Depending on your stand-point, there is good/terrible news. Andrew Lloyd Webber and the BBC are to hold another reality show in the vein of ‘How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?‘ and this time it’s to find cast members for Joseph And His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.

A new stage production of The Sound Of Music, with the lead role filled by Connie Fisher, who won ‘Maria’, is currently going down a treat on  the stage in London.

Thankfully, the new programme will have an infinitely catchier, and will be called Any Dream Will Do.

Despite Lloyd Webber sobbing into his cornflakes and mewing that Maria could have ruined him (click here to read what I’m talking about) the follow up will begin with national auditions early next year and
be broadcast in the summer.
Peter Fincham, BBC One controller, said: "Joseph is a classic musical
known to generations of school children and I cannot wait for the
reunion of 2006′s most unlikely but successful partnership – Graham
Norton and Andrew Lloyd Webber! I think this show will have huge appeal for the BBC One
audience."

Lloyd Webber added: "The success of How Do You Solve a Problem Like
Maria? this summer was a real boost for musical theatre in Britain and
I was particularly thrilled with the reaction from school children up
and down the country. I cannot wait to get them involved in Any Dream Will Do and to get
back into the studio with Graham."
He continued saying that the show would find an actor to play Joseph as well as
some other roles. "Joseph started in schools and I am looking for a
great school choir – to play in the West End, we need a smashing girl,
a great boy and of course a Pharoah/Elvis!" [Mof Gimmers]