Artist: Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Genre: Theater
Background: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat, the first collaboration between Andrew Lloyd Webber
and Tim Rice, tells the story of a young man named Joseph
living in the land of Canaan. His father's favorite son, Joseph
is perhaps a little spoiled. While the rest of his brothers
are forced to wear sheepskin, he struts around in a fabulous
rainbow-colored coat, a gift from his adoring father. The
rest of Joseph's brothers aren't too pleased with the situation,
and when Joseph goes so far as to tell them of a dream he
has had in which their stacks of wheat bow down to his stack
of wheat, they decide they have finally had enough.
Jacob lived in Biblical times and had twelve sons of whom
Joseph was his favorite. Joseph's brothers resented the favoritism
and the fact that Joseph had high aspirations. Jacob gave
Joseph a beautiful coat and that was the last straw for his
brothers. They threw him in a pit and were going to leave
him when they were approached by Egyptians. They changed their
minds and sold Joseph off to slavery in Egypt, telling their
father he had been killed by a goat. Through hard work and
his ability to interpret dreams, Joseph works his way up the
Egyptian social ladder until he is the assistant to the Pharaoh.
When a famine strikes, Joseph's brothers end up in Egypt begging
Joseph for food. After testing them, Joseph gives them food
and reveals his identity and the whole family moves to Egypt.
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