1968 in theatre

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Chapters: 1968 musicals, 1968 plays, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Real Inspector Hound, Promises, Promises, Darling of the Day, George M!, 22nd Tony Awards, Zorba, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, The Boys in the Band, Your Own Thing, Maggie Flynn, Plaza Suite, Golden Rainbow, You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running, The Goodbye People, The Seven Descents of Myrtle, Sweet Eros, Forty Years On, Fortitude, Here's Where I Belong, Indians, Forty Carats, The Price, The Advertisement, Jimmy Shine, The Indian Wants the Bronx, The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, Enter a Free Man, Narrow Road to the Deep North, Early Morning, Grrr, Poltettu oranssi. Excerpt: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly. Their first musical, The Likes of Us, written in 1965, was not performed until 2005. Joseph was first presented as a 15-minute pop cantata at Colet Court School in London in 1968 and was recorded as a concept album in 1969. After the success of the next Lloyd Webber and Rice piece, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph received stage productions beginning in 1970 and expanded recordings in 1971 and 1972. While still undergoing various transformations and expansions, the musical was produced in the West End in 1973, and in its full format was recorded in 1974 and opened on Broadway in 1982. Several major revivals and a 1999 straight-to-video film, starring Donny Osmond, followed. The show has very little spoken dialogue; it is almost completely sung-through. Its family-friendly storyline, universal themes and catchy music have resulted in numerous productions of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; according to the Really Useful Group, by 2008 more than 20,000 schools and amateur theatre groups had successfully put on productions. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was first created for and performed at Colet Court, the preparatory school for St Paul's School in London. Alan Doggett, head of Colet Court's music department, commissioned the 15-minute piece from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice as a "pop cantata" for the school choir to sing at their Easter concert. Doggett conducted the performance, which included an orchestra, a rock group called the Mixed Bag, and singers from the school. This first performance was given in March 1968. Lloyd Webber's composer father, William, felt the show had the seeds of greatness. He encouraged and arranged for a second performance - at hi