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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