Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Lyrics by Tim Rice. Geelong Lyric Theatre Society, Victoria. Director: Davina Smith. Musical Director: Bradley Treloar. Choreographer: Molly Carter. Geelong Performing Arts Centre. May 5 - May 13, 2017
The Geelong Lyric Theatre Society (GLTS) production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat rockets along. Fifty minutes in, the lights announce intermission – catching me by surprise.
For those who aren’t up to date with their Bible stories or their Andrew Lloyd Webber, Joseph retells the story of the son of Jacob from Genesis 37- 50.
In 1967, Webber and Tim Rice wrote Joseph for a school’s end-of-term concert, accounting for the shortness of the musical and the way the whole story is told through song.