Product: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 3.0
Joseph is okay...BUT
I absolutely love both the Canadian cast and the Broadway cast soundtracks, so I was excited to see this production. I wish I could say that I was excited to HAVE seen it, but it was just okay. Donny Osmond does a great job...he's the best thing in here. I know Maria Friedberg is an up and coming name in musical theatre, but I was extremely disappointed in her performance. Her voice doesn't have the strength of the leads on the cast recordings, and she mugged her way through a lot of the numbers, which would work on stage, where everything needs to be exaggerated, but doesn't work here. (To be fair, most of the cast does the same.) It was a little distracting that the singing on some of the numbers was not syncronized with the actors' lip movements. It's better than nothing though, and everytime Donny Osmond takes center stage you forget the flaws.