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The new production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat will open in London at the Adelphi Theatre on Tuesday 17 July, following previews from 6 July.
As previously reported, auditions for the show’s cast are currently taking place in the very public arena of the TV talent show Any Dream Will Do, which follows on from the success of last year’s How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? That program led to the casting of Connie Fisher in the current hit London run of The Sound of Music. Any Dream Will Do airs on Saturday nights on BBC 1, with Lloyd Webber leading the panel of judges.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat tells the classic Biblical tale of Jacob and his 12 sons. Joseph, one of the youngest and most loved of Jacob’s children, falls out of favour with his jealous brothers as he interprets dreams and receives special gifts from his father. Angry and upset, Joseph’s brothers sell him as a slave to a band of passing nomads. Hoping to rid themselves of Joseph forever, the brothers instead set in motion a powerful string of events which lead to Joseph’s installation as the king of Egypt’s right-hand man.
With lyrics by Rice and music by Lloyd Webber, this new staging of the late director Steven Pimlott’s 1990s London Palladium production will once again be designed by Mark Thompson and choreographed by Anthony Van Laast.