Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Originally written by Andrew Lloyd Webber as a pop cantata for performance in schools over forty years ago, Joseph has become a world-wide fixture in amateur and church performances. Jason Donovan, Donny Osmond, Phillip Schofield, Gareth Gates and Lee Mead have all played Joseph in major productions. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is the second British musical theatre show written by the team of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Its predecessor, The Likes of Us, was not performed until 2005. Based on the "coat of many colours" story of Joseph from the Book of Genesis, this light-hearted show was first presented as a fifteen-minute pop cantata at Colet Court School in London on 1 March 1968. It was adapted as a musical film (starring Donny Osmond) in 1999. Joseph was particularly recognized as one of the few major British musical theatre shows with hardly any spoken dialogue, being sung-through almost completely.

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