Andrew Lloyd Webber and … There’s clearly a lot of money behind this, but the show never feels pointlessly flashy.The big change is that the naughty narrator seems to be the one dreaming Joseph into existence, rather than the kids, plus she and her mini-troupe get involved in the action and play a load of the parts from Jacob to Potiphar’s Wife.That really emphasises what this show is about, and who it was in fact created for: children. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations There’s an equal gender split – great – and a really diverse cast, too – also great – but the men get to play actual characters, while the women have nothing to do except being never fully clothed and dancing sexily.Aside from those gripes, this is a dream of a production.
Go, go, go.Tim Bano is joint lead critic for The Stage. Everyone on that stage is having an absolute ball and it’s infectious.
Jac Yarrow and the company of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at London Palladium. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, the dream team, wrote their Dream musical more than 50 years ago, the first time the world saw what they had to offer. Large treats the stage like a playground for the biggest game of dress-up in the world. Photo: Tristram KentonJason Donovan, Sheridan Smith, Carl Spencer, Femi Akinfolarin, Jac Yarrow, Jack Wilcox, James Ballantyne, Joshua Steel, Michael Pickering, Richard CarsonWonderfully silly and gleeful new production featuring fantastic performances from Sheridan Smith and newcomer Jac Yarrow
Even musical director John Rigby is bouncing up and down with abandon.That glee shines out of Jac Yarrow, too, who beams his way through the part rather than moping around as other Josephs have. There are so few entertainers like her, and she makes such a massive change from the cloyingly sweet school teacher narrators that have usually corralled the kid chorus in Joseph.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Revival, Musical, Comedy, Broadway) opened in New York City Nov 10, 1993 and played through May 29, 1994.
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Although Connor tries to mitigate the bum-scrunching awkwardness by having a black actor sing it, that very appropriation-y song still sticks in the craw coming from two incredibly posh white men.Also, Connor really does not know what to do with the women in the ensemble. By the interval, we’ve got 10ft tall, gold-plated, guitar-playing sphinxes – the power of the children’s imagination. In 1991, Jason Donovan accepted the lead role in the restaged London Palladium version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1993 Los Angeles Cast Recording) by Andrew Lloyd Webber & "Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" 1993 Los Angeles Cast 4.7 out of … It makes so much sense for children, and for a childlike sense of fun and innocence, to be the driving force. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. There are starbursts of rainbow colours, unsubtle and childlike, matching those qualities in Lloyd Webber’s music. Lloyd Webber and Rice wrote it for a school choir. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: With pictures by Quentin Blake by Andrew Lloyd Webber , Tim Rice , et al. And obviously there are the costumes – especially a gorgeously intricate dreamcoat.In pastiching popular musical styles of the time, Lloyd Webber and Rice ended up writing one number as a calypso. Instead, she’s like a naughty babysitter, or some anarchic imp, dreaming up this bright and silly world as she goes along.She has an amazing ability to make it look like she only half knows what she’s doing, so there’s always a thrilling edge of liveness and spontaneity to the show. In fact, Morgan Large’s set is more of a character than Jason Donovan’s Pharaoh, with big and colourful scenery that Donovan comes on and chews for five glorious minutes.The design sort of builds from nothing; at the start it’s a couple of sheets hung up by the corners to look like sand dunes. A page for describing YMMV: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. It gives the show a purpose that a lot of other stale productions have failed to find.At the centre is narrator Sheridan Smith in a glittering tracksuit treating us to two hours of cheeky, perfectly timed comedy.
Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations Donovan also had … Click on the banner to find out more.Jac Yarrow and the company of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at London Palladium. Harrison wanted to find a fresh face for Joseph, an undiscovered talent rather than an existing pop sensation, and plucked Yarrow out of drama school.Despite making his professional debut, he’s so assured and relaxed. She bolts on and off stage as if she’s forgotten stuff and keeps making little winking asides to the audience – and to the performers on stage. Having directed the recent productions of Miss Saigon, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera and School of Rock, it’s a scale Connor is used to. We’ve been through David Daltrey, Jason Donovan, Philip Schofield, Donny Osmond, David Cassidy, Darren Day, Lee Mead, Stephen Gately, Gareth Gates, Joe McElderry and H from Steps. And we’re still here.For its 50th anniversary, producer Michael Harrison has brought Joseph – and Jason Donovan – back to the Palladium for this joyful, colour-saturated production by Laurence Connor.