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
Productions5 on Broadway
| 1982 | Royale Theatre Original. January 27, 1982 · Tony Tanner | 824 performances |
| 1991 | London Palladium Original. | |
| 1993 | Minskoff Theatre Revival. November 10, 1993 · Steven Pimlott | 231 performances |
| 2019 | London Palladium Transfer. | |
| 2021 | London Palladium Transfer. |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
31 passages naming Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
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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