When
Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook produced a sexy, pop-culture-y
Joseph several critics were horrified. The Chicago Tribune claimed it was "shorn of all heart and emotion." 'But wait,' said I, 'isn't
Joseph already a sexy, pop-culture-y show shorn of all heart and emotion?' It certainly has been in the three professional productions and
Webber produced TV film I've seen.
Joseph is a weird show. A fairly grim story from the Book of Genesis retold as a sexy panto and performed by schools. As Bible musicals go it's closer in tone to the silly
Godspell than Webber's angsty
Jesus Christ Superstar. But who knows? Maybe some day I'll see a production that changes my mind.
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