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Schools: Dreamy Joseph Opens at the Middle School
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| Alyssa Marino as the head maid |
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| Dreamy Dancers |
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| Joseph and Jacob return home |
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| Lena Beckenstein as the butler |
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| Nick Logerfo as Joseph |
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| One More Angel in Heaven |
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| The brothers and wives |
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| The guards |
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| The narrators tell the story |
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| The Pharoah rocks |
March 23, 2007
If you like a wide variety of music styles, chances are you will enjoy the musical “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” now playing at the Cornwall Central Middle School.
The play, with Nick Logerfo in the lead role of Joseph, features a cast of nearly 100 middle school students who sing and dance and kick up a really good time. Each segment of the cast dressed in a different color and director Marietta Veglia’s aim was to create a coat of many colors when everyone took to the stage. Shelagh Ford, a parent, oversaw the coordination of all of the costumes.
The show’s two narrators, Lindsay Portelli and Shona Ford, lead the audience through the story of Joseph, one of 12 sons of Jacob (played by Emerson Benn) and his favorite. Jacob gives Joseph a “Dreamcoat,” making his brothers jealous and leading them to sell him as a slave to an Egyptian captain, Potiphar, played by Dante Giannetta.
In slavery, Joseph flirts with Potiphar’s wife and is thrown in jail, where he meets the Pharoah’s butler and cook and reveals his amazing power of dream interpretation. The Pharoah, played by David Ransbottom in a powerful takeoff on Elvis, hears of Joseph’s power and releases him from jail.
Meanwhile, the brothers are suffering and come to Egypt to ask forgiveness from their brother that they had cast aside.
Throughout the performance dancers and singers move gracefully across the stage to the music played by the pit band led by Valerie Ransbottom. Of particular note is the guitar work of Jonathan Beckenstein, a parent, and Jack Storer on trumper, who leads a triumphant Joseph to be reunited with his family at the end.
Friday night’s performance will feature the cast’s understudies in the leading roles and on Saturday night the original lead cast returns for the final performance.
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