Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1982 Original Broadway Cast) Music

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by: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice

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Average Rating: Rating: - KISS-Keep It Simple Silly This original BW cast recording of Joseph is not only the most enjoyable one that I have heard, it is also the defining character that shaped this timeless Biblical story into a theatrical masterpiece in simplicity which has captivated community theatre audiences, as well as Broadway theatregoers, for decades. I have experienced Joseph from the stage, the audience, and at virtually every level of performance expertise and I still say that this cast recording is powerful, captivating, and ultimately timeless. The newer cast renditions are marvelous but they "trick up" the arrangements and play to the taste of today's "bigger is better" movement in theatrical productions. My perception of this story is one of ultimate simplicity to appeal to the "child" in us all, yet Webber and Rice have managed to allow the "adult" in us all to be thoroughly filled with the wonder and passion of the Biblical story of this wonderful man, Joseph. The recording brings forth, in unerring fashion, the sheer dynamic force of the personality of every character which is highlighted by a truly magnificent rendition of the narrator. In short, as this review is certainly not, this is a recording showing all the "colors" which the Biblical story intended and worthy of anyone's time to hear!! Rating: - My First Joseph This was my first recording of Joseph. I owned it even before I saw the play on stage for the first time. Before I got the revival recordings, I would listen to this one sometimes as much as three times a day. I thought it was perfect. Now, I don't find it perfect anymore, but I do like it. Bill Hutton has an absolutely beautiful voice.I've never heard anyone do vibrato quite like him. But I don't think that he has quite the right kind of voice for his role. I think Donny Osmond's voice is much better suited for the role of Joseph. Laurie Beechman sounds as if she comanded the stage more than Joseph did. She does such an amazing "Pharaoh Story," that sometimes I just skip to that track on the CD and leave the rest unlistned to. And she gets very in to the songs. I'm sure that if she hadn't been a woman, she probably could have played Joseph. The brothers here are just the opposite of the ones on the revival recordings.While the revival brothers basicly sound good as individuals, but not so good as a group, these sound great as a group, but only so-so as individuals. Napthali sounds so much like a woman that I thought he was the narrator until I read otherwise. I don't know who's idea it was to have Potiphar do his own song, but it is interesting. I don't own the recording that has a male narrator, but with this CD, I get a taste of what it might be like. Tom Carder does an almost perfect Elvis impression, but I just don't like him as much as some others. This recording may not be the best of the bunch, but it was my first. It helped me get hooked on an amazing musical. Rating: - Great, practicaly perfect This cd is the first recording of Joseph that i listend to, i saw my local college put it on, and found out my parents owned the tape. I enjoy the cd so much that i surfed the web, found great clips of various prefomances, foun the lyrics, memorized the wohle thing, bought the 1993 US version, and listen to the CD about 3 times a day, in fact im listening to it right now. In both versions the cd or tape starts out slow, but then again they aren't acting when they recorded the cd, they are standing there, and they have no audince to play off of. But i find Laurie's voice to be great and i think that Kelli Rabke (narrator in the '93 version) to match the standards. Oh yes its true this is my favorite cd and i'm 15. No ifs no buts this i'm honest as coconuts.

Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1982 Original Broadway Cast) Music

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