Joseph — Page 2

When I did Joseph a few years ago we split the Narrator in two (It was a kids production so part of it was range and part was just making us happy.)

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in the original work, there was no part of NARRATOR, and all that music was sung by a chorus, which sounded GREAT.

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I did JOSEPH... and my Narrator couldn't sing most of the score the way it was written (The original Bill Hutton/Laurie Beechman key), so we had to drop most of the score down three steps (saving the opening "Any Dream Will Do", "Close Every Door", "Grovel, Grovel", "Who's the Thief?", and the "Any Dream... Finale"). I think when you take the key for JOSEPH down, it transforms the score to a very different mood, darker and almost contorted. The part of Joseph is written as a tenor because the character is young, light and buoyant, not a gruff and older man. I disagree with the changing of key in general, but especially when it affects the show itself. Andrew Lloyd Weber wrote in the keys he did intentionally.

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Even so, they're in the keys they're in for a reason.

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well, Joseph probably wasn't ripped off from ALW's other works because it was the first thing he wrote.

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I am sick of hearing about ALW taking songs from other people or himself and adding them to his musicals. Almost everyone does that. If you listen to the end of "If I Love You" from Carousel, it is the same as the end of "Dis Flower" from Carmen Jones (Actually it comes from Bizet's Carmen but I don't know the title of the song from the Opera). People bash on Webber because it is the quote, unquote "cool thing to do." I say Pistosh. Leave the man alone.

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Updated On: 12/13/04 at 08:55 PM

Can't forget "Cats" in the opening

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