Any Dream Will Do (TV series)
| Any Dream Will Do | |
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| Created by |
Andrew Lloyd Webber Bea Ballard |
| Presented by | Graham Norton |
| Judges |
Andrew Lloyd Webber John Barrowman Denise van Outen Bill Kenwright Zoe Tyler |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 11 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | BBC Entertainment |
| Running time | 30–90mins |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC One, BBC HD |
| Picture format | 16:9, HDTV 1080i |
| Original release | 31 March – 9 June 2007 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria? (2006) |
| Followed by | I'd Do Anything (2008) |
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Any Dream Will Do, is a 2007 talent show-themed television series produced by the BBC in the United Kingdom. It searched for a new, unknown lead to play Joseph in a West End revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
The show was hosted by Graham Norton, who announced Lee Mead as the winner of the final public telephone vote on 9 June 2007.
It was the second West-End talent show to be produced by the BBC/Andrew Lloyd Webber, after How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?. Further Talent shows in the series have aired, with I'd Do Anything completing in 2008 and Over the Rainbow which ran in April/May 2010.
A similar format has been used as well in The Netherlands in 2008, with the show Op zoek naar Joseph (Looking for Joseph) taking an unknown singer and placing the winner in the lead role for the 2009 performances in The Netherlands. On 26 October 2008, Freek Bartels was announced the winner of this show.
Commissioned after the success of the similar BBC series How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?, the series followed the same format to find a new, unknown lead for a revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The series was named after the song from the musical, "Any Dream Will Do".
An expert panel provided advice to the contestants throughout the series, and provided comments during the live shows. As they appeared on screen from right to left, the panel was made up of:
The first week of the show documented the initial auditions where one hundred hopefuls, from thousands, were called back to London. This was further whittled-down by the panel of judges to fifty contestants who would enter Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Joseph School". However, two additional entrants were selected over this fifty contestant limit after they went to Lloyd Webber's personal studio for a second audition.
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