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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Shows · Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a sung-through musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice, based on the character Joseph from the Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly: their first collaboration, The Likes of Us, written in 1965, was not performed in public until 2005.

Opened
1982
Performances
824
Type
Musical
Era
Megamusical
Music: Andrew Lloyd WebberLyrics: Tim Rice

Productions2 on Broadway

1893 Union Square Theatre Original. March 20, 1893 · Ramsay Morris · predates this show
1930 Liberty Theatre Revival. February 12, 1930 · George S. Kaufman · predates this show 13 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 2 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 1 entry

US Concord Theatricals ALW Collection available

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In the literature31 passages

This diverting parody of 1920s musicals introduced Julie Andrews to Broadway and she was a delight. The spoof ran for 485 performances. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p255

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. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p482

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… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p521

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1073

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a fifteen-minute cantata (London, 1968) gradually expanded over the years into a full-length Broadway production (1982). book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p650

The evening offered seven numbers from The Phantom of the Opera, five from Jesus Christ Superstar, four from Evita, three from Cats, three from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, one apiece from Starlight Express, Song & Dance, and Requiem, and one song written for the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona. book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p111

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