IT'S irredeemably cheesy and more camp than a row of tents, with a standard-issue story and no tempestuous, crashing love affair to swoon over. So why does one leave Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat floating on a rainbow-hued cloud and hunting around for the nearest dance floor?Its allure is unfathomable, because by any objective analysis it’s not a terribly good musical, especially by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice standards. It’s so fluffy and insubstantial, it almost floats away.But because Joseph was one of their very first works — it was conceived in the late 1960s, predating the more popular Jesus Christ Superstar — the pair that would go on to become a formidable force in global musical theatre perhaps didn’t yet feel the pressure to create a work of high art. They could just let loose and have fun — with a Bible story, nogal.And fun is what the audience has in spades throughout this curious cock-eyed concoction of a musical, which merrily skips between music g...
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