John Colton's blog

I took Leslie and Emily on a date on Friday, to go see a local high school's production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. It was well done! We hadn't seen the musical ourselves until maybe a year ago, when we borrowed the Donny Osmond version from some friends in the branch (Justin and Kalena Wyleski). We liked it so much we bought our own copy. Consequently the kids had seen it many times, and were very familiar with the songs. In fact, I had to warn them that it would not be appropriate for them to sing along!

It seemed like many in the audience were *not* familiar with the movie, though, and many of the abrupt style changes caught people completely off guard--and cracked them up. I do have to admit that the Pharoah as Elvis caught me a little off guard too, not because the style was unexpected, but because his moves were just a bit more risquee than I'd expect from a high schooler--it was a Catholic High School, too! But thankfully stuff like that still goes over the kids' heads. And it was all pretty much in good fun.