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Throughout an illustrious six decades long career, Donny Osmond has earned 33 gold records: selling over 100 million albums becoming a worldwide music legend. He has made history by celebrating 6 decades in show business with the release of his album, One Night Only: a live album accompanied by a DVD of his sold-out UK tour in January 2017.
Donny’s latest album Start Again which debuted in the fall of 2021, marks a milestone 65th album for the performer. The 12 track Pop/R&B Start Again is Donny’s first full length solo album in 7 years and is entirely co-written and produced by Donny. The album was directly inspired by Donny’s own unique career journey of constant reinvention over the course of his six decades as a world recognized performer.
Currently, Donny headlines his award winning solo residency at Harrah’s Las Vegas which was voted Best New Show, Best Performer, Best Resident Headliner and Best Production by the public in the Best of Las Vegas honors from The Las Vegas Review Journal. Donny’s return to the stage is an exciting, energy-filled musical journey of his unparalleled life as one of the most recognized entertainers in the world. Guests experience a party as he performs his timeless hits, shares stories of his greatest showstopping memories and introduces brand new music in a brand new and completely reimagined song and dance celebration. Prior to his solo show, for eleven years, Donny performed at the Flamingo Las Vegas with his sister, Marie. The long running show located on the famed Las Vegas Strip received many accolades during their run including “Best Show,” "Best Singer,” "Best Band," and "Best Dancers.”
Donny has notably entertained a vast array of audiences with his varied career choices. He has starred on Broadway as Gaston in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; hosted two television series on British network television; and performed at the Concert for Diana, seen worldwide by more than two billion viewers. The critically acclaimed song Captain Li Shang’s “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” from the Disney film “Mulan” was sung by Donny. The song and Donny’s singing of it received accolades from around the globe and ranks as one of the most popular and enduring Disney tunes of all time.
Donny stunned audiences across America when it was revealed that he was the very first entertainer cast, as well as the fan favorite “Peacock”, on the hit Fox musical competition show “The Masked Singer.” The show debuted in 2019 as the most well rated reality show in over ten years of American television. Donny finished the show runner-up to rap and R&B singer, T-Pain. A mere 10 years earlier, in 2009, Donny was crowned Dancing with the Stars champion at the height of its popularity with an estimated 37 million viewers weekly.
2008 marked the 50th year celebration of the Osmond Family in entertainment. The entire family made a historic appearance on Oprah, which set a daytime ratings record and made Oprah’s list of Top Ten Best Celebrity Moments. The family then toured The UK, Australia, and Asia for the first time in 27 years to sell-out crowds.
One of Donny’s most notable appearances was his starring role as Joseph in Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which broke records during its six-year run with more than 2,000 performances in the US and Canada. In 2021, Donny returned to live theatre in the iconic Pantoland at the Palladium in London, receiving accolades and stellar reviews for his turn as The Wizard of Pantomime.
In November 2023 Donny sang the National Anthem at the first ever Formula One Grand Prix event in Las Vegas and headlined a UK Arena tour that featured stops in cities such as Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool and London.
Donny’s multi-generational worldwide fan base is reflected in the 100 million plus annual hits on his official website, Donny.com, and social media sites. Donny and Debbie, his wife of 44 years, have five children and fourteen grandchildren.
For more information, visit Donny.com.
TIM RICE has worked in music, theatre and films since 1965 when he met Andrew Lloyd Webber, a fellow struggling songwriter. Rather than pursue Tim’s ambitions to write rock or pop songs they turned their attention to Andrew’s obsession–musical theatre. Their first collaboration was based on the life of Dr. Thomas Barnardo, the Victorian philanthropist, The Likes Of Us. Their next three works together were much more successful–Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita.
Tim has since worked with other distinguished popular composers such as Elton John (The Lion King, Aida), Alan Menken (Aladdin, King David, Beauty and the Beast), Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (Chess),and Stuart Brayson (From Here To Eternity).He also written with Freddie Mercury, Burt Bacharach and Rick Wakeman among others.
He has recently written and presented 50 weekly podcast chats (entitled Get Onto My Cloud) which are mercifully short (25 mins max) reminiscing about his years in music, theatre and film–playing hits and flops, out-takes and number ones.bpn.fm/getontomycloud In 2021 he and Peter Hobbs wrote Gee Seven for the Truro Cathedral Choir to coincide with the G7 economic summit invasion of Cornwall.
