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The Warehouse Theatre Company is bringing back the summer musical in a big way tonight when it opens Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat."
The Warehouse's Crayola-colored production -- seriously, you've got to see this set -- features a cast of more than 50 actors, singers and musicians. Together, they'll tell the biblical story of Joseph, whose jealous brothers sell him into slavery only to find themselves at his mercy 10 years later.
"The talent in this show is phenomenal," says director Brandon Lamb, who played Joseph when the Warehouse last mounted this show in 2001. "Every day I have to remind myself how fortunate I am to have this cast."
This summer's "Joseph" features a children's choir and live band, and stars a number of former high school theater stand-outs including Emily Stephenson (Narrator) and Alex Rumbolz (Joseph), who along with choreographer Johnny Wilson worked together on Eisenhower High School's lauded 2008 production of "High School Musical."
Producer Julianne Gobervile calls the cast a charming, eclectic group with varying experience that has jelled well together.
Performances are at 7:30 tonight and Saturday, Wednesday through July 25, July 29-Aug. 1 and Aug. 5-8 at the Warehouse Theatre in the Allied ArtsCenter, 5000 W. Lincoln Ave.
Tickets cost $17.50 for general admission and $15 for seniors and students through the Warehouse Theatre box office, 509-966-0951. Box office hours are 3 to 6 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and noon to 6 p.m. Saturdays.
-- Kim Nowacki
THE 2009-10 SEASON
"Joseph" kicks off the Warehouse's 2009-10 season, which features four other performances. Season tickets cost $65 and are available through the Warehouse box office. Individual tickets go on sale a week before each show opens. The shows:
* Sept. 25-Oct. 10 -- Set in Munich in 1935, the joyous colors, music and excitement of Oktoberfest clash with the fear, suspicion and horrors of Hitler's Germany in "October Festival" by Wallace Dace.
* Nov. 26-Dec. 12 -- Instead of performing Charles Dickens' holiday classic for the umpteenth time, three actors decide to perform "Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!)" in this romp through the holiday season by Michael Carleton, James FitzGerald and John K. Alvarez, with original music by Will Knapp.
* Feb. 12-22 -- As the Northern Lights hover over "Almost, Maine," the residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and often hilarious ways in John Cariani's new romantic comedy.
* May 7-22 -- Visit Grover's Corner and peak in on the lives of the Webb and Gibbs families in Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Our Town."
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