Product: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 5.0
JOseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Two college friends (Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber)got together to write a light musical for a school project and years later it becomes an international hit with productions being mounted everywhere from small elementary schools to lavish Broadway extravaganzas. Who'd a thunk it? But this DVD is able to give the viewer both the flavor of seeing that "Next Door Neighbor" in the local production as well as all the glitz that broadway has to offer. The staging is superb, beginning in a small English scholl auditorium, we are rapidly transported to Broadway and back again (With enough stops in between to give any travel agent a dizzy spell). The acting and singing are superb, with the most unlikely of "Teachers" finding their way into the Biblical story of Joseph. The staight-laced piano/music teacher is transformed into a bomshell of a seductress (Joan Collins). The Headmaster becomes the head of the house of Isael, Jacob (Richard Attenborough), And that former Teen Idol , and now Game-Show host, Donny Osmond, is wonderful in the Title role of Joseph. And you'll never guess what character shows up to to portray the Pharoh (Pharoh, isn't another name for "The King") The story is artfully narrated by the singing and acting Talents of that star of the London stage, Maria Friedman. Entertaining for all ages, do not miss the opportunity to see the transformation of this moving Biblical story into a thouroughly Entertaining piece of theater that has a message fo everyone.