From Neighbours to a chart-topping music career, from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat to an appearance on I’m A Celebrity that sealed our affection, Jason Donovan has consistently captured the hearts of his adopted country and entertained us all along the way. This Autumn, Donovan will take to the road on a 34-date UK tour for his autobiographical show \u2018Jason and his Amazing Midlife Crisis\u2019. The \u2018in conversation’ style show will be filled with stories, laughter and music spanning Jason\u2019s amazing career. Tickets for the tour are on sale on Friday the 24th March at 10am via www.jasondonovan.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The show will examine every aspect of Jason\u2019s life, from where he began to where he is today as we revisit his past, present and future. Donovan\u2019s self-effacing, mercurial story telling will shatter your illusions of the \u2018teen heart throb\u2019 in a witty and entertaining show. Jason\u2019s relentless enthusiasm and a refreshingly blunt compulsion towards honesty will reveal all about his rollercoaster life. The show will be a rare chance to get up close and personal with the star with an opportunity for the audience to ask questions. Jason will also perform some acoustic versions of his classic hits.<\/p>\n

Jason<\/strong> commented; \u201cIn the past I\u2019ve either been too young, too busy or too dazed and confused to be able to make sense my life. But now, on the eve of my fiftieth birthday – and older and wiser, if a little more weathered – I believe that I am finally in a position to put my life into perspective. I\u2019m in a great place, surrounded by good people and don\u2019t feel like I need to prove myself any more\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Join Jason Donovan in conversation as he shares moments from the last four decades that he wasn\u2019t able to tell us about on daytime television! Jason has many guises \u2013 star of stage and screen, radio DJ, actor, performer, friend, father, husband, brother, son and confirmed National Treasure. Here he tells us about the highlights and challenges, the opportunities and obstacles of being all of those things.<\/p>\n

He was the ultimate 80\u2019s heart-throb who commanded an audience of 22 million in \u2018Neighbours\u2019, dated Kylie and went on to score no fewer than 16 hit singles, sell over 30 million records worldwide and appear in a series of hit West End musicals. But at the time, it didn’t make him happy\u2026<\/p>\n

Pigeon-holed and marginalised as a teen heart throb and family entertainer, Donovan\u2019s desire to shake-off his heart throb image and be cool and credible resulted in him famously collapsing during a cocaine fuelled binge at Johnny Depp and Kate Moss’s party and passing out on top of Jack Nicholson.<\/p>\n

Meeting his wife and the subsequent birth of his children forced Donovan to re-evaluate his life. He reinvigorated his career on reality TV programmes I\u2019m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! and Strictly Come Dancing.<\/p>\n

Eventually Jason re-found his love of performing with leading roles in Sweeney Todd, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Rocky Horror Show and Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Jeff Wayne\u2019s The War of the Worlds, The Sound of Music, and Annie Get Your Gun. He also toured the UK in the highly acclaimed play The King\u2019s Speech.<\/p>\n

Now aged 49 \u00bd and with a wealth of tantalising tales under his belt, Donovan\u2019s autobiographical show takes the singer’s looming 50th birthday as its starting point and zigzags back and forth through a life in which becoming a heart-throb at 18 and falling from grace at 27 plays only a tiny part.<\/p>\n

Jason commented; \u201cMy dad always said to me, the secret to a long and happy life is not to take it all too seriously. I\u2019ve been on the edge, pushed my life to the extreme and come back from it which has actually made me stronger and made me realise what I DON\u2019T want to do with my life. I think perhaps the key to a good life is keeping a balance both physically and mentally and the realisation that success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success\u201d<\/p>\n

TOUR DATES<\/strong>
\nOctober<\/strong>
\n07 \/ 10 – Newark Palace Theatre
\n08 \/ 10 – Birmingham Town Hall
\n09 \/ 10 – Bury St Edmunds The Apex
\n11 \/ 10 – Stockport The Plaza
\n12 \/ 10 – Durham Gala Theatre
\n17 \/ 10 – Horsham The Capitol
\n18 \/ 10 – Shanklin Shanklin Theatre
\n19 \/ 10 – Harpenden Public Halls
\n20 \/ 10 – Redhill Harlequin Theatre
\n21 \/ 10 – East Grinstead Chequer Mead Theatre
\n23 \/ 10 – Harlow Playhouse
\n24 \/ 10 – Lancaster Grand Theatre
\n25 \/ 10 – New Brighton Floral Pavilion
\n26 \/ 10 – Wakefield Theatre Royal
\n27 \/ 10 – Winchester Theatre Royal
\n30 \/ 10 – Telford Oakengates Theatre
\n31 \/ 10 – Swindon Wyvern Theatre<\/p>\n

November<\/strong>
\n01 \/ 11 – Milton Keynes The Stables
\n02 \/ 11 – Harrogate Harrogate Theatre
\n03 \/ 11 – Kings Lynn Corn Exchange
\n06 \/ 11 – Buxton Opera House
\n07 \/ 11 – Wimborne Tivoli Theatre
\n08 \/ 11 – Weston Super Mare The Playhouse
\n09 \/ 11 – Porthcawl Grand Pavilion
\n14 \/ 11 – Gateshead The Sage
\n15 \/ 11 – Livingston Howden Park Centre
\n16 \/ 11 – Stirling The Albert Hall
\n20 \/ 11 – Epsom The Playhouse
\n23 \/ 11 – Margate -Theatre Royal
\n27 \/ 11 – Exeter Corn Exchange
\n28 \/ 11 – Taunton Brewhouse Theatre
\n29 \/ 11 – Camberley Camberley Theatre<\/p>\n

December<\/strong>
\n01 \/ 12 – Lowestoft Marina Theatre<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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