Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat

IT'S BEEN more than half a century since the mega musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat was first performed back in the 1970s.

- DANIELLE ROPER

Based on the character of Joseph from the Bible's Book of Genesis, the multi award-winning show has toured in over 80 countries but how will this latest version land with the Manchester Opera House audience?

Starring X-Factor winner Joe McElderry as Pharaoh and Adam Felipe as Joseph, we journey to Egypt as Joseph, his father’s favourite son and fiercely envied by his 11 brothers, is sold into slavery by those same siblings, to an Egyptian pharaoh.

Narrator Christina Bianco is chameleon like in her telling of the story, deftly switching between male and female voices and from one accent to another, neither her energy nor her impressive singing voice waning throughout.