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"Joe McElderry has said that his challenging role in rock musical Tommy is not necessarily about &amp;quot;proving [him]self&amp;quot; after The X Factor. The 21-year-old, who won the sixth series of X Factor in 2009, will play the eponymous deaf, dumb and blind pinball enthusiast in a one-off charity performance of the show, which is based on The Who&amp;#039;s 1969 double album.  Speaking to Digital Spy, McElderry admitted that while he was initially concerned about the stigma attached to X Factor winners, the choice to take a role &amp;quot;different to what people would expect&amp;quot; was more about proving something to himself. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t want to do a show that people would go, &amp;#039;Oh, I knew he would do that&amp;#039;, and when it was first announced I was doing this, everybody was a bit like, &amp;#039;Wow&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;At first it was about [X Factor], but I feel like that&amp;#039;s kind of in the past now and it&amp;#039;s more about proving myself as a performer, proving that I&amp;#039;m progressing, proving that I&amp;#039;m willing to take risks.  &amp;quot;[Being in Tommy is] more for myself than anything, but also to kind of prove that... I&amp;#039;m trying new things and being a bit more bold with choices.&amp;quot;  Joe McElderry with The Who frontman Roger Daltry, who played Tommy in the 1975 film version: McElderry also spoke about his special appearance in the West End production of Thriller for Children in Need on November 15. Confirming that he would be singing Michael Jackson&amp;#039;s 1980 track &amp;#039;She&amp;#039;s Out Of my Life&amp;#039;, McElderry continued: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a song I sung on X Factor, so it&amp;#039;s gonna be pretty easy to just go in.  &amp;quot;And I kind of get to be myself in that, because it&amp;#039;s for charity. But I might turn on a bit of the Jacko.&amp;quot; McElderry will appear in Tommy at the Prince Edward Theatre on Monday, November 12.  Tickets range from \u00C2\u00A315 to \u00C2\u00A350, with \u00C2\u00A365 premium seats and a \u00C2\u00A3125 VIP package also available. They can be purchased from the Delfont Mackintosh Theatres website. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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