A favorite son and eleven jealous siblings make the foundation for the play Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat. A very popular musical by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, this story is a timeless piece of theatre that is reinvented frequently. Originally a twenty minute performance, the show is now ninety minutes long, including several terrific show tunes that tell the story of the young man and his coveted coat of many colors. The coat, given to him by his father enrages his other sons into acts of betrayal, sending Joseph on a journey of a lifetime. The play demonstrates the concept that dreams can, and do come true, even when they seem too distant or even impossible.
The plot of the play was chronological, and told the story of Joseph that so many are familiar with from the Bible. It showed Joseph's journey from his father's protection, to his brother's betrayal, to slavery in Egypt. The story is told from a third person point of view, where everyone's thoughts are available to the audience, and the personalities and angles on all of the characters are evident. There are many antagonists in the show, as all eleven of Joseph's siblings betray him into the hands of slave masters. .
One of the best parts of the play was the climax. It is then that all twelve brothers are reunited and find out that Joseph has become the second most powerful man in Egypt, and can control the well being of his brothers who betrayed him. The brothers are cowering and afraid of what their consequences might be. They assumed that they were not in danger of their plan backfiring on them, but they find out that sometimes things don't work out like you planned. This part in the story is very ironic because how could anyone predict that someone could advance from a lowly slave to someone who has almost as much power as the pharaoh. .
The story line showed how Joseph's dreams came true, even when he least expected it.
