Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Joseph. The 2016 UK touring production starred Joe McElderry as Joseph and Lucy Kay as the Narrator. The tour began in January 2016 and is scheduled to run through June 2017. Lloyd Webber used a variety of musical styles, including parodies of French ballads ("Those Canaan Days"), Elvis-inspired rock and roll ("Song of the King"), western music ("One More Angel In Heaven"), 1920s Charleston ("Potiphar"), Calypso ("Benjamin Calypso"), jazz ("Joseph's Dreams"), and 1950s rock ("Go, Go, Go Joseph"). "Prologue" was first included in the 1982 Broadway production; the use of "Any Dream Will Do" at the start of the show
Harvey Lisberg was rejected by Mickie Most as a Herman's Hermits single, but Lisberg nevertheless signed the duo to a development deal when he heard their sketches for a musical called "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat". At the time there were no takers for the sketches, but the show, which morphed into a pop cantata written for schools and then became a concept album before being staged on the West End and later as a Broadway production, has since exceeded all original expectations. As Sir Tim Rice put it: Lisberg managed Wayne Fontana after he left the Mindbenders, allowing guitarist Eric