Post by Tanith Messenger on Feb 3, 2011 14:10:48 GMT
HE came runner-up in Any Dream Will Do but now Keith Jack is taking the lead role in Joseph. Entertainment Editor Gordon Barr chats to him ahead of next week’s shows.
TV talent shows have proven that you don’t necessarily have to win to have that career you always dreamed of.
When Keith Jack came runner-up to Lee Mead in the search to find a new Joseph in the aptly titled Any Dream Will Do, a theatrical career looked a certainty – but he himself thought the coveted lead role in the hit musical would remain just a dream.
Fast-forward three years and that dream has become a reality, with Scots lad Keith the latest Joseph to don the technicolor dreamcoat.
"I went on the show as I wanted to do musical theatre from a young age and I didn’t think I would get past the first round so to come second and so close to winning was amazing," says Keith, who tops the bill in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Sunderland Empire from February 8-13.
"I’ll never regret coming second as everything I’ve done since has been fantastic and, three years on, I’ve come back to play the part I wanted to play.
"I’m only 22 and looking forward to the future as well. To come so close to Lee was a big achievement for me – massive really, in front of millions of people. I loved every single second of the show and to work with such fabulous people was incredible. It has given me so much.
"You have to come out and work 10 times harder than in the programme itself."
Keith is putting his own stamp on the show too.
"When people look back and see who has played Joseph and you are part of that history of the show, it is amazing," he tells me.
"I’ve come in and done it my own way – that is the key thing about taking over a role like this, not to come in and try to be a Donny Osmond, Jason Donovan, Phillip Schofield or Lee Mead even.
"You have to bring a little bit of yourself to it and I hope that comes across."
© www.chroniclelive.co.uk
TV talent shows have proven that you don’t necessarily have to win to have that career you always dreamed of.
When Keith Jack came runner-up to Lee Mead in the search to find a new Joseph in the aptly titled Any Dream Will Do, a theatrical career looked a certainty – but he himself thought the coveted lead role in the hit musical would remain just a dream.
Fast-forward three years and that dream has become a reality, with Scots lad Keith the latest Joseph to don the technicolor dreamcoat.
"I went on the show as I wanted to do musical theatre from a young age and I didn’t think I would get past the first round so to come second and so close to winning was amazing," says Keith, who tops the bill in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Sunderland Empire from February 8-13.
"I’ll never regret coming second as everything I’ve done since has been fantastic and, three years on, I’ve come back to play the part I wanted to play.
"I’m only 22 and looking forward to the future as well. To come so close to Lee was a big achievement for me – massive really, in front of millions of people. I loved every single second of the show and to work with such fabulous people was incredible. It has given me so much.
"You have to come out and work 10 times harder than in the programme itself."
Keith is putting his own stamp on the show too.
"When people look back and see who has played Joseph and you are part of that history of the show, it is amazing," he tells me.
"I’ve come in and done it my own way – that is the key thing about taking over a role like this, not to come in and try to be a Donny Osmond, Jason Donovan, Phillip Schofield or Lee Mead even.
"You have to bring a little bit of yourself to it and I hope that comes across."
© www.chroniclelive.co.uk
