High School Musical star Zac Efron up for West End Joseph role

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Zac Efron up for ‘West End’ - Joseph role
Published 9/7/2008 by Hot Momma at Hot Momma Celebrity Gossip Blog
... According to reports for Zac, this would be his dream job, so he got in touch with Andrew Lloyd Webber about the role after hearing the current Joseph, Lee Mead, is due to leave soon. Lee, 27, who won the BBC’s Any Dream Will Do competition last year, will play Joseph at the Adelphi Theatre until mid-January. ...

Zac Efron: Shark or Jet?
Published 9/7/2008 by --girl at Celebutopia
Forget “Hairspray,” this is the musical for teen dream Zac Efron. He’s up for the role of Joseph in the hit London West End musical “West Side Story.” According to reports in the Mirror, the “High School Musical” alum spoke with Andrew Lloyd Webber about taking over the role when the current Joseph, Lee Mead, leaves in January. Webber and Efron met in August and a deal is in the works. A source close to Lloyd Webber told the Mirror: “It is a marriage made in musical heaven. Zac ...

Zac Efron to Star in ‘Dreamcoat’?
Published 9/8/2008 by Just Jared at Just Jared
... is possibly looking to make his West End theater debut with the part of Joseph in the musical, Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat according to the Mirror. ...