Tim founded his own cricket team in 1973, which has now played over 700 matches, and was President of MCC, founded in 1789, in 2002. He was appointed President of the London Library in 2017 in succession to Sir Tom Stoppard. He is a Trustee of Sunderland FC’s Foundation of Light and a Life Vice-President of the schools/cricket charity Chance to Shine. He crops up here and there in all branches of the media drawing on his extensive knowledge of the history of popular music since Elvis was a lad. He has won several awards, mainly for the wrong thing or for simply turning up.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has composed the scores of some of the world’s most famous musicals. From Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968) to Cinderella (2021) his work has been consistently seen on world stages. Before the covid pandemic hit, Lloyd Webber had shows continually running in the West End for 48 years and on Broadway for 41. When Sunset Boulevard joined School Of Rock, Cats and The Phantom of the Opera he equalled Rodgers and Hammerstein’s record of four shows running simultaneously on Broadway. He is one of the select group of artists with EGOT status, having received Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards.
Lloyd Webber owns seven London theatres including the iconic London Palladium and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Over the past three years the latter has been completely restored and renovated at a cost of over £60 million. It is one of the biggest projects ever undertaken by a private theatre owner in recent times. His mantra that every penny of profit made from his theatres is ploughed back into the buildings has meant that considerable work has been undertaken across his theatre portfolio during the pandemic, including the complete re-modelling and re-seating of the Gillian Lynne.
Lloyd Webber is passionate about the importance of musical education and diversity in the arts. The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation provides 30 performing arts scholarships every year for talented students with financial need and supports a range of projects such as the Music In Secondary School Trust and commissioning research into diversity in theatre.
Andrew Lloyd Webber was knighted in 1992 and created an honorary life peer in 1997. To mark his 70th birthday, his best selling autobiography Unmasked was published by Harper Collins in March 2018.
Director: Cinderella (Gillian Lynne Theatre); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (The London Palladium); Chess (English National Opera); Unmasked (The Other Palace); Miss Saigon (Broadway, West End, US tours, UK tours, Australia, Japan, Korea, Austria); School of Rock (Broadway, West End, US tour, UK tour, Australia, China and Korea); Les Misérables (West End, Broadway, US tours, UK tours, Australia, Japan, Korea and Spain); Jesus Christ Superstar (UK and Australian arena tour); The Phantom of the Opera (UK and US tours); Oliver! (UK tour).
He directed the 25th anniversary concert of The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall and the 25th anniversary concert of Les Misérables at the O2 in London, both of which were simultaneously broadcast in cinemas worldwide and subsequently released on DVD.
DVD credits: Jesus Christ Superstar (world arena tour); The Phantom of the Opera 25th anniversary concert (Royal Albert Hall) and Les Misérables (O2 Arena) and Miss Saigon (Prince Edward Theatre).
Awards: Miss Saigon on Broadway (Tony nomination for Best Revival); Miss Saigon (UK – Manchester Evening News Award for Best Touring Musical, Korea – Best New Foreign Production and Best Ensemble in a Musical, and Australia – the Green Room Award for Best Director of a Musical) and Les Misérables (UK – Best Musical at the Manchester Evening News Awards).
JoAnn M. Hunter has 20 Broadway shows to her credit as a Choreographer, Associate Choreographer and Performer.
Choreography:
Broadway – School Of Rock (Bdway, US Nat’t Tour and West End, Australia), Disaster, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, Broadway Bound.
National Tour/Regional: Ever After (Alliance Theatre), World Premiers of August Rush with John Doyle, Beatsville by Glenn Slater, A Sign Of The Times by Bruce Vilanch, Harmony (Alliance/Ahmanson Theatre) by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman, and Marvin Hamlisch and Rupert Holmes’ The Nutty Professor directed by Jerry Lewis. Pump Boys and Dinettes , Grease, Oliver, & Curtains all at (PMP), Nat’l tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. She has directed Debra Monk in her one woman show with special guest Ron Rifkin, Andrea Martin, Victor Garber, and David Hyde Pierce.
Assoc Broadway Choreographer – Spring Awakening, Curtains, The Wedding Singer, All Shook Up.
Up coming projects: UnMasked at PMP.
In development, Rock And Roll Refugee (Dir/Chor) The Story of Lady Rocker Genya Raven, Lourds Lane superhero rock musical SuperYou (Dir/Chor).
