Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat favourite, Jason Donovan, will return to Mayflower Theatre this spring.
For one week only, he will reprise his celebrated role as Pharaoh. Playing from 13 – 18 May 2025, these dates mark the only opportunity to see Jason on the 2025 UK tour.
Jason returns to this sensational production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, having most recently starred in two triumphant seasons of the new London Palladium production in the summers of 2019 and 2021.
Swapping his loin cloth for gold leathers, his show-stopping rendition of Song of the King raised the roof night after night, ahead of a major UK Tour in 2022 which included a rapturously received week at Mayflower Theatre. Jason was last seen at the venue as the evil ringmaster in the 2022 pantomime season Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
“Joseph will always hold a special place in my heart and to return to the show in the new Palladium production and later UK tour as Pharaoh was an incredible experience,” explains Jason. “Southampton’s audiences were electrifying and I can’t wait to revisit the city later this year when I play my only dates on the 2025 tour.
“Be sure you don’t miss out on your ‘dream’ ticket!”
Jason came into our lives in the late 1980s as Scott Robinson in the hit Australian series, Neighbours.
Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, he had several chart hits, and his album Ten Good Reasons was the best-selling UK album of 1989, including hits Too Many Broken Hearts, Especially For You’ (with Kylie Minogue), and of course, Any Dream Will Do. Since then, he has rarely been away from the stage or screen.
In the spring of 2022, Jason performed Any Dream Will Do outside the gates of Buckingham Palace as part of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
Christina Bianco stars as Narrator and Adam Filipe as Joseph. Christina 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’s credits include Titanic The Musical (UK Tour), Prince Of Egypt, Original West End Cast, and Les Misérables (Queens Theatre).
Released as a concept album in 1969, the stage version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat has become one of the world’s most beloved family musicals. It’s been performed hundreds of thousands of times, including multiple runs in the West End and on Broadway, international tours in over 80 countries worldwide, and features 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.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is directed by Laurence Connor, produced by Michael Harrison, choreographed by JoAnn M Hunter, set and costume design are by the award-winning Morgan Large, with Ben Cracknell as Lighting Designer, and Gareth Owen as Sound Designer.
Tickets for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Tuesday 13 – Saturday 18 May 2025) are on sale at at mayflower.org.uk or 02380 711811.
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