Jason Donovan makes return to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat favourite Jason Donovan will return to Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre this spring…

For one week only, Jason Donovan 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, Southampton. Jason was last seen as The Evil Ringmaster at the venue in the 2022 pantomime season Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Jason Donovan:

“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. 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 Donovan came into our lives in the late 1980s as Scott Robinson in the hit Australian Grundy Television 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. His hits included ‘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.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Adam Filipe as Joseph Image: Tristram Kenton / Via StoryHouse

Jason’s record-breaking run in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in the early 1990s, in the title role, preceded his performance as Frank N Furter in the 25th Anniversary Production of The Rocky Horror Show, then Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Sound of Music, Annie Get Your Gun, The King’s Speech, Million Dollar Quartet and Jeff Wayne’s The War of The Worlds.

In December 2019 he was called home to Australia to appear as the charismatic and cunning celebrity lawyer, Billy Flynn in Chicago. Jason’s recent TV credits also include UKTV’s Dial M for Middlesbrough and Meet the Richardsons.

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. Over the summers of 2022 and 2023, he completed two consecutive runs as the Teen Angel in Grease in the West End.

In 2022, along with Kylie Minogue, he rejoined the cast of Neighbours one final time as Scott Robinson. In 2023, Jason donned his fishnets and heels to reprise his role as Frank N Furter for the 50th Anniversary of The Rocky Horror Show production in Australia performing for audiences in both Sydney and Melbourne to critical acclaim. Starting February 2025, Jason will embark on his next solo music tour, the ‘DOIN’ FINE‘ tour which will span locations across the UK and Ireland.

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. The multi-award-winning show – which marked Tim Rice (Lyrics) and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s (Music) first major collaboration – has been performed hundreds of thousands of times including multiple runs in the West End and on Broadway, international tours in over 80 countries worldwide. Today, it is one of the world’s most beloved family musicals 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.

Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased from www.mayflower.org.uk. For further information, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat