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Tim Rice (book)
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Release Date:
5 April 2000 (USA) more
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Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber's Classic Family Musical
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A humourously musical retelling of the Biblical story of Joseph. full summary | add synopsis
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1 win & 3 nominations more
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(14 articles)
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Ah, a return to my own childhood more (53 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Donny Osmond | ... | Joseph | |
| Maria Friedman | ... | Narrator | |
| Richard Attenborough | ... | Jacob | |
| Joan Collins | ... | Mrs. Potiphar | |
| Christopher Biggins | ... | The Baker | |
| Robert Torti | ... | Pharaoh | |
| Alex Jennings | ... | Butler | |
| Nicholas Colicos | ... | Reuben | |
| Ian McNeice | ... | Potiphar | |
| Jeff Blumenkrantz | ... | Simeon | |
| David J. Higgins | ... | Levi | |
| Patrick Clancey | ... | Isaachar | |
| Shaun Henson | ... | Napthali | |
| Martin Callaghan | ... | Asher | |
| Sebastien Torkia | ... | Dan |
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Great Performances: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (USA) (series title)
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76 min
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Several of the cast members were already veterans of the musical. Nicholas Colicos, Michael Small, Amanda Courtney-Davies and Wayne Fowkes all played the same roles at the London Palladium in 1991 (with Patrick Clancy playing the same role as well as the Baker). And in the Broadway production in 1993, Robert Torti and Gerry McIntyre also played the same roles as here. Donny Osmond himself had also played Joseph several times in U.S. tours. Also, all the sets and costume designs are based on the Los Angeles version. more
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Miscellaneous: During the Jacob & Sons number when each of the brothers introduce themselves, Levi says his name and accidentally bumps into the Narrator who is clearly caught off guard. more
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Reuben: When I think of his last great battle, A lump comes to my throat. It Takes a man who knows no fear to wrestle... with a goat. more
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Version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (1991) (TV) more
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Close Every Door more
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Nearly thirty years ago, the church choir I was a member of staged an entertainment evening, the first half of which was a 45-minute 'sung story' called Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. Nearly thirty years on, and I have a chance to show my own children what a wondrous musical this was and continues to be.
I also have to confess that, when I first heard of this release, I was one of those people who went 'Donny Osmond???!!??'. Again, this was coloured by memories of 30-odd years of knowing him as a 70's teenybopper, but I have to admit that I was very pleasently surprised by his performance here. The years he spent playing Joseph on stage show in his performance, and it also made me forget Jason Donovan or Philip Schofield in the part.
The film succeeds both by acknowledging the most recent stage productions, and returning to its roots. It was originally written as a school stage show, and the prologue in the assembly hall returns to it to the original setting. Having the teachers (and yes, I took a double take on Joan Collins on the piano) go on to be the singers and actors grounds the film, and the opening up of the stage setting is done without ever letting you forget it was a stage show.
The support cast are all good - it's especially satisfying to see the likes of Richard Attenborough and Christopher Biggins doing musicals again after nearly 30 years as well. Joan Collins has a whale of a time as Mrs Potiphar, and Pharaoh gets down and rocks with the best of them. Maria Freidman as the narrator shows her vocal range to perfection - currently she is the main attraction in the stage show of Witches of Eastwick.
All in all, good family fun, and worth watching with your kids.