Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is the irresistible family musical about the trials and triumphs of Joseph, Israel’s favorite son.

The plot of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat comes from the Old Testament of the Bible in Genesis, Chapter 37: “Now Jacob loved Joseph more than all his children because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a coat of many colors. And when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all of them, they hated him and could not speak peaceably unto him.” On a trip to Dothan, the brothers met a company of Ishmaelites on their way to Egypt. The jealous brothers saw an opportunity not to be missed: they stripped Joseph of his many-colored coat and sold him into slavery to the Ishmaelites. It may have been a case of good riddance for the brothers, but life is never what it seems (even in Biblical times!). Joseph, with his prophetic dreams, became a favorite of the Pharaoh and thus rose to political power. When famine struck, his brothers had to plead with Joseph for food, not recognizing him as their own brother. Joseph’s solution to Egypt’s famine elevates him to Pharaoh’s right-hand man and opens a path toward reunion with his family.

The magical musical inspired by this Old Testament tale is full of catchy songs in a variety of styles, from a parody of French ballads (“Those Canaan Days”), to country-western (“One More Angel in Heaven”) and calypso (“Benjamin Calypso”), along with the unforgettable classics “Any Dream Will Do” and “Close Every Door.”

Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber was born on March 22, 1948, and grew up in South Kensington, England. His childhood was spent in a home filled with music and he demonstrated, from an early age, an extraordinary talent for it. He is the composer of many musicals, including Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, Starlight Express, The Phantom of the Opera and Sunset Boulevard. The late Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom knighted him in 1992 as Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. He is the recipient of six Tony Awards, three Grammys, one Oscar, one Emmy, four Olivier Awards and a Golden Globe. In 2006, he was named one of five of that year’s Kennedy Center Honors recipients. Love Never Dies, a sequel to his Phantom of the Opera, opened in London in 2010. In 2011, he wrote the music for a new stage version of The Wizard of Oz. Originally starring Michael Crawford (the original star of Broadway’s Phantom of the Opera), the production opened in London in March 2011 and ran until September 2012 (followed thereafter by a production in Toronto and a U.S. tour). In 2015, his stage adaptation of School of Rock: The Musical, opened on Broadway (and ran for three years at the Winter Garden Theatre). In 2018, he published his memoir, Unmasked. His new musical version of Cinderella was one of the first shows to re-open London’s West End theater district following the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. After running for one year in London, the show came to Broadway in 2023 (under the new title Bad Cinderella) but only ran for three months. In 2023, Lloyd Webber was one of 12 composers asked to write a new piece for the coronation of Charles III and Camilla. His anthem, "Make a Joyful Noise," was performed during the enthronement of Queen Camilla. Last year, a new Broadway production of his Sunset Boulevard opened at the St. James Theatre in New York City, where it ran for 312 performances and won three Tony Awards (including Best Revival of a Musical). His foundation, the Andrew Lloyd Webber Music Program, was launched in 2013 and is one of England’s leading arts and education charities. Currently, nearly 3,000 children receive free musical instruments and music tuition throughout their school careers thanks to the foundation’s gifts.

Lyricist Tim Rice was born in Buckinghamshire, England, on November 10, 1944. He entered the world of popular music as the lead singer of the pop-rock group the Aardvarks and went on to sing occasionally with other popular rock groups of the 1960s. He published his first song, “That’s My Story,” in 1965 — the same year he met his eventual musical partner, Andrew Lloyd Webber. In addition to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, the two Englishmen collaborated on the blockbuster musicals Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita. He collaborated with composers Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson for the musical Chess. He has also worked with other notable composers, including Marvin Hamlisch and Paul McCartney, and received three Grammys for his work on Walt Disney’s Aladdin. With Elton John, he wrote the lyrics for Disney’s The Lion King. In 2010, he reunited with his Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat collaborator Andrew Lloyd Webber to create new songs for a stage version of The Wizard of Oz. Originally starring Michael Crawford (the original star of Broadway’s Phantom of the Opera), the production opened in London in March 2011 and ran until September 2012 (followed thereafter by a production in Toronto and a U.S. tour). His most recent project as a musical theater lyricist was a musical version of the World War II novel From Here to Eternity, which played in London’s West End from October 2013 through March 2014. As an EGOT, he is one of 21 people in the world to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award. He was knighted as “Sir Tim Rice” by the late Queen Elizabeth II in 1994, was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1999, and he was named a Disney Legend in 2002.

