TCR Playbills Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | Page 26

PASSING THE JOYS
OF THE AMAZING
COLORED COAT TO
A NEW GENERATION
OF PERFORMERS
EVERY EXPERIENCE PUTTING
ON A SHOW BRINGS WITH IT
SOME MAGIC, whether you make new
friends, hone new talents, discover new
favorite songs, or just gel as an ensemble
and have a great time bringing a show to
life. I think I can speak for everyone when
I say that the production of Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor ® Dreamcoat that I
had the honor of doing on this stage 19
years ago was all of those things.
As with all casts and crews though, our
many-colorful ensemble long ago dispersed
to the winds. Some moved far away. Some
(like me!) moved away and came back.
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Some kept performing here and on
stages around the world. Some even
graduated from performing on this stage
to directing and choreographing and
teaching classes at TCR.
Aside from the universal challenge of
fitting every word of Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor ® Dreamcoat on
our theater résumés (for the record,
Joseph/Dreamcoat seems to be the
industry standard), our 1999 cast
has always enjoyed indelible shared
memories like our Jacob (the beloved
TCR legend Gene Whiteman)
beeping like a truck as he backed