Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice based on the story in the Book of Genesis. great musical. I do not dislike the new cast, I just prefer the Osmond cast better. As I left, the entire audience was standing and swaying, singing and clapping. The very first musical they wrote together, called `The likes of us', didn't reach the stage at that time and was put there for a single special performance in 2005, luckily, captured on CD and also available here at Amazon.I've been spoiled having listened to the version starring Donny Osmond. Of the recordings of JOSEPH I've heard, I consider this to be the most wonderful and characterful recording of this Lord Lloyd-Webber musical.
The oldest and first dedicated online London theatre guideNot quite so long ago, but well over a quarter of a century ago, Rice and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's first musical collaboration That jaunty sense of fun permeates director Laurence Connor's constantly inventive new vision for the show, which is mostly a steamroller of pure joy and comic delights. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. The superb line-up includes David Easter in an overripe performance of the Elvis-styled Pharaoh, and one can hear the little touches of humour he brings to his portrayal. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is, as Stephen Gately so deftly put it, "as camp as a row of tents". Subscribe to our newsletter. This musical really is a proper musical, told in song from end to end like an opera. It became a hit when an expanded version of the show was restaged at The London Palladium in 1991 starring Donovan in the lead role. Joseph is back in London at last! Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is based on the “coat of many colours” story from the Bible’s Book of Genesis and was first presented as a 15-minute show for schools in the 1960s. Venue: London Palladium . It's a show that features only a few rare moments of actual spoken dialogue. He blows Close Every Door out of the park and leads some really tricky – really spectacular – choreography from Joann M Hunter. Yarrow, who will graduate from Arts Educational School in September and was spotted for this role when he starred in his final student show as the lead in its UK premiere of Disney's Choreographer Joann M Hunter is put to work expanding several numbers into dance breaks - including a tap-dance inserted into "Potiphar" and a spectacular first act finale remix for "Go, Go, Go Joseph".This Joseph is all go, go, go - and although its only here at the "The real motor of the evening is Sheridan Smith, returning to the stage for the first time since 2016.
Donovan is well-partnered by Linzi Hateley as a charismatic and winning Narrator.
Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations Such a variety of musical formats based on the ageless Biblical story of Joseph, becomes more than just a story, but engages us musically and dramatically, as well. In other words, just what we need right now. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is Andrew Lloyd Webber's first staged musical work and his first staged collaboration with his best lyricist Tim Rice. It's, of course, a long way from how It's never exactly subtle, and you may miss the wit and ingenuity of the lyrics as they are swallowed in the laughter and occasional sheer mugging of Instead, it is newcomer Jac Yarrow who is the stand-out star in the title role. ""Is this a show or a cult?