Lee Mead Children In Need charity appeal. The single, featuring "Any Dream Will Do" (performed by Mead) and "Close Every Door" (performed by all three finalists) reached number 2 in the official UK singles chart. "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat" opened in the West End on 17 July 2007 to generally good reviews: "Lee Mead… turns out to be both talented and enthusiastic… what distinguishes him is an attractive singing voice and, coming from beneath hair that owes more to Uncle Esau than father Jacob, lots of affable charisma… last night’s audience seemed enchanted" wrote Benedict Nightingale in "The Times". "Lee…
Steven Pimlott 1988, he directed a production of the "York Mystery Plays" which was staged in the city's Museum Gardens, against the backdrop of the ruined St Mary's Abbey, and which featured the Indian actor Victor Banerjee as Jesus. Also in 1988, he directed the British première of Botho Strauss's "Der Park". Pimlott developed a wide range of theatrical work, which included avant garde, Shakespeare and popular musicals, such as the revival of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" with Jason Donovan and then Phillip Schofield at the Palladium in 1991 and on Broadway in 1993, "Doctor Dolittle" at the Hammersmith Apollo