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X Factor’s Joe McElderry will don the famous coat of many colours as Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat touches back down in Kent.
Joe, who won the sixth series of the ITV show back in 2009, debuted last year for his first major stage role.
The Geordie singer was just 18 when he won the talent show, after being mentored by Cheryl Cole, and beating off competition from Olly Murs and Stacey Solomon.
He also topped the singles charts with a version of Miley Cyrus’s The Climb, as well as winning Channel 4’s The Jump in 2014.
Appearing alongside Joe is Lucy Kay.
Having been bullied at school for her love of classical music, Lucy scored her first No.1 in the classical album chart in 2014, after coming second in ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent, with her debut album Fantasia.
Since its inception more than 36 years ago, Bill Kenwright’s production with Tim Rice’s lyrics and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s music has sold some 20 million tickets and features familiar songs such as Close Every Door and Any Dream Will Do.
The UK’s longest running musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat also stars Benjamin James-Ellis who was a semi-finalist on the TV show Any Dream Will Do, who has gone on to star in the European tour of Dirty Dancing, and in the West End run of Hairspray for two years.
