Joseph opening hit by tech glitches

The opening night of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat was stopped after just 30 minutes due to a technical problem.

Having built up interest in the new West End run of the hit show through BBC reality talent contest Any Dream Will Do, there had been high hopes for an impressive first performance.

But a ten minute break in the show at London's Adelphi Theatre was forced by a technical fault, believed to be with a rotating floor.

Producer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who also wrote the musical originally, was said to be furious over the hitch, despite the show finishing without a problem.

A theatre-goer told the Daily Mirror: "He had a face like thunder and was not happy at all.

"It couldn't have happened at a worse time. It's the kind of thing you dread on opening night."

But it was still said to be a "brilliant" opening night, with the first public performance by 26-year-old Essex boy Lee Mead after he was voted the winner of the BBC1 competition earlier this year.

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