One of the hardest parts of the last year with Covid was watching theatre after theatre canceling or postponing their summer shows and season. One of those theatres was Urbandale Community Theatre (UCT), who had announced a big summer production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." Thankfully, they were able to postpone the production to this summer. If you've been looking for a production to come back to the theatre with, then this fun and joyous production is just the right shoe for you.
If you aren't familiar with "Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat," it is a musical by two of the theatre industry's most prolific writers, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. It starts with a narrator, or as this show narrators, who set out to inspire a group of young dreamers by telling them the story of a dreamer just like them by the name of Joseph. We meet Joseph when his father gives him a multi-colored coat. His 11 brothers soon become jealous and devise a plan to get rid of their brother. As they enact their plan, they come across a group of travelers and send Joseph off. These travelers take him along with them to Egypt, where while he is serving Potiphar, he is accused incorrectly of sleeping with Potiphar's wife and is thrown in jail. While it may not seem like the story of dreams coming true, act two is where things start to turn around. How does his story end? That you will have to head to Urbandale to see.