Justin's Theatre Reviews

  "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" is a very special show to me. It is one of the first cast recordings that I have owned and it is one of the first musicals that I fell in love with and made me into the person that I am today. I have seen the movie version featuring Donny Osmond many times and it never fails to impress me and make me fall in love with it all over again. When it was announced that the national tour would be coming to my city around this time last year, I was thrilled because I have never seen a real production of "Joseph". Like the Donny Osmond movie, this production won me over, yet again.    As if you didn't already know (and if you don't then what are you doing?), "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a sung through show, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice, that is based on the bible story about a boy named Joseph who is given a multicolored coat that leads him through good times, bad

 There are so many straight plays that I haven't heard of. You could probably go down a list of 100 straight plays and chances are that I have heard of at least twenty of them, but am only familiar with six of them. Last night, I saw one of the straight plays that I have never heard of. Every so often, I see a straight play and whenever I do, I say "Ugh, a play" and then I end up enjoying it. And I will tell you that is what happened last night when I attended a performance of the Kids n Co. production of "A Company of Wayward Saints".    "A Company of Wayward Saints" (written by George Herman)  is about a group of performers who are performing for a duke who will give the group money to go home if they do well. It is quite an amusing little show. The written material isn't quite the best, but it certainly isn't bad. The first act moves at a rapid pace, while the second act moves at a very slow pace, causing the show to lag at certain points.