Review Roundup: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT UK Tour Featuring Donny Osmond

Performances are now underway for the UK tour of the London Palladium production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, featuring Donny Osmond as Pharaoh (Edinburgh only), Christina Bianco as Narrator and Adam Filipe as Joseph. The 2025 tour began performances at the Edinburgh Playhouse for a Christmas season on 3 December and plays in the Scottish capital until 29 December. Read the reviews as they come in below!

Playing all dates across the tour are Christina Bianco as Narrator and Adam Filipe as Joseph. Christina Bianco is a two-time Drama Desk Award nominee, who made her West End debut starring in the Menier Chocolate Factory’s production of Forbidden Broadway at the Vaudeville Theatre. She captured international acclaim as a YouTube sensation with her ‘diva’ impression videos gaining over 25 million views and more recently delighted audiences as Glinda in The Wizard of Oz at The London Palladium. Adam Filipe’s credits include Titanic The Musical (UK Tour); Prince Of Egypt, Original West End Cast and Les Misérables (Queens Theatre). Concert Credits: vocalist for Lea Salonga: Stage, Screen & Everything In Between (UK Tour) and Houdini in Side Show: in Concert (London Palladium).

Released as a concept album in 1969, the stage version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is by Tim Rice (lyrics) and Andrew Lloyd Webber (music). The musical has been performed hundreds of thousands of times including multiple runs in the West End and on Broadway and international tours in over 80 countries worldwide. Featuring much-loved pop and musical theatre classics, including Any Dream Will Do, Close Every Door, There’s One More Angel In Heaven and Go, Go, Go, Joseph, the London Palladium production received a rapturous reception during its 2019 and 2021 summer seasons, ahead of its first major UK tour in 2022.

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Neil Cooper, The Herald: Osmond’s prodigal’s return is a rites of passage of sorts in Laurence Connor’s well drilled larger than life production of Rice and Lloyd Webber’s biblically inspired concoction.  ... The show’s 57 varieties of pop pastiche make for an epic selection box of ecclesiastically inclined bangers, brought to life on Morgan Large’s maximalist set by way of Joann M. Hunter’s slick choreography. Vintage sounding showtunes, a barn dance hoedown, French chanson and even an energetic cheerleader routine are all in the mix.

Allan Crow, Fife Today: Adding a star headliner doesn’t always deliver all you hope for. In Donny’s case it is more than just the icing on a cake - he is sensational, giving his role everything and working the audience with effortless ease and incredible charm. They were up and out of their seats in the merest hope of catching the scarf he threw from the stage.

Dominic Corr, Corr Blimey: The quintessential stage school musical has never felt so vivid or jubilant; over fifty years since it first brought its Technicolor magic to the world of musical theatre, Andrew Lloyd Webber and TimRice’s retelling of the Biblical story of Jacob’s son Joseph continues to be at the top of its game even now. The enormously beloved musical, in no small part down to much of its use of star castings and timeless lyrics, kicks off a world of dreams and colour once more, this time with a golden kilt and a wink, as Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat proves, once more, it is one of the definitive musical experiences for all ages as it returns to the Edinburgh Playhouse until December 29th.

WJQuinn, TheQR: I, for one, can live with a beautifully produced show, out to entertain at any cost. From the opening strains of ‘Any Dream Will Do’ to the final, full-powered mini-concert ‘Joseph Megamix’, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a joy to experience.

Lindsay Corr, Edinburgh Guide: Receiving a deservedly rapturous reception, the occasional missed lyric or two due to sound or muffled vocal barely matters as exuberance takes charge in a family show that’s eager to deliver a joyous experience for its audience - and indeed it does.

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