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a chronological overview of John's career

19 December 2008-
1 February 2009

Starring as Robin Hood at the Hippodrome Theatre, Birmingham

24 August 2008

Featured guest performer at the Faenol Festival, hosted by Bryn Terfel

24-25 July 2008

Appearance at Comic Con, San Diego, California

23 July 2008

Book signing of Anything Goes - Book Soup, Sunset Boulevard, W. Hollywood

15 July 2008

Another Side released in Canada

29 June 2008

Appearance at Toronto Gay Pride, on How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? float

17 June 2008

Appearance with finalists of How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? - CBC, Barbara Frum Atrium

16 June 2008

Guest on Breakfast TV, City TV - Toronto, Canada

15 June-28 July 2008

Judge and acting coach, How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? on CBC (Canada)

30 May 2008

Guest on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (recorded on 29 May)

7 and 9 May 2008

Guest presenter, This Morning, ITV1

6 May 2008

Guest on Ready Steady Cook, BBC2 (recorded on 1 May)

4 May 2008

Signing and photograph session - Collectormania, Milton Keynes

29 April 2008

Guest speaker at the Oxford Union (Oxford University)

29 April-1 May 2008

Guest presenter, This Morning, ITV1, standing in for Phillip Schofield

12 April-14 June 2008

Host of The Kids Are All Right, BBC1 (filmed 26-30 November 2007)

7-18 April 2008

UK tour to promote Another Side, appearing in Cardiff, Birmingham, Nottingham, Glasgow, Gateshead, London, Bristol, Manchester, Brighton and Portsmouth

4 April 2008

Guest on The Paul O'Grady Show, Channel 4 (recorded on 2 April)

31 March-4 April 2008

Co-host of The Breakfast Show, Capital Radio

25 March 2008

Guest star on Hotel Babylon, BBC1

24 March 2008

Guest on The Gethin Jones Show, BBC Radio Wales

16 March 2008

Book signing, Waterstone's, Edinburgh

15 March 2008

Book signing, Borders, Glasgow

15 March 2008-
31 May 2008

Judge on I'd Do Anything, BBC1

1 March 2008

Judge on Your Decision - Eurovision (BBC1) in which the UK's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest is chosen.

27 February 2008

Guest on Jo Whiley Show, BBC Radio 1 (pre-recorded)

23 February 2008

Presenter on National Lottery Show, BBC1

23 February 2008

Guest on JK and Joel's Morning Show, Virgin Radio

18 February 2008

Guest on The Alan Titchmarsh Show, ITV1 (recorded on 11 February)

16 February 2008

Presenter on National Lottery Show, BBC1

16 February 2008

Book signing - Borders, Cardiff

15 February 2008

Guest on Al Murray's Happy Hour, ITV1 (recorded on 12 February)

15 February 2008

Book signing - Borders, Oxford

15 February 2008

Book signing, WH Smith, Reading

15 February 2008

Guest on BBC Breakfast, BBC1

14 February 2008

Book signing - Waterstones, Bluewater, Kent

13 February 2008

Book signings - British Bookshops, Brighton and Borders, Brighton

13 February 2008

Guest on BBC Radio Southern Counties

12 February 2008

Guest on Front Row, BBC Radio 4 (pre-recorded)

12 February 2008

Guest on Steve Wright in the Afternoon, BBC Radio 2 (pre-recorded)

12 February 2008

Book signing - Costco, Watford

12 February 2008

Guest on BBC regional radio shows - Sheffield, Southern Counties, Northampton, Leicester, Devon, West Midlands, Derby and Cornwall.

11 February 2008

Appearance at the National Theatre as part of the Platform Series in the Olivier Theatre, followed by a booksigning of John's autobiography, Anything Goes.

11 February 2008

Presented with Gold Disc, awarded for 100,000 UK sales of Another Side, during filming of The Alan Titchmarsh Show (broadcast on 18 February)

11 February 2008

Book signing - Waterstones, 421 Oxford Street, London

11 February 2008

Guest on This Morning, ITV1

27 January 2008

Guest on Indulgence, Magic FM (pre-recorded)

25 January 2008

Charity fundraiser tea at Hippodrome Theatre, Birmingham

24 January 2008

Book signing - Waterstones, Birmingham High Street

24 January 2008

Publication of John's autobiography, Anything Goes, written in collaboration with Carole Barrowman. An audiobook, read by John, will also be published.

