Hey guys,
Thought i'd just pop up a quick post.
Last night myself and Daisy popped on a train from Leeds to Manchester to go see Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph & The Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat, which featured X-Factor's Lloyd Daniels, Over the Rainbow's Danielle Hope and Eastender's Matt Lapinskas.
As being a huge Joseph fan since I was a little girl, I had high hopes for the show and was excited to see how they had adapted it since the last time I saw it. (2011 with Keith Jack as Joseph) I remember always wanting to be the narrator when I was growing up and after watching the movie I feel in love with Donny Osmond as he will always be my perfect Joseph.
If you have never seen the show before then you definitely should, its a Andrew Lloyd Webber classic and has been around since 1969! It's based on a story called 'coat of many colours' in the Bible's book of Genesis. Although the story is based around a biblical story, the catchy songs make it definitely some uplifting family entertainment. Also check out the DVD of it with Donny Osmond in and you won't regret it!
Okay, as I was saying I went to see the show in Manchester with X-Factor reject Lloyd Daniels *remember him?*
as Joseph, I was worried that he wouldn't be up to my expectations as I worried that he wouldn't be able to keep up with my expectations and hit the notes in 'Close Every Door' but he didn't disappoint and was really entertaining even with his welsh accent. Danielle Hope also exceeded my expectations as she was fantastic as always, I have previously seen her perform in Les Miserables in the West End. The cast is put together by 21 people who all put on an amazing show.
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Il give you a quick over-view of the show so you get the jist, The narrator begins the show singing about a man who can interpret dreams and can tell you what they mean, after that Joseph is shown and 'Any Dream Will Do' is played which is always a crowd pleaser! Then the story goes on to explain that Joseph's father gets him a multicoloured coat to show that he is his favourite son, even though he has 12 sons. The rest of the boys get jealous and sell Joseph and he is taken to Egypt and brought by Potiphar. Potiphar's wife tries to seduce Joseph and in a rage Potiphar banishes Joseph to jail. This is when my favourite song is played 'Close Every Door' this is where Joseph is feeling his lowest and is depressed and also the children's choir makes this song beautiful! After this Joseph meets Pharaohs Butler and a Bake and he explains what their dreams mean and what Pharaoh has in store for them. They tell him that Pharaoh is having weird dreams that need explaining and Joseph goes to Egypt to explain Pharaohs dreams to him. Pharaoh makes Joseph his second in command. You then start to wonder what happened to Josephs brothers? Well they are back in Canaan and they are starving so they decide to go to Egypt to get food from Pharaoh. When they arrive in Egypt they do not recognise Joseph and he gives them food but puts his golden cup into his brother's Benjamin's sack, unaware the brother start to leave when Joseph shouts for them to stop as one of them has stolen his golden cup. He threatens to throw Benjamin into a cell and throw away the key. The brothers try and make Joseph change his mind and by this Joseph can see that his brothers are now honest men and then reveals himself. After they go back to Canaan to see Josephs father, Joseph arrives in a golden carriage and sings 'Any Dream will Do' again and everyone joins in.
Sorry if that made you bored, just thought you should know the story incase you didn't.
So yes as you can see i'm extremely passionate about the show and if you get the chance please, please, please go and see it as I've said before you will not regret it!
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