The coat of many colors comes to downtown Abbeville this weekend.
The Abbey Players, the parish’s community theater since 1976, open Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat on Friday, Nov. 13, at their theater at 200 S. State St. The show runs two weekends and closes Sunday, Nov. 22, according to the troupe’s ticket listing.
Showtimes
- Friday, Nov. 13: 7 p.m.
- Saturday, Nov. 14: 7 p.m.
- Sunday, Nov. 15: 2 p.m. matinee
- Friday, Nov. 20: 7 p.m.
- Saturday, Nov. 21: 7 p.m.
- Sunday, Nov. 22: 2 p.m. matinee
Tickets are sold online through the Abbey Players website, which links to the troupe’s ticketing page.
The show
Joseph is the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical built on the Bible story of Joseph, Jacob’s favorite son, and the coat that made his eleven brothers jealous. The whole story is sung, with a Narrator guiding the audience as Joseph is sold by his brothers, lands in an Egyptian prison, reads dreams for a Pharaoh styled after Elvis, and finally saves Egypt from famine and reunites with his family.
The theater bills it as a family musical.
About the Abbey Players
The troupe calls itself “South Louisiana Community Theater Since 1976,” and says its mission is to give local performers a welcoming place to create and to entertain Abbeville and the rest of Acadiana. Local actors, singers and volunteers make up its casts and crews, and the group posts auditions, volunteer sign-ups and its full season on its website.
The Times has asked the Abbey Players for the director’s name, the lead cast and ticket prices, and will add them here when they reply.
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