Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Plays Beck Center 12/2-31

Back by popular demand! Beck Center for the Arts presents an encore production of the smash hit musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat®, December 2 through 31, 2011 on the Mackey Main Stage. Start a new holiday tradition and bring the entire family to enjoy live theater at the Beck Center. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Special Saturday matinees will be held on December 10 and 17. Additional weeknight performances are scheduled on Wednesday, December 28; Thursdays, December 22 and 29; and a special New Year’s Eve performance at 7:30 p.m. There are no performances on December 24 or 25.

Beck Center Artistic Director Scott Spence co-directs this encore production with Choreographer Martín Céspedes. “We are thrilled to bring back this box office record breaker from last season,” said Spence. “Audiences raved over the amazing talent on Beck's stage and reveled in the outstanding production values.”

Many of the original cast members also return this year including Equity actors Josh Rhett Noble as Pharaoh and Tricia Tanguy as the Narrator, a role she performed with the national touring production of Joseph. New this season in the title role of Joseph is Matthew Ryan Thompson who audiences have seen in Beck Center’s recent productions of Hairspray and Altar Boyz. The production also features a youth chorus of 16 talented actors, many of whom have trained through Beck Center’s Dance and Theater Education programs.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor® Dreamcoat is a humorous retelling of the biblical story of Joseph of Canaan. Center stage will be awash with a rainbow of colors in this rollicking musical, complete with an amazing light show, buoyant choreography, splashy costumes, and musical stylings that appeal to all tastes—from Marleyesque reggae to spur-slapping country western to an Elvis-channeling pharaoh. Preschoolers to their great-grandparents will delight in this entertaining extravaganza. “Joseph is that rare entertainment that appeals to audiences of all ages,” added Spence.

Tickets are $28 for adults, $25 for seniors (65 and older), $17 for students (with valid ID), and $10 for children (12 and under). An additional $3 service fee per ticket is applied at the time of purchase. Preview Night on Thursday, December 1 is $10 with general admission seating. Group discounts are available for parties of 13 or more. Purchase tickets online at beckcenter.org or call Customer Service at 216.521.2540, ext. 10. Beck Center is located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood, just ten minutes west of downtown Cleveland. Free onsite parking is available.

Beck Center’s production of Joseph is presented through an exclusive arrangement with R&H Theatricals and The Really Useful Group Ltd. and is sponsored by Parker Hannifin, First Federal Lakewood, Cox Communications, Ohio Arts Council, and Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.

Beck Center for the Arts (beckcenter.org) is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that offers professional Theater Productions, arts education programming in dance, music, theater, visual arts, early childhood, and creative arts therapies for special needs students, and gallery exhibits featuring regional artists.

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