Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1993 Los Angeles Cast)
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Composer: Andrew Lloyd WebberComposer: Tim Rice
Performer: Michael Damian
Performer: Robert Torti
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
Published: 1993
CD Release Date: 1993-06-22
Music Label: Really Useful Records/Polydor (Decca Broadway)
Product features:
- Manufactured in the E.E.C.
- A Double Play CD with 22 track
- Prologue
- Any Dream Will Do
- Jacob & Sons/Joseph's Coat
- Joseph's Dreams
- Poor, Poor Joseph
- One More Angel In Heaven
- Potiphar
- Close Every Door
- Go, Go, Go Joseph
- Pharaoh Story
- Poor, Poor Pharaoh
- Song Of The King (Seven Fat Cows)
- Pharaoh's Dreams Explained
- Stone The Crows
- Those Cannaan Days
- The Brothers Come To Egypt/Grovel, Grovel
- Who's The Thief?
- Benjamin Calypso
- Joseph All The Time
- Jacob In Egypt
- Finale: Any Dream Will Do/ Give Me My Colored Coat
- Joseph Megamix
Music reviews of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1993 Los Angeles Cast)
Music Review: a decent performance
Rating: 2 Stars
if you are looking for a cd of joseph... then this may be the one for you...or maybe not. Michael Damien is hardly passes for a decent Joseph. His voice is extreemly "breathy" and lacks all quality and tone that Joseph is meant to have. However, his performance is compensated by Kelli Rabke (The narrator) who delivers a stunning performance. If you are interrested in the cd for listening to the narrator that by all means go for it, but if you want to have it for joseph than look somewhere else. While it does not take much to surpass Damien's performance, Donny Osmand does a good job. However, his "pop-singer" voice tends to be an extreem bother to a trained singers ears. He has all the technique of a boys band (not much). However, some do tend to like him and his type of singing and if so thank knock your socks off. My recomondation if one is to buy a cd of "Joseph..." would be to go with the original broadway cast. Laurie Beachman is (in my opinion) the best narrator who has ever sung the part. While her voice is somewhat an "acquired taste" and may take some time to appriciate the time it takes is absolutly worth it. Her voice is best compared to a young Betty Buckley. Beechman bealts this role, with her increadible vocal power, and brings the essence that this role requires. She shines out all the other narrators on these cd's. Bill Hutton is a superb Joseph as well. He has ability that Damien and Osmond lackto make this role what it is. While he may not have the largest voice, it is a beautiful one and (in my opinion) give the best portrail or Joseph. I believe that The original Broadway cast is the ideal recording of "Joseph..." for the true music conniseur. But the others are still enjoyable (at least when Michael Damien is not singing). Happy hunting everyone.
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Description of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1993 Los Angeles Cast)
The original Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, has celebrated a triumphant comeback on the West End stage! Following in the foot steps of the Sound Of Music, the part of Joseph and the Pharaoh are being played by Lee Mead and Dean Collinson, the winners of the BBC1 talent search show Any Dream Will Do. The album features the 22 tracks of the original Joseph album featuring Jason Donovan and includes his number one single from 1991 'Any Dream Will Do', as well as Lee Mead's equally successful version of the same track in 2007. Polydor.If you were to think this 1993 Los Angeles revival cast of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat sounds a lot like the 1991 London revival cast and the 1992 Canadian revival cast, you'd be right. All three use the glitzy version of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's school-cantata-turned-musical based on the biblical story of Joseph and his coat of many colors, which debuted with the London revival in 1991 and became the basis for most subsequent productions, as well as the video version. Yes, the "Joseph Megamix" is here, along with the witty lyrics and catchy melodies that borrow freely from country, calypso, French cafés, and Elvis--as well as favorites "Any Dream Will Do," "Close Every Door," and "Go, Go, Go Joseph." And orchestral credits, cover art, and running time are almost exactly the same, leading one to believe that the various casts recorded their vocals over the same prerecorded orchestral tracks.
So is there any difference between the three? Yes, the singers, most notably the role of the narrator and the title character. The London production starred Linzi Hateley as the narrator and Australian pop singer Jason Donovan as Joseph. For the 1992 Canadian cast, former teen pop sensation Donny Osmond took over the title role, with Janet Metz as the narrator. For this 1993 Los Angeles cast, Michael Damian was Joseph and Kelli Rabke the narrator. All the narrators are solid, though Hateley is probably the best overall. The biggest difference is Osmond, the clear winner with a terrific voice and irresistible warmth, contrasted with Donovan's somewhat thick and heavy singing and Damian's rather deliberate pronunciation. You really don't need more than one of these Josephs, and the Canadian cast is the one to have. --David Horiuchi
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