Journalist, Author & Syndicated Columnist
Brian Lane Green is sitting at a coffee shop not far from his Gold Coast hotel. He is oblivious to the second looks he attracts from other patrons. He’s too busy digging into his bowl of soup. “When you run around on stage every day wearing a loincloth, you are very conscious of what you eat,” says Green with a laugh. “I have a tendency to be round. Luckily, my muscles have memory, so they pop out during the shows.”
Previous productions of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” didn’t seem as fun or entertaining as the current incarnation, now in an open run at the Royal George Theatre. Granted, this staging of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is much scaled down from the 1993 production starring Donny Osmond at the Chicago Theatre. But this version–the first non-touring commercial production to be granted rights for use of updated material–has a good time interpreting Lloyd Webber’s kitsch.
Collaborating with brothers is nothing new to Patrick Cassidy, whose real-life siblings are former teen idols David and Shaun. But how about the six nephews of Donny Osmond, the singer whom many folks still associate with the starring role in “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”?