4/5
Expectation is high for Lloyd Webber’s forthcoming Cinderella, but in the meantime this revival strikes just the right note
28 July 2021 • 11:00pm
Jac Yarrow and co in Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the London Palladium
Credit: Tristram Kenton
His beleaguered Cinderella may be yet to hit the stage – it’s currently scheduled to do so on August 18 – but Andrew Lloyd Webber has still managed to get two shows off the ground this week. Phantom has returned to Her Majesty s, and Joseph, which Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote as larky twentysomethings in the late Sixties, is at the Palladium. Laurence Connor’s production (one of countless revivals over the years) was first seen in 2019, with Jason Donovan here reprising his role as the Pharaoh and Alexandra Burke replacing Sheridan Smith as the narrator.