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Joseph

Location: Adelphi Theatre

On the stage of the Adelphi Theatre, Joseph continues to don his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for adoring crowds as the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical continues its incredible journey at the West End.

Following on from television hit show Any Dream Will Do, Joseph is enjoying the kind of success it felt back in the 1990s when Jason Donovan took on the role and made it his own. Today, the big names continue to inhabit the character with Gareth Gates the most recent incarnation following on from Lee Mead, the winner of Any Dream Will Do, chosen above all others to take on the role by Andrew Lloyd Webber himself.

It’s hard to believe that this monumentally successful musical started out simply as a fifteen minute school composition, but that is exactly the case and it mirrors the success of another West End musical – Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers. That show was also written as a school play and only found success later on. It goes to show that you should never bin your work from high school.

Since those days countless generations have been thrilled by Joseph’s amazing story and the popularity of the show looks set to continue for some time, with big crowds continuing to witness the great plot and the classic songs.

Joseph And the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat finds its routes in the Bible’s book of Genesis and it introduces us to Joseph, his father Jacob and his envious brothers. Jacob gives Joseph a gift in the form of the Technicolor Dreamcoat of the musical’s title and sets in motion a chain of events they couldn’t have foreseen. It is not simple for Joseph and he has little time to enjoy his new gift before his jealous brothers decide to seek revenge and hand him over to the Ishmaelite as a slave. But this is not the end of the matter and Joseph is about to find himself getting further and further into a desperate situation; from there he is forced to travel to Egypt where he becomes a slave once again, but this time to the Egyptian Potiphar.

But it would not be Joseph without some great songs to propel the story forwards, and as an audience for this great show you can sing along to the likes of “Any Dream Will Do”, “One More Angel In Heaven” and “Close Every Door To Me”.