Product: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 4.0
Fun
I see the family values types are caught in a bind. A sexed up children's show based on the bible. They're tying themselves in knots at Netflix trying to get themselves out of that one. I'm an Atheist and I loved it, bible, sex or no. I did not buy this DVD, I rented it. Pharaoh's song was rewritten (by ALW himself? his production company put out the flick, so I suppose so), and I infinitely preferred the original. And they hoked up the country tune "One Less Angel in Heaven" to the point that the melody was lost. Yuk! These 2 flaws will keep me from buying it. But one time through, it was wonderful. Unlike Evita, it followed the original perfectly, the music is divine, written (1st show as everyone in the know likes to point out) before Lloyd Webber lost his miraculous gift for melody. And boy did this show have melody. I recommend it for young, old, Jew or Heathen. Christians can watch too. It had color, life, clever lyrics (rife with false rhymes, Rice was no Larry Hart), and a couple of knock-outs in the leads, the narrator and Joseph. They were wonderful (everybody else was good too, only nobody else had much to do). And Donny Osmond was sexy and beautiful in the loin cloth (underpants) he wore through the last 2/3 of the show!