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Joseph
and the Technicolour Dreamcoat is enjoying a successful Easter holiday
run at the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon until Saturday 10th April.
However,
if you catch the show before it ends, you will see a different actor
playing the title role than the one you were expecting. Original
Joseph, Andrew Derbyshire, dislocated his knee so actor-singer Mike
Holoway stepped in at the eleventh hour.
Mike
has played Joseph in various productions of the show over the years.
He is a stage musical veteran having appeared in Grease and Pirates
of Penzance during his career.
He
was also one of the faces of the seventies. Mike played drums
and sang in teen heartthrob band Flintlock who also had their own
TV series.
Cult
TV fans will remember him well for his long-running role in ITV's
The Tomorrow People. The
series which ran between 1973-79 told the story of a group of teenagers
with telepathic abilities who fought aliens and lived in a spaceship
buried underground.
BBC
Wiltshire chatted to Mike about his varied career which you can
listen to in streaming Real Audio by clicking the links below.
Mike
on joining this production of Joseph at short notice
How
he often gets asked to return to the role.
Mike
on his favourite stage musical roles
Does
Joseph come out on top?
Mike
on Flintlock
On playing
in the band who were the seventies answer to Take That!
Mike
on revisiting The Tomorrow People for the DVDs
Did the memories come flooding back?
Mike
on The Tomorrow People's similarity to Doctor Who
And why cult television is so popular.
Mike
on not appearing in the recent Tomorrow People audios
Where was Mike when they were recorded?
Mike
on the funny things that happened on set
Who made him 'corpse' the most?
Mike
Holoway is appearing in the title role in Joseph and the Technicolour
Dreamcoat which runs at the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon until Saturday
April 10th. For more information contact the box office on 01793
524481.
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