This production of Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is the first film rendition of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's debut musical, which was originally presented in its shorter form at college auditoriums back in 1970.

Presented in the setting of being in front of schoolkids and the teachers' faculty members as an elementary school presentation- it opens with the scene of the schoolkids being whisked into the school auditorium by the teachers, while everyone is waiting for the quite late arrival of the narrator played by Maria Friedman, who hurrying along entered fumbling with the Bible that she accidentally dropped to her feet kicked to the laughter of the kids and disapproving looks of the school principal and teachers, which only seem to indicate to the viewer that the story is no holy relic according to its producers- that after an apologitical smile she went on to present the story's introduction on a musical number (thus as because it is a musical), bridging to the entrance of the charachter of Joseph - singing the theme "Any Dream Will Do".
As Friedman's (musical) narration went, the story is presented in a fictionalized vision as if accordingly to the imagination of the schoolkid audiences, portraying the staff of the school's office as playing the charachters within the story.
And so it goes in its storyline of Joseph's brothers being jealous of Jacob's favourtism about him, that out of envy they conspired to have him sold to the slave-traders who are passing by that got Joseph sold down to Egypt. Whilst in Egypt, it turned out that Joseph became well favoured by the Pharoah himself, but was imprisoned when accused of sexually assaulting the Pharoah's wife whom Joseph always refused. Rotting in prison, Joseph took the knack to use his talents of interpreting dreams to the lease of giving him a second chance, by interpreting the dreams of the Pharoah's two prominent servants who are sent along with him in the dungeon, who in turn recommended Joseph to the new Pharoah (this time guised as The King (ie. Elvis-impersonator like)), who's dream Joseph interpreted, that landed Joseph again into a prominent possition. I'll leave the rest for you to watch and see what happened on the rest of the story, and what happened to Joseph's brothers and Jacob.

Tis one of those that you could say so as good for the entire family to watch, if not only for the risque skin-tight costumes, and scenes of sexual innuendos that seem to have lingered more than necessary. In any case, I find the songs catchy, along with its humour, and in some of its momments it may even drive you touched into to tears...mainly by the ending kind of. snff-snff