16 January 2008

Premiere of S2 of Torchwood, BBC2

31 December 2007

Guest on The Big Finish, the BBC's end-of-year quiz for five celebrity teams (pre-recorded on 16 December)

24 December 2007

Guest on When Maria Met Joseph, BBC1 (pre-recorded 2 December)

21 December 2007

Broadcast of Jerry Herman Gala Concert, Friday Night is Music Night, BBC Radio 2

19 December 2007-
27 January 2008

Starring as Aladdin at the Hippodrome Theatre, Birmingham

16 December 2007

Guest on Christmas Voices, BBC1

8 December 2007

Guest on Jonathan Ross Show, BBC Radio 2

7 December 2007

Host of gala charity performance of Old Vic production of Cinderella, on behalf of Theatrecares.

4 December 2007

Guest on GMTV, ITV1

2 December 2007

Recording of Maria Meets Joseph (working title) for BBC1, expected to air around Christmastime.

1 December 2007

Performer at G-A-Y benefit for Elton John Aids Foundation

1 December 2007

Audience member at The X Factor (ITV1); interviewee on The Xtra Factor (ITV2).

29 November 2007

Guest on Scotland Today (STV)

26-30 November 2007

Taping The Kids Are All Right for BBC1, in BBC studios, Glasgow. Broadcast 12 April-31 May 2008.

25 November 2007

Guest on The Big Question, BBC1

23 November 2007

Guest on The One Show, BBC1

22 November 2007

Guest on This Week, BBC1

22 November 2007

Guest on Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two, BBC2

22 November 2007

Guest on Loose Women, ITV1

16 November 2007

Guest performer on Children in Need, BBC1's 28th charity appeal, live from BBC Television Centre, hosted by Terry Wogan

16 November 2007

Another Side CD signing, HMV, Oxford Street, London

14 November 2007

Guest on National Lottery draw show, BBC1

12 November 2007

Guest on GMTV, appearing live from Cardiff

12 November 2007

UK Release by SonyBMG of CD: Another Side

11 November 2007

Guest on Strictly Come Dancing results show, BBC1, performing a song from his new album, Another Side

6 November 2007

Guest on Steve Wright Show, BBC Radio 2

23 September 2007

Host and performer, A Jerry Herman Tribute concert for BBC Radio 2, Prince Edward Theatre, London

21 September 2007

Presenter of tribute to West Side Story on its 50th anniversary, BBC Radio 2

15 August 2007

Broadcast of Have I Been Here Before? featuring John's regression experience, ITV1.  (Pre-recorded 2005 and 2006)

27 July 2007

Guest presenter of The Friday Night Project, Channel 4 (pre-recorded on 26 July 2007)

22 July 2007

Host of The Kids Are All Right, a non-transmittable pilot for a new quiz show, BBC1

16 July 2007

Guest on Animal Rescue Live with Lewis and Teagan, BBC1

13-15 July 2007

Appearance at Television Critics Association summer event to promote Torchwood

30 June 2007  

Appearance on lead float and guest presenter at Pride London parade and concert

29 June 2007

Guest on GMTV, on location from set of Torchwood

24 June 2007   

Personal appearance at Eridge Summer Fair at Eridge Park, near Tunbridge Wells

23 June 2007  

Guest on quiz show Would I Lie To You? (recorded 23 March)

13 June 2007  

Guest on Blue Peter Doctor Who Special, BBC1

5 June 2007

Press launch for Aladdin, the 2007 Panto at the Birmingham Hippodrome. John's role - Aladdin.

5 June 2007

Launched Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, flying from Boscombe Down by Hawk Fighter Training jet aircraft

18 May 2007

Guest, with Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on BBC1 (pre-recorded on 17 May)

5 May 2007

Guest on Saturday Kitchen Live, BBC1

28 April 2007 

Signing of copies of Torchwood audio-books at Borders bookshop, Oxford Street

27 April 2007 

Guest on Loose Women, ITV1 (recorded 26 April)

14 April-June 2007

Judge on Any Dream Will Do, BBC1

2 April 2007

Visit to CERN, north of Geneva, as guest of Dr Brian Cox

30 March 2007

Guest on The Charlotte Church Show, Channel 4 (recorded 28 March)

30 March 2007

Panellist on The Weakest Link: Doctor Who Special, BBC1 (recorded November 2006) 

30 March 2007  

Visit to John Best Racing Yard in Hucking, Kent, to meet Hucking Harkness, the two-year-old racing colt named after John's Doctor Who and Torchwood character.

