrew Lloyd Webber himself to play the title role when this production was first mounted in summer 2019, and in its subsequent return in 2021 to the London Palladium following the long Covid hiatus, and in the UK and Irish tours in 2022.
Joining him will be Vanessa Fisher as the Narrator. Vanessa starred in the same role in the original 2019 engagement at the London Palladium. (Linzi Hateley, who was due to play the role in Toronto, has had to withdraw due to unforeseen personal circumstances.)
In the role of the Pharaoh will be musical theatre star Tosh Wanogho-Maud, who joins the Joseph company directly following playing one of the Drifters in the West End smash-hit new musical The Drifters Girl.
The 25-member cast also includes some of the best musical theatre talents in the UK, including Erica-Jayne Alden (Dan’s Wife), Shane Antony-Whitely (Issachar), Natalie Bennyworth (Naphtali’s Wife), Jabari Braham (Levi), Ben Brooker (Tailor, Guard), Gemma Buckingham (Levi’s Wife), Thalia Burt (Swing), Meg Darcy (Asher’s Wife), Alexander Day (Swing), Tyler Ephraim (Dan), Iván Fernández González (Swing), Zac Frieze (Asher), Matt Gibson (Reuben), Will Hawksworth (Simeon), Samuel John-Humphreys (Tailor, Guard), Amber Kennedy (Simeon’s Wife), Claire Lander (Swing), Abbie Platts (Reuben’s Wife), Nathan Rigg (Swing), Samantha Shuma (Tailor, Cook), Sam Stones (Naphtali), and Holly Willock (Issachar’s Wife).
This production is famous for its unique casting of Joseph’s brothers. These roles have traditionally been been played by adult actors, but in this production they are brilliantly portrayed by child actors. After extensive auditions, the Toronto engagement has found its child stars. They are Cody Black, Isaac Chan, Chloe Cheong, Jacob Davidov, Jayd Deroché, Jessica Du, Evelyn Fu, Isaac Grates-Myers, Jazmin Headley, Cameron Kuwayti, Nendia Lewars, Lavinia Luk, KJ Romani, Emma Grace Stead, Emily Watt and Charlie Zeltzer.
Joseph is the musical that launched the Rice-Lloyd Webber collaboration, becoming a multi-award-winning show performed in over 80 countries and recognized as one of the world’s most beloved family musicals. It features many songs that have gone on to become pop and musical theatre classics, including Any Dream Will Do, Close Every Door To Me, There’s One More Angel In Heaven and Go, Go, Go Joseph.
This acclaimed new production is directed by Laurence Connor, choreographed by JoAnn M. Hunter, with set & costumes by Morgan Large, lighting by Ben Cracknell, sound by Gareth Owen, orchestrations by John Cameron, and musical supervision and direction by John Rigby.
Produced by Michael Harrison by arrangement with the Really Useful Group Limited. The Toronto engagagement will be the production’s North American premiere.
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