In Living Color: “Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,”
at the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre through August 16 Print
Theatre - Reviews Written by Mike Schulz    Monday, 10 August
2009 06:00  Joshua Sohn in Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor
DreamcoatIf you can't pull off grandeur in a show that's pretty
much known for grandeur, you're much better off shooting for
ingenuity and invention. So, for those curious how the modestly
scaled Clinton Area Showboat Theatre was going to house the
extravagantly scaled Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,
the happy answer is: with considerable wit and smarts, thank
you.  Despite boasting one of the less intimidating running
lengths in the musical-theatre canon - including intermission,
Friday night's Joseph ran a tidy 100 minutes - composer Andrew
Lloyd Webber's and lyricist Tim Rice's Biblical re-telling is
actually quite massive in scope, as most audiences are no doubt
aware. (Certainly, the Showboat is presuming a degree of
familiarity with the piece; despit