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Weekend of February 22-23, 2020
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Pharaoh (Taylor Beeks), center left, and Joseph (Jacob Vallie), in chains, dance into an unlikely partnership during a dress rehearsal of
Its family-friendly story,
“Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” a musical comedy with music composed by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics written
familiar themes and catchy
by Tim Rice.
Mark B. Gibson photos
have resulted in nu-
‘Joseph’ predated music
merous stagings.
“Joseph” was first present-
‘Superstar’
ed as a 15-minute “pop can-
Continued from page A1 tata” at Colet Court School in
London in 1968, and it was
published by Novello and re-
students, Browning said.
corded in an expanded form
“Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat,”
by Decca Records in 1969.
or “Joseph,” is based on the
After the success of the next
“coat of many colours” story Lloyd Webber and Rice piece,
of Joseph from the Bible’s
“Jesus Christ Superstar,”
book of Genesis. This was
“Joseph” received amateur
the first Lloyd Webber and
stage productions in the US
Rice musical to be performed beginning in 1970, and the
publicly; their first collab-
first American release of the
album was in 1971.
oration, “The Likes of Us,”
The musical was mounted
written in 1965, was not per-
formed until 2005, according on Broadway in 1982. Several
major revivals, national tours,
to Wikipedia.
and a 1999 direct-to-video
The show has only a few
lines of spoken dialogue; it is film starring Donny Osmond
almost entirely sung-through. followed.
DREAMS
Joseph’s brothers gather for a trip to Egypt in search of food. The brothers are acted by, in no particular order, Wesley Parker, Julian
Morehouse, Dillon Gibbons, Shaelyn Scott, Izzy Marlinga, Avery Winwood, Tyrin Vice, Taylor Beeks, Alex Rector, Rowen Bierwirth and
Asher Young.
“Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” opened
Thursday night and continues through this weekend and next.
Joseph’s brothers set out on a trip to Egypt in search of food.
An imprisoned Joseph laments his fate with members of the Children’s Choir from Chenowith Elementary School. Members of the
Children’s Choir are, in no particular order, Grace Neal, Carlie Morales, Alessandra Alejos, Evelyn Cortes, Beatriz Torres, Kadence Gomez-
Sorensen, Alexa Ortega Averie Kuehnl and Yaresly Vacquez.
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