Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat gay
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Way, way back many centuries ago, not long after The Bible began
It's part of the Book of Genesis BUT WITH SINGING.
Really, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (abbreviated as JosephDreamcoat, Dreamcoat, J&tATD, etc. etc.) is simply that: Andrew Lloyd Webber's Breakthrough Hit, his first musical to be performed, with lyrics by his frequent collaborator Tim Rice, and based on the Biblical story of Joseph and his coat of many colors. It first performed in the form of a choir arrangement in , before making it to the stage in
As a side note, this was the musical by which Donny Osmond, playing the titular Joseph, surpassed George Rose to take the World Record for Most Appearances as a Single Character in a Stage Production. Rose previously held the record for playing Major General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance over times on stage; Osmond surpassed this tag, and eventually would move on to play Joseph in over presentations of the show, including a filmed version. Osmand finally hung up the coat and decided he was too old to participate Joseph aft
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Joseph and the Transgender Dreamcoat?
LGBTQ activists within the Church have long produced stories deliberately twisting the sexual orientation of biblical characters to fit their revisionist campaign. I thought I’d heard them all: David and Jonathan, Daniel and the palace master, and even Ruth and Naomi. But I hadn’t yet heard of a transgender character in the Bible. Have you?
So I was struck by a blog post published by the Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN), a major pro-LGBTQ coalition active in the United Methodist Church. A “genderqueer” RMN blogger presents an altered story of Joseph and the coat of many colors (as pictured above). In this new-fangled interpretation, Joseph’s coat is not a colorful robe, but a “princess dress,” possibly making him transgender. The blogger, Mac Buff, contends:
[W]e no longer comprehend the precise meaning of the word usually translated “coat of many colors,” but the only other time it’s used is to describe the clothing of a king’s virginal daughter. A princess dress.
Which opens the possibility that Joseph could have been, instead of an arrog
I'm not a big fan of musicals, but Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat () is one of my favorites, for three reasons
Reason #1: The utter absence of a hetero-romantic plot, almost unheard-of in musical theater.
It's a Mod version of the picaresque adventures of Joseph (from the Bible), favorite of his father, given a Coat of Many Colors.
His brothers, jealous, set out to kill him, but have a change of heart and sell him to slave traders instead. He ends up in Egypt -- depicted as a glittery Las Vegas -- as a slave to sleazy merchant Potiphar.
Potiphar's wife tries unsuccessfully to seduce him -- "I don't believe in free love," he yells in s slang. Or maybe he doesn't particularly care for girls.
Falsely accused of attempted rape, Joseph is thrown in prison, where he begins interpreting other prisoners' weird dreams, thus drawing the attention of the Pharaoh (an Elvis-like pop star). Pharaoh makes Joseph his right-hand male. The brothers arrive, and Joseph toys with them a bit before reconciling.
Reason #2: &nbs