Recent credits: Wonderland (Nottingham Playhouse/Northern Stage. UK Theatre Award for Best Design); Violet, The Woman in White, Death Takes a Holiday (Set Design, Charing Cross Theatre); The Lady Vanishes, Rain Man (Bill KenwrightLtd); Guys and Dolls (Royal Albert Hall); Rock of Ages, Fame! (UK Tours); Spamilton (Menier Chocolate Factory); Tell Me on a Sunday (Set Design, Majestic Theatre, Shanghai/RUG); Ruthless! (Arts Theatre); The Christmasaurus (Hammersmith Apollo); Top Hat (Set Design), Thoroughly Modern Millie(Kilworth House); Tango Moderno (UK Tour); George’s Marvellous Medicine (Leicester Curve/UK Tour); Deathtrap (Salisbury Playhouse/UK Tour).
Other credits: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Novello Theatre.Olivier Awardfor Best Revival of a Play); Othello, Lives in Art (Sheffield Crucible); The Last Tango (Phoenix Theatre/UK Tour); Forbidden Broadway (Vaudeville Theatre/Menier Chocolate Factory); Midnight Tango (Phoenix Theatre/Aldwych Theatre/UK Tours); The Life of the Party (TheatreWorks, California/Menier Chocolate Factory); Love Me Tender (UK Tour); Dance ’til Dawn (Aldwych Theatre/UK Tour); Our New Girl (Bush Theatre); Room on the Broom (Lyric Theatre/Garrick Theatre/World Tour); Flashdance (Shaftesbury Theatre); Sign of the Times (Duchess Theatre); Footloose (Playhouse Theatre/Novello Theatre/UK Tour/South Africa).
Ben is an Associate Artist of Curve in Leicester. He trained at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in London where he was honoured to be awarded a Fellowship in 2021.
West End includes: Joseph and the Amazing Technicoloured Dreamcoat (London Palladium); Heathers (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Inala (Peacock Theatre); Young Frankenstein (Garrick); Annie (Piccadilly); Panto land at The Palladium, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Snow White, Dick Whittington and Cinderella (London Palladium); Breakfast at Tiffanys (Theatre Royal Haymarket); All the Fun of the Fair (Garrick); Visiting Mr Green (Trafalgar Studios); Dancing in the Streets (Cambridge) and African Snow (Trafalgar Studios).
Regional and UK tours include: Sunset Boulevard & The Color Purple At Home (Streamed from Curve), Priscilla Queen of the Desert, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Rough Crossing, Dracula, Rock of Ages, The Addams Family, La Cage Aux Folles (UK Tours); Love on the Links & Before the Party (Salisbury Playhouse); My Beautiful Laundrette, An Officer and a Gentleman, Sunset Boulevard, Beautiful Thing(Curve/UK tour); What the Butler Saw (Curve/Theatre Royal Bath); The Importance of Being Ernest (Birmingham Rep/Curve); Kiss Me Kate (WNO/Opera North), Saturday Night Fever (Theatre Royal, Bath/UK tour); The Tempest, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It (Stafford Shakespeare Festival); The Memory of Water (New Vic, Stoke); Our House (New Wolsey, Ipswich/UK tour); Sherlock Holmes, Angus Thongs and Even more Snogging (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Merrily We Roll Along (Theatre Clwyd).
International Includes: Chess (Tokyo & Osaka); La Clemenza di Tito (Opéra de Lausanne/Operade Oviedo); Romeo und Julia (Theater Trier); Annie and Chess (Toronto); The Picture of Dorian Grey, The Life, Strangers On A Train, Sweet Charity and Tommy (English Theatre, Frankfurt); Legally Blonde (South Korea); Inala (Sadlers Wells/International tour); Faust, 1984 (Altes Schauspielhaus, Stuttgart); Dracula (Singapore/Bangkok) and Voices of The Amazon.
Television includes: Quadrophenia, The Classic Brit Awards (Royal Albert Hall); The Olivier Awards 2011-2019 (2014 & 2019 Knight of Illumination Award for Best Lighting) (Royal Opera House and Royal Albert Hall); The Kinshasa Symphony Orchestra (Royal Festival Hall) and Il Divo (Coliseum).
Sound Design Award highlights: Oliver Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Broadway World Award, Green Room Award, Dora Award, Craig Noel Award, and the WhatsOnStage Award for COME FROM AWAY; Olivier Award for MEMPHIS, Olivier Award for MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, Tony nomination for A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, Tony nomination for END OF THE RAINBOW, Olivier nomination for BAT OUT OF HELL, Olivier nomination for TOP HAT, Olivier nomination for END OF THE RAINBOW, and the Pro Sound Award for SOUND ENGINEER OF THE YEAR.
