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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