The run closed September 4, 1983
- Opened
- January 27, 1982
- Closed
- September 4, 1983
- Performances
- 824
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 19th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 3 more that season
| 1993 | Minskoff Theatre Revival · Steven Pimlott | 231 perf. |
| 2019 | London Palladium Transfer | |
| 2021 | London Palladium Transfer |
Who was in it36 named
David Ardao
Philip Carrubba
Robert Hyman
Randon Lo
Steve Mcnaughton
Charlie Serrano
Gordon Stanley
David Asher
Lorraine Barrett
Karen Bogan
Kenneth Bryan
Katharine Buffaloe
Lauren Goler
Stephen Hope
Peter Kapetan
James Rich
Barry Tarallo
Doug Voet
Renee Warren
David Cassidy
Allen Fawcett
Andy Gibb
Sharon Brown
D Peter Samuel
Terry Iten
Dorothy Tancredi
Eric Aaron
Richard Hilton
Michael Speero
Stephen Bourneuf
Timmy Fauvell
5 of these 36 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 31 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters8 roles recorded
Bill Hutton Joseph
Laurie Beechman Narrator
Tom Carder Pharaoh
Gordon Stanley Jacob
David Ardao Potiphar
Randon Lo Mrs. Potiphar
Barry Tarallo Baker
Kenneth Bryan Butler
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Creative team
- Director
- Tony Tanner
- Choreographer
- Tony Tanner
- Producer
- Zev Bufman & Susan Rose
- Orchestrations
- Martin Silvestri
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
The revival offered a fifty-member children’s chorus (four local groups were employed, and they rotated throughout the run); a gigantic mechanical Sphinx that rolled across the stage while rolling its eyes; a huge mechanical camel and asp; stuffed buzzards and rainbow-colored sheep; a lavish golden chariot; illuminated miniature models that depicted the Seven Wonders of the World (including the Ch… The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 152
- This diverting parody of 1920s musicals introduced Julie Andrews to Broadway and she was a delight. The spoof ran for 485 performances. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 255
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was an exception to the pattern of Lloyd Webber’s shows being more warmly received in London than on Broadway. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 482
- Joseph had originally been seen Stateside when British director Frank Dunlop restaged the Young Vic production as part of the inaugural (and final) season of his brief-lived BAM Theatre Company. If you Aad to see the Lloyd Webber oratorio once, you might as well’ve caught Dunlop’s version, which opened December 30, 197… More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 521
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 1073
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a fifteen-minute cantata (London, 1968) gradually expanded over the years into a full-length Broadway production (1982). Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 650
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What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at all.
- No show page for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.