Royal George's 'Joseph' a mixed bag of efforts.(Time Out!)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) | December 14, 2001 | Copyright

Byline: Jack Helbig

Written originally for a school choir and only later expanded into a show, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" only rarely feels like a whole show to me.

The material is certainly bright and entertaining. This show, currently playing at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago, is easily the most lighthearted Andrew Lloyd Webber musical around.

But it is also very short. Without an intermission and the special long musical number inserted between the end of the story and the curtain call, the show would run maybe an hour ...

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