As some of you know, we have season tickets to the Davis Musical Theater Company productions. The current show is the Andrew Lloyd Webber production "Joseph's Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", a rather jazzy, stylized version of the biblical story of Joseph, the son of Jacob who was sold into Egypt as a slave and turned out to be the salvation of his family. I think it was a chance for Webber to show he could write music in several different genres - cabaret, western, rock & roll, etc.
We subscribe for four tickets so that we can invite friends to go with us. This time we were delighted to be able to invite Shannah, a friend and former co-worker from Alta California Regional Center, and her partner Kathy to go with us. Shannah is a minister for the Unity church and was very familiar with the music of the musical (and the story of Joseph, of course) but hadn't been able to see the actual show until now. Prior to the show, they treated us to a fine dinner at the Jade Palace in Davis.
This production was as fine as any we've seen and we've seen some fine productions of "Joseph". I believe it has been said that the quality of the "Joseph" productions varies inversely with how serious the production tries to be. In other words, the more fun you have the better the production. Based on that, I'd say this group really had fun putting it on. And the set and music were also great.
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