Patrick Cassidy Wins Best Actor Golden Icon Award for Joseph

by David Easton, Entertainment Reporter

Patrick Cassidy received top honors winning the Best Actor in a Touring Production for his title role performance in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph) in the annual Golden Icon Awards announced Friday by Travolta Family Entertainment.

According to PatrickCassidy.net, the official web site of the actor, talks have taken place to potentially bring Joseph to Broadway in late 2006.

Cassidy, who continues in the current tour of Joseph opposite American Idol contestant Amy Adams in the role of the Narrator, is reported to be the likely choice to head the proposed Broadway revival, with Rikki Lee Travolta the likely choice to take over the tour.

Occasional cast swapping of the two leading men could be enabled to continual revive ticket sales to extend the Broadway run. A similar tour-to-Broadway lead swap formula was utilized to great success in the 1990s with tour headliner Donny Osmond and Broadway headliner Michael Damian.

Neal Patrick Harris won the Golden Icon Award for Best Actor in a Non-Touring Stage Performance for his West End role in Jonathan Larson's Tick, Tick…Boom.

Idina Menzel squeaked in under the wire of eligibility with a handful of performances in January 2005 to win the Golden Icon for Best Actress in a Non-Touring Stage Performance for her role as Elphaba in the Broadway production of Wicked.

Haley Evetts won the Golden Icon for Best Actress in a Touring Production for her role as Sandy in Grease (U.K.).

The film adaptation of Jonathan Larson's Rent won the award for Best Musical Feature Film. It featured many actors from the original Broadway cast including Taye Diggs, Jesse L. Martin, Menzel, Adam Pascal, and Anthony Rapp.

The Golden Icon Awards are presented by Travolta Family Entertainment LLC to acknowledge stand out achievements each year in entertainment, leisure, and fashion.