Matt grew up in Rhode Island and has dual citizenship in the US and Ireland. He studied drama and journalism and earned a BFA with honors from NYU Tisch. ​ Berko, Roy (November 2016). "Theater Review: 'Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' at Near West Theatre by Roy Berko". Cool Cleveland . Retrieved 8 February 2020. bodyevolutionpt (1 June 1977). "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat". David . Retrieved 1 January 2023. Phillip Schofield reprises Joseph role". The Telegraph. 18 May 2016. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 . Retrieved 28 April 2018.

The 2013 UK touring production starred Ian "H" Watkins as Joseph, who had previously playing the role in the West End in 2005. [63] Former X-Factor star Lloyd Daniels, appeared in the 2014 UK Tour as Joseph with Danielle Hope as the Narrator. [64] [65] The 2016 UK touring production starred Joe McElderry as Joseph and Lucy Kay as the Narrator. [66] [67] Former Any Dream Will Do contestant Ben James-Ellis appeared as both Pharaoh and Issachar. [68] The tour started again in February 2019 with Jaymi Hensley taking the lead role, with Trina Hill portraying the Narrator. [69] Matt just completed filming Wonka at Warner Brothers Studios starring Timothée Chalamet which is set to be released in 2023. Roberts, Joanne (27 March 2019). "Review: Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat". North Wales Live . Retrieved 1 January 2023.

BWW News Desk. "Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young to Lead JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT National Tour; Launches 3/4 in Cleveland". broadwayworld.com. The choice to include a full cast of children in this production, who all deliver sound performances, anchors its purpose as a children’s re-telling – but in certain scenes, it plays out as devastatingly strategic. There is jazz, tap, and pop too, as well as a sudden outbreak of can-can until one brother puts a stop to it (“I said Canaan, not can-can”). It might all be familiar, unthreatening fare, but it excels at its job. As the programme says: if it ain’t broke. Matt Gibson hails from New York City where he has performed on Broadway in Gypsy (starring Patti Lupone) and off-Broadway in Help (Shed NYC), On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Finian’s Rainbow, & New Girl in Town (Irish Rep), and The Underclassman (Duke 42). Gareth Gates stars as 'Joseph' from 9 Feb 2009". London Theatre. 8 June 2016 . Retrieved 30 December 2022.

Composer calls for some new theatres". The Canberra Times. Vol.67, no.21, 008. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 19 October 1992. p.20 . Retrieved 21 July 2017– via National Library of Australia. In November 2022, the London Palladium production opened in Melbourne, Australia. The production will then move to Sydney opening at the Capitol Theatre on the 11 February, 2023. [77] A new North American touring production began on 4 March 2014 in Cleveland, Ohio starring Diana DeGarmo as the Narrator and Ace Young as Joseph. [62] Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p.281. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. Jodi Benson, Linzi Hateley, Preeya Kalidas, Jenna Lee-James, Diana DeGarmo, Danielle Hope, Sheridan Smith, Alexandra Burke

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What does work well in this production is the ensemble: director Laurence Connor has created a sense of the collective with this cast. The songs are most memorable when delivered in enthusiastic unison. The ensemble succeeds in delivering with such gusto that Doidge’s Joseph often pales in comparison. He is not given the chance to show the same command of the stage he has shown in previous break-out roles (such as Blaine Tuttle in Cruel Intentions: the ’90s Musical ).

In December 2022 the production opened in Toronto with Yarrow reprising his role and will run until February 2023. With Jason Donovan in the lead, the expanded show was restaged in 1991 at the London Palladium with Steven Pimlott as director and Anthony Van Laast as choreographer, winning the 1992 Laurence Olivier Award for set design. The cast album of this production was the #1 UK album for two weeks in September 1991, and the single " Any Dream Will Do" from it was also the #1 UK single for two weeks in June–July 1991. When Donovan left, former children's TV presenter Phillip Schofield portrayed Joseph. [41] Darren Day would take up the role in 1993. [42]

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In the UK, Linzi’s other theatre credits include: Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers (National Tour); Donna Sheridan in Mamma Mia! (Novello & Prince of Wales Theatres); Charity Barnum in Barnum (National Tour); Helen in London Road (National Theatre); 50th Anniversary Gala (National Theatre); Madame Thenardier in Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre); Roxie Hart in Chicago (Adelphi& Cambridge Theatres); Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre); Frankie in On Your Toes; Nancy in Oliver!; Red Riding Hood in Into The Woods; Angel in The Rink (Leicester Haymarket); Martha in The Secret Garden (RSC Stratford/Aldwych Theatre); Hortense in Divorce Me, Darling!(Chichester Festival Theatre); Little Voice in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Basingstoke Haymarket); Barb in Romance Romance (Gielgud Theatre); Rizzo in Grease (Dominion Theatre); Kolo-Kolo Bird in Just So (Tricycle Theatre); Eponine in Les Misérables (Palace Theatre). For those who are unfamiliar with the Old Testament, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (aka Joseph ) follows the story of Joseph (Euan Fistrovic Doidge), son of Jacob, a polygamist with 12 sons. Joseph has the ability to see and interpret dreams and is his father’s favourite. Jacob gifts Joseph a multi-coloured coat as a marker of his affection. This causes jealousy amongst his brothers, and they seek revenge by selling him into slavery. The book itself is a rather straightforward, somewhat camp, musical retelling based on The Children’s Wonder Book of Bible Stories, that aims to inspire children to dream and follow who they are. Despite this intention, this production leaves much to be desired. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' cast to be led by Jac Yarrow at The London Palladium" whatsonstage.com, 20 March 2019

The brothers’ jealousy is compounded by Joseph's dreams, which suggest that he is destined to rule over them ("Joseph's Dreams"). To stop this from happening, they try to kill him by throwing him down a pit, before changing their minds and selling him as a slave to some passing Ishmaelites. The Narrator comments on how powerless Joseph was to stop this ("Poor, Poor Joseph"). In song and showmanship too, it transitions from a solid show to a storming one by the end of the first half, and every performance oozes personality and mischief from hereon in. The seduction scene, in which Burke plays Potiphar’s lascivious wife, has a kitschy whiff of Carry On, while the Pharaoh’s song is pure Las Vegas gold. a b "Joseph and the Amazing Techicolor Dreamcoat the stage musical in London from 27 June though to 7 September 2019". Thisistheatre.com.Perry, Chris (3 February 2016). The Kaleidoscope British Christmas Television Guide 1937–2013. ISBN 9781900203609. JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT retains all the sparkling wit, style, and melodies of the original Broadway musical. In a nimble eighty-minutes, viewers get a banquet of different musical styles. Jacob is told of Joseph's "death" in a twangy country-western lament; Pharaoh relates his dreams in pure Elvis style (he is The King, after all); the framing of brother Benjamin is set to Caribbean calypso; and the rest is Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular brand of catchy power pop. The multi-ethnic cast (old Jacob evidently had wide-ranging tastes in wives) contributes to the world-beat feel. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat". samplecontents.library.ph . Retrieved 1 January 2023.