Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Undoubtedly fun and creative, but disappointingly sexual, Andrew Lloyd Webber has done it again and created yet another fantastic musical that while great may cause parents to think twice before plopping down on the couch with their children to watch it.The music itself is this movie's selling point, of course.

This is a well-written and fun little musical. The format in the video was jarring at first, but once I realized they were basically "presenting" the musical to a school, I adjusted.

It's always hard trying to capture a musical on film, and while this does a good job, if you really want to see 'Joseph' in all it's technicolor glory you're best off going to the theatre and seeing it live.

This filmed version of the play is both enjoyable and annoying. The story is a tuneful, mostly cheerful telling of the highlights of Joseph's story from his coat of many colors to slavery to power, but those looking for a reverent Bible story will be disappointed in this mocking and sarcastic show.

In the "Corona-lockdown-world" context, and in the light of the online Youtube screening within Universal's "The Shows Must Go On" framework, it is good to have the chance to see - with a new clarity - a show that I personally have seen in various forms and places several times, since I was a kid in the 1970s.It is not by chance that we still read The Bible after thousands of years - many of the tales in it are splendid, and "Joseph and his coat of many colours" from Genesis has a number of eternal ingredients like human frailty, forgiveness, favouritism, immodesty, cruelty, jealousy, good fortune, betrayal, rags-to-riches, and so on; as well as a remarkable Egyptian-Israelite cross-cultural aspect.

Boy, I wish we had assemblies like this when I was in school!I was introduced to Andrew Lloyd Webber and the wonderful lyricist Tim Rice through Jesus Christ Superstar.

I swear to god, I have never in me life ever seen this musical film before. I was only a toddler in 1999 and no one ever mentioned this to me until back in 2013, I was in Lourdes and we were singing away at the songs.

This filmed version of the popular stage play stars Donny Osmond, who is very funny in the role that made him even more adored than he was as youngest of the singing Osmond Brothers. Cleverly filmed as a classroom presentation with the students as the chorus, the biblically based story of attempted fratricide and the importance of hope and forgiveness is told entirely in music, with Maria Friedman as the narrator and Joan Collins as the greedy wife of of the Potiphar, captain of the Egyptian palace guard.

I've always felt that music was the best way to proselytize the Christian Bible. rather than seeming scary or intimidating(it sometimes is) music gives it a softer touch and gives it the feel of 'the good book' concept we are taught in Sunday school.