# Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 28, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joseph-and-the-amazing-technicolor-dreamcoat/594408 "2011-08-28T19:32:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joseph-and-the-amazing-technicolor-dreamcoat/594408/11 "2011-08-29T17:00:13Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > I > My favorite soundtrack recording is the [1982 Broadway Cast Recording](http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1135892) with Laurie Beechman. She reprised the role in the 1990 production I saw in Philadelphia. Nitpick, cause it’s one thing I go apeshit over: Movies have soundtracks. Musicals have cast recordings. The 1982 is considered one of the best. The late Laurie Beechman won a Tony for the role. > [@](#): > > P.S. Re Pharaoh being modeled on Elivs- not sure if you were aware that that is the traditional approach to that character in stage productions. > “This dream has got me _All Shook Up_ > _Treat Me Nice_ and tell me what it means” Pharoh has been an Elvis impersonator from the first recording, where the role was sung by Tim Rice, mostly because the record company didn’t want to pay someone else to do it. Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote this show when he was 19! Amateur rights have been released, meaning schools et.al don’t have to pay royalties when they do it. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joseph-and-the-amazing-technicolor-dreamcoat/594408)._