Been watching videos about musicals and, well, horrible horrible inspiration struck
In reference to the many checkmarks gifted to @thebibliosphere and the chaos they have wrought
(Hopefully the bug of them engulfing posts can be fixed)
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If Good Omens is making you want to read the Bible against your will/ better judgement might I recommend starting instead with the Biblical Musical Multiverse?
Jesus Christ Superstar holds up to this day as an absolute banger, and Godspell, Children of Eden, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat are all amazing.
Also almost forgot Prince of Egypt which (much to my anger) never made it here to the states as a musical production!!!
Signed, a former Catholic School Theatre Kid (we are a unique breed)
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While we're on the subject can we talk about the bisexual orgy scene in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999) and how watching it as a young child shaped me in ways I couldn't even comprehend yet?
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sometimes, when someone leaves a bad religious environment, there's an odd thing that happens when they interact with media from that religion. a tang of heartache, some bittersweet nostalgia, and a few other unidentifiable emotions.
all that to say, i think it would be fucking hilarious if Aziraphale's guilty pleasure musical was Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
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Hey I did the broadway tier list and I’m afraid I’m gonna get crucified about the placement of Hamilton…
ALSO THE BLOODY LOGO COVERS SPRING AWAKENING WHICH IS SO GOOFY
(Also Matilda was lower but I thought since I was in a production of it I couldn’t give it musical hell)
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I take singing lessons and I’m currently working on a song where I have to act really adoring/admiring of a character (it’s from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat) so I left myself this note:
The picture is a visual aid.
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Ok so its very talked about how, when the yj girls eat jackie, jackie is jesus and the girls are the disciples and coach ben is judas. And while this is brilliant, (brilliant also at expressing the homosexuality of the act), I think there might be a better biblical story to draw parrallels to.
OFFICIAL JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOUR DREAMCOAT AND YELLOWJACKETS HYPERFIXATION POST.
Yes so:
Joseph is one of the most famous prophets of the bible, primarily interpreting dreams. After having caught the eye of the Pharaoh, joseph interprets his dreams particularly one which had been disturbing him for days, a dream about cows. Seven fat cows had been grazing peacefully for a while, when seven skinny cows came up out of the river and ate them, but disturbingly stayed skinny. I've been thinking about this a lot recently in relation to yj, particularly as this dream was interpreted as prophesising a famine over Egypt. I'll explain my thoughts on this more clearly in another post
Second of all, nat and javi. The choice between killing nat and letting javi die is similar to the choice between killing joseph and selling him into slavery. Ofc the yj and the 12 brothers do this for very different reasons but comforting themselves by choosing a "more merciful" option under the guise of being given a sign is something I find striking between the two situations.
I might be delusional with this one but one of the most shocking things in joseph's story is that its not enough to sell him into slavery, but the brothers dip his special coat, a symbol of his optimism and individuality in blood to prove to his father that he's dead. When javi goes missing, nat does the same thing to prove to travis his brother is dead. Despite nat doing this to help travis cope with what she thinks is javi's death she, like the brothers feels guilty in this deception, which is why she is furious when lottie still says javi is alive. The act of lying about someone's death to a loved one kills even the memory or the hope that person might have left in their wake. This is especially interesting in the light that nat will later let javi die, and the brothers have already sold joseph into a life of misery.
Another parallel; to test if the brothers have changed since their betrayal, joseph doesn't reveal who he is to the brothers after twenty years apart and instead decides to challenge them. After inviting them to feast with him, he plants his golden cup in benjamin's sack. When it is time for the brothers to leave, he stops them, accusing them of theft. When benjamin is caught with the cup, the brothers vouch for him, and joseph decides they've changed and forgives them. And while this ending neatly swerves the catastrophe which would have occurred had the brothers not changed, it also shows some similarities between javi and benjamin which make this especially interesting. They are both the youngest, viewed as the baby of the group and more kind and individualistic than the others. Which makes this part of the biblical story the complete opposite of the corresponding episode of yj as where the girls sacrificed their youngest to eat, the brothers refuse to do this once they have eaten and are satisfied.
Joseph/the wilderness inviting 12 starving people to feast. At a price.
And of course being jacob/the wildernesses favourite and thus being given a special coat to signal status.
"i like ... your pilgrim hat"
ps: yj has been trying to tell me this with misty's musical obsession
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat is like the panto of musical theatre, in that a huge part of the appeal of it comes from how much fun the entire cast is clearly having, deliberately hamming it up and chewing the scenery as much as humanly possible the entire time.
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