LEE MEAD in Legally Blonde The Musical

West End star Lee Mead joins the cast of Legally Blonde The Musical at the Savoy Theatre.

Legally Blonde is on a roll!

The show has already scooped three 2011 Olivier Awards including Best New Musical. And now the multi-talented actor Lee Mead is joining the cast from 20 June 2011 in the role of Emmett.

Lee Mead’s story is a classic showbiz tale for the 21st Century: a chorus boy struggling to break into the big time enlists on a TV talent show and ends up a star.

Mead came to prominence by winning BBC One’s talent show Any Dream Will Do in 2007, and going on star in Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s major revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Adelphi Theatre. However, before winning the show he was a jobbing West End actor having played in a number of musicals including The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon and Tommy.

He left Joseph in 2009 to release a successful solo album and then took the title role in the UK tour of Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime. He released a second album and has performed around the UK whilst also starring as Fiyero in Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre last year.

Lee Mead is married to TV and stage performer Denise Van Outen, who was on the judging panel for Any Dream Will Do. They married in April 2009 and have recently had a baby daughter, Betsy.

And in a bid to keep it in the family Denise is currently starring as beautician Paulette in the show – although there may not be a cross-over between the two performers. Other cast include Susan McFadden as Elle Woods, Siobhan Dillon as Vivienne and Peter Davison as Professor Callahan.

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LEE MEAD in Wicked

The talent show star who captured the West End

Lee Mead’s story is a classic showbiz tale for the 21st Century: a chorus boy struggling to break into the big time enlists on a TV talent show and ends up a star. He is currently starring as Fiyero in Wicked at the Apollo Victoria in London.

Mead came to prominence by winning BBC One’s talent show Any Dream Will Do in 2007, and going on star in Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s major revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Adelphi Theatre. However, before winning the show he was a jobbing West End actor having played in a number of musicals including The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon and Tommy.

He left Joseph in 2009 to release a successful solo album and then took the title role in the UK tour of Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime. He released a second album in 2009, and will start an eight date UK tour on selected Sundays from 23 May.

Lee Mead is married to TV and stage performer Denise Van Outen, who was on the judging panel for Any Dream Will Do. They married in April 2009 and have recently had a baby daughter, Betsy.

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Lee Mead starts Wicked

Lee Mead started his stint in award-winning West End show Wicked this week, playing the role of Fiyero.

Currently one of the busiest boys in show-business, Lee and his wife Denise van Outen gave birth to their first child, Betsy Mead, on 1 May. He joined the cast of major Broadway and West End show Wicked on Monday 10 May playing the role of Fiyero,a prince who  falls in love with Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. He also begins a series of eight Sunday concerts (on his Wicked day off!) from 23 May.

Initial feedback from his debut performance in Wicked has been largely positive, with fan sites such as the Lee Mead Appreciation Society busy with reviews from his performance.

Following his performance on Monday, fellow Wicked co-star Rachel Tucker posted on Twitter that, “Lee was so wonderful… such pressure on him and u would have thought he’d been doing it for weeks”.

Winner of BBC One talent show Any Dream Will Do, Mead went on to star in the 2007 revival of Joseph at the Adelphi Theatre in London, and has since appeared in a UK tour of Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime. He has also released two albums.

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