Lee Mead Gets "Awesome" reviews on Any Dream Will Do

Finally, we start to see a real star emerging through the dross this programme has offered so far. Lee Mead is not only a likely winner, he's the only winner going on this week's performance.

Described as "awesome" and "phenomenal" by the judges, Lee's performance of Leave Right Now (Will Young), was breathtaking. He captured the song perfectly, and delivered it like the professional he obviously is. Now, I know there is a bit of controversy about Lee being in the show in the first place, as he does have experience in the West End already. But more fool to the producers who have overlooked this guy's talent before, he really does have everything.

Apart from Lee, the only other person who came near was Keith, again. Singing Always On My Mind to show his "maturity", I'm still not sure that he has the right persona for Joseph. His first West End role could certainly be one of the brothers though.

Lewis gave a decent performance of I'm A Believer and didn't really deserve to be in the sing-off, and while Daniel's Maggie May was good from the vocal perspective, his overall stage presence lacks that certain spark needed to be a West End lead.

Poor little Ben is really trying his best isn't he? Singing Help Yourself, a Tom Jones number, he did entertain the audience and would have been fantastic in a cabaret bar or cruise ship, but he is not Joseph by the biggest stretch of the imagination. Craig, too, is trying to move away from the cabaret sound; unfortunately that is probably about as far as he'll ever get.

Rob had to go sometime, and though I probably would have put him above Craig and Ben this week it will spare him the pain of struggling through another show. Once again, he was given the wrong song, Born To Run. I just don't see how he could have proved his musical theatre potential with yet another rock number.

While I'm on a rant about the musical theatre genre, my Grease Is The Word review delves into the opinion that songs by Abba or Queen are NOT musical theatre!

All that's left to say about Any Dream Will Do for this week though, is ... Lee Mead could start seriously learning all the Joseph songs and the script now. He should play the leading role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat!