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ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER

Great Performances – Reopening: The Broadway Revival

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Go behind the scenes of Broadway as shows reunite, rehearse and re-stage for their long-awaited reopening nights while the theater industry learns how to turn the lights back on after its longest hiatus in history due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Great Performances: The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert

The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall

About the Program

The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall, a fully-staged, lavish 25th anniversary mounting of Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running Broadway and West End extravaganza, comes to Great Performances in March (check local listings). Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess star in a spectacular presentation ...

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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Production Credits

Cast of Characters Donny Osmond: Joseph Maria Friedman: The Narrator Richard Attenborough: Jacob Ian McNeice: Potiphar Joan Collins: Mrs. Potiphar Robert Torti: Pharaoh Christopher Biggins: The Baker Alex Jennings: The Butler Nicolas Colicos: Reuben Jeff Blumenkrantz: Simeon David J. Higgins: Levi Shaun Henson: Napthali Patrick ...

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Additional Web Resources

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat www.josephvideo.com Check out The Really Useful Group's official "Joseph" video Web site, which features a history of the production, a photo gallery, a 1999 production diary, and downloadable screensavers and musical E-cards. Walters State Stage Company: "Joseph and the ...

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Behind the Scenes

Owning the rights to your own work must be the ideal for any creative artist, but in the nature of the show-business beast, you more usually end up owned. The first half of the 1990s was a period in which Andrew Lloyd Webber set about ...

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

A Look at the Work

The cast in the new video version is led by Donny Osmond, who has played Joseph on stage across America in the version first directed by Royal Shakespeare Company associate Steven Pimlott at the London Palladium in 1991. The blonde narrator is Maria Friedman, well ...

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Meet the Artists

"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" was the musical that put Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice on the map. And its humble beginnings as a simple pop cantata with a Biblical theme in a school hall in March 1968 are all part of its ...

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Donny Osmond’s Introduction to the Program

England would be unthinkable without her rich tradition of church music. For generations, the soaring sounds of a boys choir have practically defined what it means to be British. But over the past 30 years, the world's ideas of English music has undergone a startling ...

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Introduction

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's enduringly popular musical favorite "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" comes to television in a production starring Donny Osmond, Maria Friedman, Richard Attenborough, and Joan Collins. Beginning its life in 1967 as a 20-minute "pop cantata" for a school ...