Word: technicoloration
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...subjected to this disturbing spectacle last weekend in Chicago, where I went to visit my grandparents, whom I have now written out of my will. The musical in question was "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," and it was the most awful think I have witnessed in my 22 years on this earth...
...Lantz's Woody Woodpecker is probably the most universally recognized laugh since Santa Claus first ho-ho-hoed -- an enduring, if somewhat annoying, piece of Americana. Lantz, known more for his craftsmanship than his originality, ran his own animation studio by the late 1920s, where he produced the first Technicolor cartoon and a host of characters like Andy Panda and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. None came close to the success of Woody Woodpecker, who first hit the screen in 1940. Lantz reveled in the probably apocryphal tale of a woodpecker who disturbed his honeymoon but inspired his best-known creation...
Although the production is competently executed and insipidly entertaining, it is unclear why it is being revived. When Grease arrives on Broadway it will join revivals of Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, and Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Good shows all, but the expense of producing a Broadway production steers investors toward sure bets like those and away from new musicals. This leaves a season that entertains tourists but is artistic junk food...
...could call Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat underproduced. Like Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express, what started life as a sweet little piece for children has been inflated to epic vulgarity. The revival that opened on Broadway last week stars a sphinx somewhat shinier and more purple than the original, plus smaller versions of the pyramids and New York City's Chrysler Building. There's one lively visual joke: after a famine, the sheep Joseph's family tended reappear as skeletons. On the human scale, the show stars Michael Damian's pectoral muscles, which are on all but nonstop display...
...perhaps 1956, when this season's My Fair Lady gave elocution a song and dance? Maybe it's 1955, when this season's Damn Yankees first proved that whatever Lola wants, Lola gets. Perhaps it's as modern as 1968, when this season's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat first displayed the talents of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Or perhaps it's as far back as 1945, when this season's most eagerly awaited musical, Carousel, first revealed heaven on earth. By season's end the year may seem as contemporary as 1972, when the tentatively scheduled Grease first revved...