Product: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 4.0
Awesome performance, entertaining, but who's the audience?
I first heard this on a vinyl LP in 1989, so I had memories of what I thought it was to look like (based on the LP cover). It seems to me that things have certainly been "jazzed" up a bit. I think Donny played an excellent Joseph, and Maria Friedman played a pretty good narrator. My biggest qualm was the costumes. I thought it was a bit much for the women in the Pharaoh scenes to wear nothing but fishnet clothes. This is a biblically based story. I'd feel obligated to inform friends (especially those with young kids) about the costumes beforehand. I was a little disappointed to see this in the musical. The entire musical seems geared toward children, but yet the way it is presented may suggest otherwise. The music was like I remembered it, however.All in all I enjoyed the video. I just felt disappointed to have to tell parents to check it out first when it's a Christian story. The children in the video seemed to be the target audience. Tone down the costumes and the suggestive gestures, and it would get an A+.