Theatre in review: Joseph, Oleanna and Hymn

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is ‘firing on all cylinders’, says The Guardian

Clockwise from left: Joseph, Oleanna and Hymn
Clockwise from left: Joseph, Oleanna and Hymn

The pandemic has cost Andrew Lloyd Webber millions, and the “pingdemic” recently delayed the much-anticipated opening of his new musical Cinderella until 18 August – but a revival of his and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat has reopened at the Palladium – and it is “firing on all cylinders”, said Arifa Akbar in The Guardian.

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