Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and penitence, Joseph reveals himself ("Joseph All the Time") and sends for his father. The two are reunited ("Jacob in Egypt") for a happy conclusion and Joseph dons his coloured coat once more ("Any Dream Will Do (Reprise)/Give Me My Coloured Coat"). In some productions, the finale is followed by a rock/disco medley of most of the musical's major numbers ("Joseph Megamix"). The 17-year-old budding musical-theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber was contacted by the 20-year-old aspiring pop-song writer Tim Rice in 1965, and they created their first musical, "The Likes of Us". They produced a demo tape of that work
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat came with a 100-guinea advance from Novello. This resulted in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", a retelling of the biblical story of Joseph, in which Lloyd Webber and Rice humorously pastiched a number of pop-music styles. The piece was first presented as a 15-minute pop cantata at Colet Court School in London on 1 March 1968. Lloyd Webber's composer father William arranged for a second performance at his church, Westminster Central Hall, with a revised and expanded 20-minute format; the boys of Colet Court and members of the band Mixed Bag sang at this performance in May 1968. One