JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT (HAWERA)

ACT ONE

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is based on the story of Joseph from the Bible’s Book of Genesis. A Narrator opens the show by introducing Joseph, the dreamer (“Prologue”). The Narrator then draws the audience’s attention to Joseph’s father and his 12 sons (“Jacob and Sons”). Jacob has given Joseph, his youngest and favourite son, a multi-colored coat and his brothers are envious of him (“Joseph’s Coat”). The brothers’ jealousy is compounded by Joseph’s dreams, which suggest that he is destined to rule over them (“Joseph’s Dreams”). To stop this from happening they try to kill him, before changing their minds and selling him as a slave to some passing Ishmaelites (“Poor, Poor Joseph”). To hide what they have done, Joseph’s brothers and their wives tell Jacob that his beloved son has been killed by a wild animal. As proof, they show Joseph’s coat, which they have…