“Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” or “Any Dream Will Do”!

As I already said the other day, musicals for me are the great anti-depressants. Today I felt really sad and lonely, but I remembered a wonderful musical - “Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”. When I feel sad this amazing musical of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice gives me hope that “Any Dream Will Do” and that:

We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not

But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real

You are what you feel

Amazing lyrics, huh?

I wish the revival of the musical will be on Broadway soon, like it is in London right now. This musical is one of the musicals I dreamed to see live for a long time. And if some of my little dreams already came true (Like Wicked, Billy Elliot or West Side Story, for example) this one (Joseph) is still pending.

I have been watching and listening the “Prologue” and “Any Dream Will Do” on YouTube like all day and night, and going to keep listening it.

I like the movie version of the musical with Donny Osmond and Maria Friedman. I bought it on DVD in Saint-Petersburg (Russia) several years ago. It’s such an interesting and inspiring production. I like the set of the whole production. The stage situated in a school gym, and they are performing in front of kids (they are audience and the chorus at the same time). The show starts with the famous “Prologue”, which is one of my favorite songs from the musical theatre of all times. In the beginning it looks like the “Narrator” (Maria Friedman) is going to do some kind of lecture on the stage. We see her, kids, even some teachers. It’s very funny. Then the famous music starts, the first words of the lyrics are sung and the magic begins. I like Maria Friedman in this production a lot. She’s just an amazing actress. I can watch her performance over and over thousands times. Such an interesting face expressions, such an amazing acting, such an energy that I really believe that “if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real, You are what you feel”.
Then she goes to the end of the school gym and opens the doors. Huge amount of stage fog fills the space and we see a figure of a man in the doors – that’s Joseph (Donny Osmond). “Any dream will do” begins. I like Donny as a Joseph a lot too (not as much as Maria Friedman as a Narrator though).

So that’s how this amazing production begins. I hope someday I will be able to see it live on Broadway or West End and make a review of the show. But now all I can do is to watch the movie version of the show again and again and… DREAM:

But all that I say can be told another way

In the story of a boy whose dream came true
And it could be you…