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Zachary J. Willis is playing a role made famous by the Bible and Donny Osmond.
The Dallas Theater Center Brierley Resident Acting Company member plays Joseph, a Biblical favorite son, in Dallas Theater Center’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, now playing at the Wyly Theatre in the Dallas Arts District through July 13.
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice teamed up in 1968 to reimagine the story from the Bible’s Book of Genesis into a 15-minute pop cantata for an end-of-term concert at Colet Court School in London. In the 1970s, Lloyd Webber and Rice developed the show about Joseph, his eleven envious brothers, and his coat of many colors into a family-friendly full-length musical. The show’s first Broadway production was in 1982, and it has been revived several times. Donny Osmond played Joseph in more than 2000 performances of the show in the United States and Canada between 1992 and 1997 and in a 1999 film of the musical.