Any Dream Finalists Announced; Grease TV Series Debuts

BBC reports 6-million people watched the announcement of the 12 finalists for Any Dream Will Do, a new reality TV-show hunting for the lead of the new West End production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. 

Any Dream Will Do is hosted by Graham Norton and airs on BBC One.  The finalists, handpicked by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and his panel of experts, were revealed to the voting-public on Saturday night's show.

They include Antony Hansen (17); Ben Ellis (18); Chris Barton (19); Keith Jack (19); Chris Crosby (18); Johndeep More (23); Robert McVeigh (23); Craig Chalmers (25); Daniel Boys (27); Lee Mead (25); Seamus Cullen (35); and Lewis Bradley (17).

"Over the next eight weeks, they will perform for Andrew Lloyd Webber and his panel – Denise Van Outen, theatre producer Bill Kenwright, John Barrowman and vocal coach Zoe Tyler – to prove they have the ability to make it onto the stage," reports BBC.

For more information on Any Dream Will Do visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/joseph. 

Additionally, BBC reports 4-million people watched the debut of Grease Is The Word Saturday on ITV 1.

ITV's Grease Is The Word – whose judges include 1980s star Sinitta and David Gest – aims to fill the parts of Danny and Sandy in a new West End stage production of Grease set to open next summer.  Much like the American television series Grease: You're the One That I Want, TV-viewing audiences will follow the wannabe-stars from their original auditions to the finals where eight couples will compete, live, for the lead roles!

For more information on Grease Is The Word visit http://grease.itv.com.

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