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Show I ' " ' -"" 1 f J - ., ! J ; w , - 1 U' ul"t J -jA 'jtf. vifiri(trvii tfiitH 'i - I J, ' I ' 1 1 . j ' f A . ' 1 1 ; uuii II ill VH ... . Joseph (Calvin Johnson) shows off his coat of many colors to his brothers (Troy Lunt and Dennis Lee) in a scene from the Webber-Rice musical, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Tech-nicolor Dreamcoat." 'Joseph' to encore in Salt Lake City "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," after a hit run in the fall, will return to the Promised Pro-mised Valley Playhouse Jan. 3. The repeat engagement at the Salt Lake City theater will run until Jan. 25. "I've always been amazed at the kind of appeal it (the show) has," said director Dennis Ferrin. "It's absolute fun. It's just outrageous." Using every kind of genre and rhythm imaginable, composer Andrew An-drew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice fashioned the musical after a story taken from the Book of Genesis. Joseph, Jacob's favorite son, is scorned by his 11 jealous brothers after his father gives him a rainbow-colored rainbow-colored coat. They impulsively sell Joseph into slavery in Egypt, where his adventures really begin. Joseph wisely interprets Pharaoh's disturbing dreams and saves Egypt from famine. When his down-and-out kin finally arrive begging beg-ging for food, Joseph finds it in his heart to forgive them. One Salt Lake City critic said of the show, "If you can beg, borrow or steal a ticket to this show, don't miss it." Ferrin calls it "a fun, modern telling tell-ing of the Bible story. It's not until people get home that they realize there wasn't any dialogue it's that fast-paced." According to Webber, dialogue ruins the "architectural quality" of musical theater. "The most important thing for the composer is to be able to control the piece from A to B," he said in a 1981 interview in Opera News magazine. "If you have any dialogue, no matter how brilliant, that interrupts the flow. It means the composer is not in the driver's seat. Everything I've done has been wholly musical no dialogue." There is little doubt the formula works well. Webber and Rice followed follow-ed "Joseph," originally a 25-minute cantata written for children, with such hits as "Evita" and "Starlight Express." Webber's Tony Award-winning Award-winning "Cats" continues to play to sold-out houses in London and New York City, while "Song and Dance" has received a warm welcome. The cast of "Joseph" includes Colleen Col-leen Viola, Blake Ferrin, Sue Erickson, Calvin Johnson, Brent Viertel and Scott Perez. Marilyn Montgomery is the choreographer, Ferrin created the set and Megan McCormick designed the lighting. Val David Smithson is musical director and Jolene Dalton is narrator. nar-rator. The show will play Wednesdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at the box of-fipp(H2S of-fipp(H2S StnteSI I '.tw? |
