Joseph tour with Joe McElderry extends with a Christmas season at Newcastle’s Metro Radio Arena
Theatre news
JOE McElderry will return home this Christmas in his celebrated and critically acclaimed role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
The musical will run at Newcastle’s prestigious Metro Radio Arena for a strictly limited Christmas season from December 19 to December 31, 2017.
This special Christmas homecoming will complete McElderry’s hugely successful year touring the UK playing the title-role – his first major theatrical appearance which has been met with Five Star reviews and standing ovations up and down the country.
It also follows the release of his new recording of the Joseph soundtrack which reached the top of the Amazon Musical Soundtrack Charts; his top 5 entry in the official charts with his new hit single Gloria, released last month; as well as the announcement of his highly anticipated fifth album Saturday Night at the Movies and supporting concert The Gloria Tour this summer.
McElderry said: “I am so excited to be bringing this wonderful show back home for Christmas! I have had an amazing year touring with Joseph so far and we have had fantastic audiences, so to bring it back to the north east in Newcastle over Christmas is very special and is really the icing on the cake to an already fantastic year! I cannot wait to see everyone at the shows over the festive period.”
The UK tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat has also just extended into the Autumn and will open at the Southend Cliffs Pavilion on Tuesday, September 5 before visiting Woking, Dunfermline, Lowestoft, Liverpool, Richmond (October 10 – 14), Manchester, Stoke, Hull and Swansea, with more dates to be announced. Read our New Wimbledon Theatre review.
McElderry, who hails from South Shields, Tyne and Wear, was just 18 when he won the sixth series of The X Factor, having been mentored by Girls Aloud star Cheryl Cole. He soared to number one on the UK Singles Charts with his rendition of Miley Cyrus’s The Climb and his debut album Wide Awake went straight in at number 3 on the UK Albums Chart. He has since gone on to have two more Top 10 albums.