30 March 2007  

Guest on BBC Breakfast, BBC1

29 March 2007  

Guest on The Richard and Judy Show, Channel 4

22 March 2007

Attended Stonewall's Equality Dinner – Guest of Honour, Prime Minister Tony Blair

17 March 2007

Guest panellist on Making Your Mind Up, the show to choose the UK's Eurovision entry for 2007

13 March 2007

Featured on A Taste of my Life, BBC2

3 March 2007

Presenter of The National Lottery, BBC1

3 March 2007

Guest on Al Murray's Happy Hour, ITV1 (recorded 27 February)

24 February 2007

Presenter of The National Lottery, BBC1

18 February 2007

Stood in for Elaine Paige, presenter of the BBC Radio 2 show of musical theatre and film music for a second week.

11 February 2007

Co-Presenter with Ruby Wax of E! Entertainments Live from the Red Carpet BAFTAs show from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

11 February 2007

Stood in for Elaine Paige, presenter of the BBC Radio 2 show of musical theatre and film music from 1.00pm to 3.00pm.

31 December 2006

Celebrity contestant on The Big Finish quiz show, BBC1

31 December 2006

Guest on The Heaven and Earth Show, BBC1

22 December 2006

A Musical Christmas – Friday Night is Music Night on BBC Radio 2 from the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (recorded on 18 December).

16 December 2006-
27 January 2007

Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk at the New Theatre, Cardiff

12 December 2006

Opening and closing performer on the Royal Variety Performance at the London Coliseum (recorded on 4 December 2006)

1 December 2006

Panel Member – Eight Out Of Ten Cats (recorded 30 November 2006)

29 November 2006

Guest – Loose Women (recorded 27 November 2006)

25 November 2006

Opened MB Disco Supplies shop in Stirling

23 November 2006

Panel member – Never Mind the Buzzcocks (recorded 14 November 2006)

22 November 2006

Guest – BBC Breakfast on BBC1

19 November 2006

Guest – Something for the Weekend on BBC2

17 November 2006

Guest – This Morning on ITV1

12 November 2006

Guest – Sunday AM on BBC1

10 November 2006

Guest - The Jonathan Ross Show on BBC1

17 November 2006

Guest – This Morning

2 November 2006

Awarded Stonewall's Entertainer of the Year award (John was unable to attend the ceremony in person)

22 October 2006

Premiere – Torchwood (BBC3)

3 October 2006

Guest – Tony Wright (Capital Gold Radio Breakfast Show)

17 September 2006

Presenter – Keys to the Castle on HGTV (US)

May 2006

Guest reader of bedtime stories on CBeebies (BBC).

29 July-16 September 2006

Judge on How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria? BBC1

26 June 2006

Just So CD studio cast recording

24 June 2006

Guest performer – private event for patrons of The Prince's Foundation, at Highgrove House, for HRH The Prince of Wales

10-13 April 2006

Guest presenter – This Morning

3 March 2006

Guest – Loose Women

8 February 2006

Guest – The Wright Stuff

2 February 2006

Guest – GMTV

30 January 2006

Guest – This Morning

23 January 2006

Guest – This Morning

14 January-
4 February 2006

Competitor – Dancing on Ice

9 January 2006

Guest – Richard and Judy

31 December 2005

Guest - New Year Live, BBC1

23 December 2005

Guest performer – The Musicals at Christmas for Friday Night is Music Night (BBC Radio 2) starring Elaine Paige.  Recorded on 19 December at Symphony Hall, Birmingham.

16 December 2005

The Producers premiered in US.   John appeared in the role of the Lead Stormtrooper

9 December 2005-
15 January 2006

Prince Charming, Cinderella, New WimbledonTheatre, London

18 October 2005

Guest – Loose Women

30 September-6 October 2005

Presenter/performer in four-part The Sound of Musicals (BBC1).  Broadcast January 2006

13 September 2005

Guest – Loose Women

2 September 2005

Guest – BBC Breakfast

18 August-8 December 2005

Lt Jack Ross, A Few Good Men, Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London

12 July 2005

Cabaret – Feestzaal Stadhuis, Aalst, Belgium

4-9 July 2005

Cabaret - Pizza on the Park, London

2 July 2005

Concert – West Side Story Selections – A Tribute to Leonard Bernstein, Feldherrnhalle, Munich

24 June 2005

Guest Singer – Friday Night Is Music Night (BBC Radio 2)

21 May 2005

Premiere in the UK of Doctor Who episode The Empty Child in which John first appeared as Captain Jack Harkness (BBC1)

7 & 14 November 2004

Elegies – A Song Cycle at the Arts Theatre, London

3 September 2004

Friday Night Is Music Night (BBC Radio 2)

September-December 2004

Billy Flynn in Chicago, The Adelphi Theatre, London

2004

Solo CD, John Barrowman Swings Cole Porter

22 May 2004

De-Lovely premiered at Cannes Film Festival.  John appeared in the role of Jack.

