Theatre: Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Playhouse, Edinburgh

Star Rating: *** Oh, brother. It's the norm now for stage-school wannabes to audition in front of several million viewers watching prime-time TV. Director/producer Bill Kenwright has managed to shoehorn no fewer than three finalists from his Fame-meets-X Factor talent show, Any Dream Will Do, into his latest touring franchise of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's extravaganza. The result is a smorgasbord of cash-cow showbiz cynicism which, a couple of generations on from its 1968 debut, looks like a prophecy come true - an everyday tale of a spoiled kid with ideas above his station who makes it big.