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Australian Arts

Genesis of a Dreamcoat

16 July 2022

9:00 AM

16 July 2022

9:00 AM

Just the other day came the announcement that a new production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat was to open at Melbourne’s Regent on November 11. It’s early Andrew Lloyd Webber and it has the charm that comes from a composer and lyricist –Tim Rice in this case – fiddling with a musical form without self-consciousness or grandiosity.

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