Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Meaning

Literal Meaning of the Play’s Title Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a direct reference to the coat of many colors that Jacob gives Joseph at the start of the musical. It was the coat that gave Joseph the idea that he was destined for greater things. His brothers were jealous of the coat and they ripped it up after they sold him into slavery. The title also gave the coat extra meaning by mentioning Joseph’s dreams and the dreams of others that he would interpret. It was Joseph’s interpretations of the Butler’s dreams that led the Butler to recommend Joseph to the Pharaoh. It was then the ability of Joseph to interpret the dreams of Pharaoh that earned him his freedom and his position of power.

Symbolic Meaning of the Play’s Title Joseph is the moral center of the play. He is victimized more than once in the play but through all the hard times he is able to maintain his faith and his ability to dream of better things. He knew how to work for those dreams and achieve higher

The story of Jacob and his sons is found in Genesis in the Bible. The story is about a dreamer from Canaan who had been treated as special being sold into slavery by his brothers. Joseph is sent to Egypt and works his way up from the bottom in the house of Potiphar only to be thrown back down in the pits. He catches a lucky break when his ability to find meaning in dreams is helpful to the Pharaoh. The Pharaoh sets Joseph free and he becomes the number two person in Egypt, in charge of helping Egypt make it through a major famine that was impacting the entire region. His brothers, still back in Canaan, have not faired well through the drought and go to Egypt to get food. It had been twenty years since they had seen their brother and they do not recognize him. He tests them to see if they had become better men, which they had, and the entire family, including their father, is reunited in