'I Wanted to Stretc Ch Myself and Act' ; As Andrew Lloyd Webber Launches His Search for the West End's Dorothy in Over the Rainbow, the Man the Public Chose to Be Joseph Is Moving Into Drama. Lee Mead Talks to Karen Price About Acting Classes, Talent Contests and Becoming a Dad

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RETURNING to the classroom is not usually top of the agenda when you've got one of the most coveted jobs in the country. But West End star Lee Mead, who was famously chosen to play the title role in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat on the TV show Any Dream Will Do, ditched the showbiz lights to head back to school.

Last year he spent more than three months studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York.

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'I Wanted to Stretc Ch Myself and Act' ; As Andrew Lloyd Webber Launches His Search for the West End's Dorothy in Over the Rainbow, the Man the Public Chose to Be Joseph Is Moving Into Drama. Lee Mead Talks to Karen Price About Acting Classes, Talent Contests and Becoming a Dad

But while he says people were surprised by his decision, for Mead, it made perfect sense.

Today, thanks to his new skills, he's branching out into "straight" acting and has taken on a leading role in the touring production of Oscar Wilde's comedy Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, which will ...

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