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
Steven Pimlott 1988, he directed a production of the "York Mystery Plays" which was staged in the city's Museum Gardens, against the backdrop of the ruined St Mary's Abbey, and which featured the Indian actor Victor Banerjee as Jesus. Also in 1988, he directed the British première of Botho Strauss's "Der Park". Pimlott developed a wide range of theatrical work, which included avant garde, Shakespeare and popular musicals, such as the revival of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" with Jason Donovan and then Phillip Schofield at the Palladium in 1991 and on Broadway in 1993, "Doctor Dolittle" at the Hammersmith Apollo