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 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,