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Any Dream Will Do A favorite son and eleven jealous siblings make the foundation for the play Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat. A very popular musical by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, this story is a timeless piece of theatre that is reinvented frequently. Originally a twenty minute performance, the show is now ninety minutes long, including several terrific show tunes that tell the story of the young man and his coveted coat of many colors. The coat, given to him by his father enrages his other sons into acts of betrayal, sending Joseph on a journey of a lifetime. The play demonstrates the concept that dreams can, and do come true, even when they seem too distant or even impossible. The plot of the play was chronological, and told the story of Joseph that so many are familiar with from the Bible. It showed Joseph’s journey from his father’s protection, to his brother’s betrayal, to slavery in Egypt. The story is told from a third person point of view, where everyone’s thoughts are available to the audience, and the personalities and angles on all of the characters are evident. There are many antagonists in the show, as all eleven of Joseph’s siblings betray him into the hands of slave masters. One of