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...follow your dream, who knows, it may come true--this is the message that director Scott Arsenault's adaptation of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat so energetically and dramatically portrays...
...Rice and Webber have based this artistically and visually stimulating musical on Chapters 37-50 of Genesis in the Bible. They trace the life of Joseph, the favorite and youngest of Jacob's 12 sons...
...part of a package with other pay services. In either case Disney reduces its own fee. The channel freely capitalizes on the promotional value of the Disney name by sending classic cartoon characters to malls, parades and ribbon-cutting ceremonies. Says Christopher Dixon, a media analyst for Paine Webber: "Disney has a very clear franchise, and they promote it extensively...
...choristers decked out in liturgical robes, the angelic, sexless piping of boy sopranos, the hovering vicars, the culturally resonant majesty of the cathedral setting -- the whole High Church atmosphere has consistently evoked a corresponding High Seriousness in composers as disparate as Handel, John Stainer, Elgar and Andrew Lloyd Webber...
...narrative with snippets of dialogue, some in blank verse (and occasionally in blank mind), and a stompfest of '50s and '60s rock standards (Shake, Rattle and Roll; Great Balls of Fire; Born to Be Wild). London bestowed on it the Olivier award, passing over Miss Saigon and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love. Now the song and story are back where they were born, in the U.S.A., and it all makes for a delightfully silly evening...