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WICKED LEE MEAD
LEE MEAD IN WICKED
At 28, Lee Mead has achieved the sort of breakout fame that comes rarely to those on the UK musical scene.
Three years ago, he was chosen through the BBC reality TV casting show Any Dream Will Do to play the title role in the latest West End incarnation of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (surely the most celebrated musical ever to star a loincloth).
After 600 performances, he moved on to study acting in New York, have a go at Oscar Wilde’s Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime on the road in England and, most crucially, to marry TV presenter and West End performer Denise Van Outen (Song and Dance), seven years his senior. They welcomed a baby daughter, Betsy, on May 1.
The curly-haired Mead is now back on the West End through February 2011 as Fiyero, the object of Glinda and Elphaba’s affection in the megahit Wicked. This time, unlike the male-oriented Joseph, it’s the show’s heroine that goes whizzing toward the roof.
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