Now the Theater Center Extends "Technicolor Dreamcoat"

We were just talking the other day about how local theater companies seem to have picked up on what the Dallas Summer Musicals has known for half-a-century: Programming musical comedies in the summer makes sense, when all those kids are at home and their parents are desperate to distract them (coming up: Smokey Joe’s Cafe at WaterTower Theatre.) With Avenue Q, Theatre Three has shown this seems to work even with a show too adult for most kiddies.

And now the Dallas Theater Center shows that last summer’s success with The Wiz wasn’t a fluke: It’s current, splashy production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat just got extended a week, through Aug. 12 — the first extension of a show since the DTC moved into the Wyly Theatre.

The full release:

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor^® Dreamcoat Extended through August 12

Dallas Theater Center is thrilled to announce that the run of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor^® Dreamcoat has been extended through Sunday, August 12. This is the first extension of a DTC production in the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre since the building opened in October 2009. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor^® Dreamcoat was originally scheduled to close on Sunday, August 5. Complete details, including how to purchase tickets, are included below.

AN EVENT OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS.

For two generations, this joyful, family-friendly musical has been giving audiences a new appreciation of the Old Testament story of Joseph, the boy dreamer. Sold into slavery by his brothers, he became the ruler of Egypt. In DTC’s tuneful telling of this ancient story, practically every line is sung by the actors and a kids’ chorus, in styles from rock to western to a1920s Charleston.

WHO: Dallas Theater Center

WHAT: EXTENDED

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor^® Dreamcoat

Lyrics by Tim Rice Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Directed and Choreographed by Joel Ferrell
Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre
Potter Rose Performance Hall

WHEN: Extension Week:

Tuesday, August 7 through Sunday, August 12

Remaining Performances:

Now through August 12

Tickets are available online at DallasTheaterCenter.org or by phone at (214) 880-0202 for as little as $15 each.

WHERE: AT&T Performing Arts Center

Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre

2400 Flora Street