October 17, 2024: Andrew Lloyd Webber I: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968-1973); Jesus Christ Superstar (1971)
Class Preparation
Recommended Reading:
- Broadway: The American Musical: "Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cats," pages 358-361 (This section provides background for the next two classes as well.)
- Handout of Key Class 5 slides
- Class 5 Selected Lyrics
Links & Playlists
Links:
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Full performance starring Donny Osmond and Maria Friedman--"specially filmed for video" in 1999) It's lavish and on YouTube apparently for free. Here are the timings of the songs I featured in class: [2:43] Prologue and "Any Dream Will Do," [19:05] "One More Angel in Heaven," [30:00] "Close Every Door," [45:22] "Song of the King," [53:40] "Those Canaan Days," [1:06:33] "Benjamin Calypso"
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1992 Original Canadian Cast Recording with Donny Osmond)
- Jesus Christ Superstar (Original 1970 "Concept Album")
- Jesus Christ Superstar (Excerpts from the 2018 Live in Concert Broadcast with John Legend, Brandon Victor Dixon and Sara Bareilles)
- Class 5 Videos