Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, 1982

The run closed September 4, 1983

Opened

January 27, 1982

Closed

September 4, 1983

Performances

824

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre

Of the 464 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and carry a performance count, this is the 18th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 4 more that season

1991	London Palladium Original
1993	Minskoff Theatre Revival · Steven Pimlott	231 perf.
2019	London Palladium Transfer
2021	London Palladium Transfer

Who was in it36 named

Philip Carrubba
Robert Hyman
Steve Mcnaughton
Charlie Serrano
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

8 of these 36 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 28 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 held

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.
• No recording is held for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.