Donny Osmond to make Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat comeback in Scotland

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When Donny Osmond hung up his loin cloth for the last time, he never dreamed he would one day be back on stage in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.But, nearly 30 years later, the singing legend is getting ready to tread the boards in the hit musical and he’s chosen Scotland as the location for his surprise return.Donny will play the Pharaoh during the Edinburgh leg of the UK tour in December and revealed he’s planning to stay on and celebrate Hogmanay.The 66-year-old, who shot to fame with family group The Osmonds, said: “A few years ago Andrew Lloyd Webber came backstage to see me in panto in London and asked if I would ever consider coming back to play the Pharaoh?

I told him I would if the time was right. In April, I got the call about joining the UK tour in Scotland in December and I thought, ‘Why not?’“The stars have aligned and it’s, ‘Edinburgh here I come’.

I will only be doing those four weeks as I have to return to my residency in Las Vegas but I couldn’t think of a better place to make my Joseph comeback.“The show finishes up on December 29 but Debbie and I might just stay on for this thing called Hogmanay.

It sounds like a lot of fun and I might even brave the Arctic weather and break out my kilt.”Donny, who topped the charts for five weeks with his first solo single, Puppy Love, in 1972, said it was apt he would be appearing at Edinburgh as the show had its first professional premiere at the Haymarket ice rink during the Edinburgh International Festival in 1972.He said: “This is the first time I have played Pharaoh.