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 the