West End Musical Design highlights: BACK TO THE FUTURE, ALWs CINDERELLA, PRINCE OF EGYPT, &JULIET, COME FROM AWAY, BAT OUT OF HELL, JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, STRICTLY BALLROOM, 42ndSTREET, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, WIND IN THE WILLOWS, MRS HENDERSON PRESENTS, MEMPHIS, I CAN’T SING, IN THE HEIGHTS,TOP HAT, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, and END OF THE RAINBOW.
International Design highlights: MJ (Broadway), DIANA (Broadway), MAMMA MIA! THE PARTY (Worldwide), SUMMER (Broadway), COME FROM AWAY (Broadway), BRONX TALE (Broadway), Disney’s HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (Worldwide), SPRING AWAKENING (Broadway), Disney’s LITTLE MERMAID (Worldwide), END OF THE RAINBOW (Broadway), Disney’s BEAUTY & THE BEAST (Worldwide), A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (Broadway), SECRET GARDEN (New York), CLUELESS (New York), SISTER ACT(Worldwide), and STARLIGHT EXPRESS (Bochum, Germany).
Oscar-nominated John Cameron created the orchestrations for the 1991 Palladium production of Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He is best known for his orchestral score for every version of Les Misérables between 1979 and 2006 including the original Robert Hosse in production in 1980 through the RSC, Broadway, tour and concert versions, winning the New York Drama Desk Award for Orchestration in 1986 and the National Broadway Theatre Award in 2002. Other shows he has arranged include Honk, & Spend, Spend, Spend. Zorro The Musical which he co-composed with the Gipsy Kings was nominated for an Olivier Award in 2009.
As a composer, John’s 50+ movie scores Include the Oscar nominated score for A Touch of Class, the British classic Kes and the Emmy Nominated score for The Path to 9-11.
Songwriting hits include Agnetha Faltskog’s If I Thought You’d Ever Change Your Mind. Concert works include the cantata Missa Celtica recorded with the English Chamber Orchestra and the choir of New College Oxford. Recording artists worked with include Jose Carreras, Donovan, Hot Chocolate and Heatwave.
In 2014, Nils’ Wonderful Adventure a musical in Mandarin Chinese, with music and original English lyrics by John, won a Golden Lion Award in China for Best Children’s Musical.
Post Pandemic, it’s great to see Joseph back on the stage, and like most of the music industry, John is looking forward to getting his other movie, TV and music theatre projects back on the rails!
Dr John Rigby is a conductor, musical supervisor and musicologist who initially studied orchestral conducting at the University of Huddersfield and the Royal Northern College of Music. He gained his PhD from Kings College London having researched the cultural resonances of Franz Lehár’s ‘Berlin’ operettas during the Weimar Republic. He also holds an honorary Doctor of Arts from Edge Hill University in recognition of his work in musical theatre and conducting.
West End credits include: An American in Paris (Dominion); Beautiful and Damned (Lyric); The Drowsy Chaperone (Novello); The King and I (Palladium); The Last Empress (Apollo, Hammersmith); Marguerite (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); Les Misérables (Palace and Queen’s Theatres); The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s); The Pirates of Penzance (Savoy); The Producers (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); and Sinatra (Palladium).
As Musical Supervisor, he worked on the UK Tours of The Producers and The King and I; Cameron Mackintosh’s 25th Anniversary Tour of The Phantom of the Opera; the arena world tour of Jesus Christ Superstar; the new production of Miss Saigon at the Prince Edward Theatre and School of Rock at the Gillian Lynne Theatre. Currently, he is Co Musical Supervisor for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new Cinderella, also at the Gillian Lynne Theatre.
Elsewhere, he has conducted Chess for English National Opera, Carmen Jones at London’s Royal Festival Hall, Madama Butterfly for Lyric Opera, Dublin, Carousel for Opera North and Die Fledermaus for Opera Holland Park, as well as enjoying regular concert engagements with the BBC Concert Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the City of London Sinfonia, the Hallé, the London Concert Orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera North, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Ulster Orchestra.
John Rigby was nominated for Best Musical Direction for the 2019 production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat at the 20th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards and is delighted to be returning for this year’s revival.
Biography coming soon
