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
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat narration spoken by children was broadcast on BBC radio, produced by Richard Wilcox. In 1974, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" was performed at the Playhouse in the Park in Philadelphia. The musical ran at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York in 1976 and in 1977 as "holiday fare". In the 1976 production, which opened on 30 December, direction was by John Dunlop, with a cast that featured Cleavon Little as the Narrator and David-James Carroll as Joseph. In the 1977 production, running in December through 1 January 1978, staging was by Graciela Daniele, with Carroll as Joseph,