Joseph Thread - the story continues!

[Notquitegrownup]

Oops! Just posted on the old thread and it passed 1000 messages and died. Thought I had better start a new one quick!

Looking a little heavy there love...

humph...
Thanks RTK

Thinking about it though, must be a tricky time for his girlfriend...

{envy]
Have you seen his girlfriend, Berrie? She's gorgeous (reducing our chances from one in a million to one in a trillion )

was at the pics. That RTK, Lee's looking lovelier than ever.

What makes you think I'm not as gorgeous as her?

He does look good, but he's sexier when looking mean. He is going to be swoonlicious in the Benjamin scene!! Joseph is a bit camp at most other times

I'm still a bit in the dark when it comes to the actual Joseph story, apart from the general gist of it. What's it actually about
btw, I'm sure you are gorgeous.

The ALW version or the Bible version?

ALW version.

Right - Jacob has lots of sons but Joseph's his favourite so he buys him a fancy coat to show him how wonderful he is. All the other brothers v jealous of this and the fact that Joe swans around telling them how successful he's going to be compared to them (he has visionary dreams). So they plan to waylay him and kill him; they attack him but decide to sell him to some handily passing Egyptians instead. They smear the coat with the blood of a goat, go home and tell Jacob Joe is dead. Meanwhile, Joe goes to work for an Egyptian called Potiphar but gets hit on by Mrs P. He resists her but Mr P isn't happy and throws our Joe into prison. He moulders for a while but then interprets some dreams correctly and comes to Pharoah's attention. Pharoah needs some help with his dreams, which Joe provides and becomes Pharoah's right hand man. Famine hits the country and the brothers are starving but Egypt has plenty due to Joe's great long term planning. The brothers come to beg for aid and don't recognise Joe; he frames them for robbery to teach them a lesson but then forgives them all, Jacob pitches up and there's a happy reunion...
Phew!

There's lots of singing and no spoken dialogue, btw. A narrator sings the storyline with all the characters doing their bits. It's just fab. All the songs are in different styles - Pharoah does an Elvis number, the brothers sing some cowboy blues...

An Elvis-style number, not an actual Elvis song

Thanks slayerette, now it all makes sense.
It sounds great and now I really can't wait to see it.

Lyra now I'm really jealous if you haven't seen it before. I'd LOVE to see it for the first time again. You're in for such a treat!

Great summary Slayerette

More of those pics

Thank you Berrie! Directed it as a school production some years ago and can still sing lots of the songs (except the coat colours ) - 'Reuben was the eldest of the children of Israel, with Simeon and Levi the next in line, Napthali and Isachaar and Asher and Dan, Zebulum and Gad bring the total to nine...Benjamin and Judah which leaves only one...Joseph, Jacob's favourite son...'

{Wanders off singing happily to self, DS and DH on Crazy Lady alert}

Purely because I have an odd fascination with white cotton garments , at which point, and for how long is the loincloth featured?

Oh he's rarely out of the blimmin' thing!
I believe the first sighting is when he's sold to be a slave. He wears one as Potiphar's servant in Potiphar's colours and then again as Pharoah's right hand man in his colours...mmmm or was it tight gold trousers for Pharoah? Anyway, I've only ever seen the Bill Kenwright production so what do I know. Yeah, I think I put him in a Pharoah colour loincloth in my production. It was made from laminated paper and velcro and it kept falling off poor lad! I couldn't find any gold trousers for and 11 year old boy!

Oooooohhhhhh!!!! I'd forgotten about the loincloth!!! I keep imagining him in his multicoloured coat.
Really, really, really can't wait to see it now!

forgotten about the loincloth ?

forgotten about the loincloth ???????

Pray tell how you could have forgotten about the loincloth?

I only saw the coat!! I'm sorry, I don't deserve my tickets,

Am I glad Keith didn't win now!!! Keith in a loincloth??!!

Eeeeewwwwww.

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