From Thursday, February 24th to Saturday, February 26th, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat blew away audiences at the St. Jean’s Theater. The Biblical story of Joseph is revitalized in this musical, which has a comedic and entertaining twist on the tale.

The entire cast of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat Credit: Ms. Lindberg
The entire cast of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat
Credit: Ms. Lindberg

Joseph, played by Lexi G.‘16, is his father, Jacob’s (Julia G. ‘18) favorite son. This fact becomes quite apparent to the rest of Jacob’s 11 sons, when he gifts a colorful coat to Joseph. Joseph’s prophetic dreams, which often feature his brothers, bowing down before him, do not make him a family favorite. The brothers all loathe Joseph and are jealous of the attention that Joseph gets from Jacob, so they decide to get revenge by selling Joseph into slavery in Egypt.

This complex story of family is what Ms. Lindberg, the director, found appealing about the show, as she noted in the director’s note on the program:

“Everything about this production centers around family. This is an obvious and important theme to focus on when telling the ancient story of Jacob and his twelve sons. But, in addition to playing a family onstage, this cast and crew are a family offstage. In many cases, I mean this quite literally; we have five sets of sisters involved in this show and two Hewitt drama moms on the production team.These close ties have helped to create one of the tightest knit casts that I have worked with at Hewitt. All of the girls, whether or not they are actually related, take care of each other as Hewitt sisters…”

From the astonishing stage and background colors to the jaw-dropping vocals, the musical was another successful production. Julia G. ’18 showed the audience just how quickly actresses have to change character, playing two roles, Jacob and Pharaoh.

The narrators, played by Emily D.’17 and Morgan V.K.’17,  moved the show along with their singing and Lexi G.’16 (Joseph) blew the audience away with her acting and singing. Songs such as “Poor, Poor Joseph” and “Go Go Joseph” were extremely catchy and carried the mood of each scene perfectly. Additionally, all of the choreography was spot on, thanks to Ms. Linda Van Kesteren, parent of Morgan VK.’17.

5 sets of sisters Credit: Ms. Lindberg
5 sets of biological sisters who were a part of the play Credit: Ms. Lindberg

 

To the cast and crew/family of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, congratulations on an entertaining production!

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