Jason Donovan Watch Continues

As part of our ongoing inexplicable coverage of all things Jason Donovan, we’d like to draw your attention to the following story.

Singer Jason Donovan stepped down from his stage role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, because he feared he would end up like ageing British crooner Sir Cliff Richard. The former Neighbours actor and ’80s pop hunk enjoyed his time as the lead role in Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s London theatre production of the biblical tale during the early 1990s, but felt he had to quit before he became typecast. He says, “The adulation and the money were incredible. But I didn’t want to be a new Cliff Richard in a satin suit any more. I didn’t want to stay complacent on one level and not be individual. “I want to do different things in my life, and I don’t want to be perceived as the one character. God bless Cliff Richard but that was where I was going.”

It’s rather sweet that Jason thought he’d be typecast as Joseph of all people, especially when the majority of the theatre audience watching him strut his stuff on the boards at the time simply thought that Scott Robinson had developed a sudden taste for haute couture and musical theatre, and split their attention between watching Jim’s youngest son belt out the tunes and keeping a vigilant eye on the side of the stage in the vain hope Charlene, Mike, or at the very bloody least Plain Jane Superbrain might be waiting in the wings ready to make a special cameo appearance.