28 February 2004

Method released in US (titled Dead Even in the UK).  John played Tim, a reporter.

2003

Interviewed as part of 100 Greatest Musicals (BBC)

21 November 2003

Children in Need (BBC1)

2003

Anything Goes, 2003 cast recording

21 September 2003-
28 August 2004

Billy Crocker in Anything Goes, Drury Lane Theatre (transfer from The National Theatre)

16-28 June 2003

Starred as F Scott Fitzgerald in Beautiful and Damned, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, Surrey

10-11 May 2003

Concert performance with fellow Broadway performers - An Evening with the Boston Pops (PBS)

21 February-March 2003

Played Dumaine in Love's Labours Lost, The National Theatre, London

11 December 2002-
22 March 2003

Billy Crocker in Anything Goes, The National Theatre, London

26 November 2002

Megalodon: Shark Attack 3 released in US.  John played the male lead, Ben Carpenter.

21 October 2002

Concert – Sondheim Celebration, Lincoln Center, New York

19 October 2002

Cabaret – Lincoln Center, New York

18 September-
6 October 2002

Review – It's Better With A Band, The Prince Music Theatre, Philadelphia

August 2002

Concert – Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Conner Prairie, Indiana

2-3 August 2002

Cabaret - Stackner Cabaret, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

11 June 2002

Cabaret – Millennium Stage, Kennedy Centre, Washington DC.

17 May-29 June 2002

Bobby in Company, The Kennedy Center, Washington DC

20 February-2 March
2002

Cabaret at Arci's Place, New York

4 October 2000-
4 April 2001

Titans – US soap opera broadcast on NBC.  John played Peter Williams

30 October 1999- February 2000

Younger Man in Putting it Together, Ethel Barrymore Theater, New York

2000

Solo CD, Reflections From Broadway

1999

The Beast/The Prince, Beauty and the Beast, Dominion Theatre, London

4 October-6 December 1998

Younger Man in Putting it Together, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles

1998

Hey! Mr Producer.  Celebration of the shows of Cameron Mackintosh in which John sang "One Two Three" from "The Fix".

1998

The Fix, cast recording

November 1997

Ché in Evita, Oslo Spektrum, Oslo, Norway

29 April-14 June 1997

Cal Chandler in The Fix, Donmar Warehouse,London

1997

Alex in Aspects of Love at The Olympia Theatre, Dublin (6 weeks) and Cork Opera House (1 week)

1997

Presenter – 5's Company (Channel 5)

1997

1st solo CD, Aspects of Lloyd Webber

1996

Robert Burns in Red Red Rose, The Concert Hall, Aarhus, Denmark

1996

Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard, Minskoff Theater, New York

1995-1996

Central Park West – US drama in which John starred as Peter Fairchild

1995

Godspell, studio cast recording

1994-1995

Presenter – The Movie Game (BBC)

December 1993-
April 1994

Chris in Miss Saigon, Drury Lane Theatre, London

1994

Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard, Adelphi Theatre, London

1994

Grease, studio cast recording

1993-1994

Presenter – Live and Kicking (BBC)

7 July-7 August 1993

Wyndham Brandon in Rope at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester Festival

1993

Hair, cast recording

1993

Claude in the 25th Anniversary production of Hair, The Old Vic, London

Phantom of the Opera, studio cast recording

1992

Raoul in Phantom of the Opera, Her Majesty's Theatre, London

1991

Matador CD single, 1991

1991

Domingo Hernandez in Matador, The Queen's Theatre, London

June 1991

Cole Porter Centennial Gala Concert CD, recorded June 1991

September 1990- February/March 1991

Chris (Alternate) in Miss Saigon, Drury Lane Theatre, London

1989

Billy Crocker in Anything Goes, Prince Edward Theatre, London

 

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