Narrator......Rachael Armbruster
Joseph......Noah Casino
Pharaoh......Micah Harvey
Pharaoh alternate......Joshua Larkin
Jacob/Potiphar......Steve Brown
Reuben......Tyler Witherstine
Simeon......Ben Gonzalez
Levi......Layne Weakland
Naphtali/Joseph understudy......Anthony Nunez
Judah......Kristopher Washington
Dan......Eli Winkfield
Asher......Paul Means
Gad......Francisco Benjerano
Issachar/Butler......Gus Korogi
Zebulon......Van Wornkey
Benjamin......Kenan Peyton Bishop
Mrs. Potiphar/Ensemble/Apache/Dance captain......Catherine Chambers
Potiphar/Jacob understudy......Sean Vollman
Swing......Malak Young

Makenna Bird
Ana Hair
Nylah Hodoh
Bria Kastner
Elena Klingler
Sadiah Slay Larkin
Ava Marie Lee
Carrie Lee
Ruth Priebe
Isabella Rodeman
Lici Sarafian

Luke Astrosky
Penny Devus
Noel Easterling
Kaitlyn Gallo
Harper Grossi
Luna Greer
Elizabeth Matheny
Maggie Repp
Mia Smalley
Kyra Rodenborn
Joss Wornkey

Belle Bokisa
Ailyn Bullen
Allison Compher
Adele DiMascio
Paisley Easterling
Serafina Finelli
Liliana Finch
Harper Fraleigh
Katherine Goshe
Madeleine Goshe
Arianna Hercules
Sophia Hollenbaugh
Alexis Legg
Leia Maglio
Mia McIntosh
Prinzo Prinzo
Garrett Sveda
Jack Varga
Alaina Wagner

ACT 1
Prologue
Narrator 

Any Dream Will Do
Joseph

Jacob and Sons
Narrator, Joseph, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Wives, Ensemble

Joseph’s Coat
Jacob, Joseph, Narrator, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Wives, Ensemble

Joseph’s Dreams
Narrator, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Joseph

Poor, Poor Joseph
Narrator, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Ishmaelites

One More Angel in Heaven
Narrator, Dan (soloist), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Reuben, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Wives, Jacob

Potiphar 
Narrator, Male Ensemble, Mrs. Potiphar, Potiphar, Joseph

Close Every Door 
Joseph

Go, Go, Go Joseph
Narrator, Butler, Baker, Ensemble, Joseph

ACT 2 
Pharaoh’s Story
Narrator

Poor, Poor Pharaoh
Narrator, Butler, Pharaoh, Ensemble

Song of the King
Pharaoh, Ensemble

Pharaoh’s Dream Explained
Joseph, Ensemble

Stone the Crows
Narrator, Pharaoh, Joseph, and Female Ensemble

Those Canaan Days
Levi (soloist), Reuben, Jacob, Reuben, Simeon, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin

The Brothers Come to Egypt/Grovel, Grovel
Narrator, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Joseph, Female Ensemble

Who’s the Thief?
 Joseph, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Female Ensemble

Benjamin’s Calypso
Simeon (soloist), Joseph, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Ensemble

Joseph All the Time
Narrator, Joseph, Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Benjamin, Female Ensemble

Jacob in Egypt
Narrator, Jacob, Ensemble

Any Dream Will Do (Reprise)
Joseph, Narrator, Jacob, Ensemble

Joseph Megamix
Full Company

There will be a 20-minute intermission between the acts.

Bradley Wyner......Music Director, Keyboard, Conductor     
Oliver Deak......Associate Music Director, Keyboard 2     
David Maxon......Guitar   
Toussaint English......Bass 
Justin Hart......Drums 

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 1968 as an end-of-term concert at a small preparatory school in West London. The first version of the show had a running time of only 15 minutes. Eventually, over a period of several years in the late 1960s and early 1970s, composer Webber and lyricist Rice expanded their show from a simple “pop oratorio” to a full-length musical-theater favorite.

The first amateur production in America was in May 1970 at the College of the Immaculate Conception in Douglaston, New York. Professionally, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat premiered at Scotland’s Edinburgh Festival in 1972. The production transferred to the Albery Theatre in London’s West End the following year. The first Broadway production, with the late Laurie Beechman as the first female to take the Narrator role, opened in January 1982 and garnered seven Tony Award nominations (including Best Musical) and ran for 747 performances. A Broadway revival opened in November 1993 and ran for 231 performances. Over many years and countless productions, the title role has been played by a succession of stars, including Gary Bond, Donny Osmond, Patrick Cassidy, and Jason Donovan.

In 2007, the show became the focus of a BBC-TV reality show, Any Dream Will Do, in which a dozen young men competed (in the style of American Idol) to play the title role of Joseph in a new West End production (which opened in July of that year and ran in London for nearly two years).

In 2014, a new U.S. national tour — starring American Idol contestants and real-life husband-and-wife Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young — kicked off in Cleveland and played at theaters across America through 2015. This touring production was directed and choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler (who in 2016 would go on to win a Tony Award for his choreography of Hamilton).

In April of 2023, Deadline.com reported that Amazon Studios would produce a film adaptation of the show in partnership with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s mass-media production company, LW Entertainment. With In the Heights and Wicked director John M. Chu attached as the film’s director, the film version remains in a pre-production state of development. Neither a start-of-filming nor a release date has been announced, according to IMDB.com.

Audiences at Weathervane Playhouse in Akron have come to embrace this production as an annual holiday tradition perfect for children, families, and the young at heart. Weathervane Playhouse first produced Joseph  and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 2000 and revived the show annually through 2014. The show returned in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2024. This year’s production marks the 21st time Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat has been produced for the Weathervane stage.