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Don't Miss Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

I was skeptical — the movie left me... underwhelmed. But after the opening night I was so happily amazed at this production.

Let's just say that i was skeptical. I'd seen the Donnie Osmond movie version "Joseph" as self assigned homework when my daughter was cast in the show at the  Brookfield Playhouse — or more formally named The Brookfield Theatre for the Arts. Ordered it on Netflix where it sat in my kitchen for a few weeks until I forced my daughter to watch it with me. The movie left me... underwhelmed. I'd never seen the Broadway show, and knew only that it was a musical parody version of the biblical story of Jacob and his 12 sons (hence the 12 Tribes of Israel). That's all I knew.

So here's my disclaimer — I'm no theatre critic, and yes, my kid is in the show, but after the opening night production I was so happily amazed at this production, this gem of a show with its amazing cast, set design, musical and comic ability and direction, that I left the theatre wondering why I rarely take advantage of this great little gift Brookfield has given us.

The last act in the show had the entire audience singing, clapping (even my 83-year-old dad when he wasn't in the bathroom), and with such a sense of happiness and gratitude that watching people leave the theatre there was not one person without a smile on their face. Funny, professional, highly entertaining and a feast for the senses, I didn't want it to end.

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Congratulations to the entire impressive cast, director Eric Tonner and production team. I haven't had such an entertaining night out in Brookfield since my cat got stuck on the roof in '01 and 3 handsome firefighters came to take her down.

Just kidding, that never happened. I climbed up and took her down after much cajoling.

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