Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat [DVD] [1999]

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BWW News Desk. "Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young to Lead JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT National Tour; Launches 3/4 in Cleveland". broadwayworld.com. The production transferred to Broadway at the Royale Theatre on 27 January 1982 and ran through 4 September 1983, with 747 performances. [36] Judith Dolan designed costumes for the production. [37] This production was recorded on the Chrysalis label, and is the first to feature the Prologue (dubbed on the Chrysalis release "You are what you feel"). The producers were Gail Berman and Susan Rose, who were the youngest producers on Broadway. [38] The show received six Tony Award nominations including Best Musical and Best Original Score but won none. Allen Fawcett replaced Hutton as Joseph in June 1982. [39] David Cassidy took over the role of Joseph in March 1983 and also performed in the touring cast in 1983–1984. [40] 1990s [ edit ] There is jazz, tap, and pop too, as well as a sudden outbreak of can-can until one brother puts a stop to it (“I said Canaan, not can-can”). It might all be familiar, unthreatening fare, but it excels at its job. As the programme says: if it ain’t broke. A major Australian production, based on the 1991 UK version, opened on 31 December 1992 at the State Theatre in Melbourne. It featured Indecent Obsession lead singer David Dixon as Joseph and Tina Arena as the Narrator. The musical then played seasons in Brisbane and Sydney through 1993. [45] [46] A Narrator opens the show by introducing Joseph, the dreamer ("Prologue"). Joseph sings an inspiring, but seemingly meaningless song to the audience (" Any Dream Will Do"). The Narrator then draws the audience's attention to Joseph's father Jacob and his 12 sons ("Jacob and Sons"). Jacob favours Joseph over his other sons, and he gives Joseph a multicoloured coat to show his affection for him. Joseph is ecstatic about this gift ("Joseph's Coat"), while his brothers look on with jealousy.

The choice to include a full cast of children in this production, who all deliver sound performances, anchors its purpose as a children’s re-telling – but in certain scenes, it plays out as devastatingly strategic. Darren Day: Credits, Bio, News & More | Broadway World". www.broadwayworld.com . Retrieved 30 December 2022. In late August and September 1972, Joseph was presented at the Edinburgh International Festival by the Young Vic Theatre Company, directed by Frank Dunlop. [6] It starred Gary Bond in the title role, Peter Reeves as the narrator, and Gordon Waller as Pharaoh; Alan Doggett was the music director. In October the production played at London's Young Vic Theatre, and in November at the Roundhouse. The production was part of a double bill called Bible One: Two Looks at the Book of Genesis. Part I was Dunlop's reworking of the first six of the medieval Wakefield Mystery Plays, with music by Alan Doggett. Part II was Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. [18] This production of Joseph, still a 35-minute musical, was also broadcast in the UK by Granada Television in 1972. [20] A production starring Stephen Gately previewed in Oxford in December 2002, before moving to Liverpool over Christmas 2002. This production reached the West End at the New London Theatre in March 2003. [51] Ian "H" Watkins took over the role of Joseph in 2005. [52] Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' Listing, 1982". Internet Broadway Database, accessed 17 March 2011Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' cast to be led by Jac Yarrow at The London Palladium" whatsonstage.com, 20 March 2019 Bloom, Ken (2003). Broadway: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p.552. ISBN 9781135950194. Archived from the original on 15 April 2014. Hummel, David (January 1984). The collector's guide to the American musical theatre. ISBN 9780810816374.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat moves West End run to 2021 | WhatsOnStage". www.whatsonstage.com . Retrieved 29 May 2020.

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In 1974, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was performed at the Playhouse in the Park in Philadelphia. [29] [30] The musical ran at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York in 1976 and in 1977 as "holiday fare". In the 1976 production, which opened on 30 December, direction was by John Dunlop, with a cast that featured Cleavon Little as the Narrator and David-James Carroll as Joseph. [31] In the 1977 production, running in December through 1 January 1978, staging was by Graciela Daniele, with Carroll as Joseph, Alan Weeks as the Narrator and William Parry as Pharaoh/Elvis. [32] In 1979, Joseph made its Connecticut debut at the historic Downtown Cabaret Theatre ahead of moving to New York City. [33] Admin. "Ian 'H' Watkins lives the Joseph dream again | Musical Theatre Review" . Retrieved 30 December 2022. The film was originally shot as a feature film, but ended up being released directly to video. [1] It was shot over three weeks in July/August 1999 on three sound stages at Pinewood Studios in London. The release of the film was advertised by a brief series of sing-along performances that Osmond starred in as a Fathom Event. [2] The film was released by PolyGram. [3] In the United States, the film was shown as an episode of PBS' Great Performances.

The bigger surprise is Jac Yarrow, who made his West End debut when the production opened in 2019. He looks like a chiselled biblical superhero in his coat of many colours and belts out ballads that rival the power of Burke’s, including a soaring rendition of Close Every Door. Gordon, Robert; Jubin, Olaf (21 November 2016). The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199988754– via Google Books. The 2007 West End revival and several of the UK Tour productions included "King of My Heart" performed by Pharaoh which was sung after "Stone the Crows" . [81] [82] Awards and nominations [ edit ] Original Broadway production [ edit ] Year Lots of the narrator being touched in suggestive ways, her popping out from in-between dudes legs, crotch shots randomly for no reason. Disgusting this was rated with 0 stars for "sexy stuff" because there's an orgy scene. Even though they're technically not naked or having sex, the women are in very thin skin colored costumes with glitter around around their nipples, the main girl despite having normal clothes everywhere else has the thin skin colored fabric only over her boobs and glitter around her nippers again; they also have men in outfits male strippers would wear. During the orgy they heavily imply/show that they are attempting to rape Joseph. Another with tight and sometime blue or nude color fabrics, except this time they just have gold over their crotch. They also once again have a scene with women going at him trying to undress him, though this time he is slightly more willing, clearly not entirely consenting again though. Stopped watching after this point, absolutely disgusting. In February 1973, theatre producer Michael White and impresario Robert Stigwood mounted a further expanded version of the Young Vic production at the Albery Theatre in the West End, where it ran for 243 performances. [21] [22] This Young Vic production of Joseph was recorded for an LP released on the RSO label in 1973. The mystery plays that had preceded the original Young Vic productions were dropped, and instead the musical was preceded by a piece called Jacob's Journey, with music and lyrics by Lloyd Webber and Rice and a book by television comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. [9] Jacob's Journey, which contained a great deal of spoken dialogue, was eventually phased out in favour of a sung-through score that became part of Joseph. [9] The first production of the show in its modern, final form was at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester, which presented the musical several times from 1974 through 1978. [18] [23] English Cast charts [ edit ] Chart (1973)The production returned to the London Palladium in 2021, playing a limited season from 1 July to 5 September. The production, which was postponed from 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, saw Alexandra Burke join the company as The Narrator and Yarrow and Donovan return to the roles of Joseph and Pharaoh respectively. [76] Linzi Hateley reprised her role as the Narrator in specific performances, with choreography once again by Joann M. Hunter and produced by Michael Harrison.