History Theatre / JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat

** Potiphar is introduced with the 1920s Charleston-style song "Potiphar".

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Joseph can predict the future by interpreting dreams.

* RecurringRiff: "Poor, poor [whoever], whatcha gonna do?" Also, the Prologue becomes the prologue-of-sorts to the second part (Pharaoh Story). Also, "Joseph's Coat" becomes "Pharaoh's Dreams Explained" in the second act.

* BriefAccentImitation: In the film, Joseph imitates the Butler's British accent when he says "you'll {{bu|ffySpeak}}ttle as you did before."

* AllKnowingAllSingingNarrator: When the show started out, it used to be interchangeably male or female, but later changed to female to make up for the disproportionate number of leading male characters in the show.

As a side note, this was the musical by which Donny Osmond, playing the titular Joseph, surpassed George Rose to take the World Record for Most Appearances as a Single Character in a Stage Production. Rose previously held the record for playing Major General Stanley in ''Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance'' over 5200 times on stage; Osmond surpassed this mark, and eventually would go on to play Joseph in over 7000 presentations of the show.

* ColourblindCasting: Gerry [=McIntyre=] plays Judah in the movie. Joseph's only black sibling.

* CrocodileTears: The brothers shed them during "One More Angel".

* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Joseph and his brothers tend sheep in all the seven colours of the rainbow.

* DemBones: When Israel is hit by the famine, their sheep are walking skeletons.

* ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction: In the movie when the kids run onstage, their uniforms I stantly changed to more colorful clothes.

* WalkingShirtlessScene: Joseph, who wears nothing but a loin cloth throughout most of the musical.

** In Benjamin's case it even gets a bit weirder: The musical mentions that at least part of Jacob's favoritism was due to Joseph being the son of Rachel, his favorite wife. Given that Benjamin was Joseph's full brother, and also the son of Rachel, it makes far less sense for the favoritism to affect him so blatantly (...although it was Benjamin's birth that killed Rachel...).

* DarkestHour: Joseph's time in prison, expressed through the deeply moving "Close Every Door."

* ActingForTwo: InUniverse. In the film version, because of the FramingDevice of the show being done as an actual school play, all the main roles also play teachers or other faculty at the fictional school.

* BriefAccentImitation: In the film, Joseph imitates the Butler's British accent when he says "you'll [[BuffySpeak buttle]] as you did before."

* LoinCloth: Part of Joseph's standard slave attire in Egypt, and also all he wears after [[ShamefulStrip Potifar's wife forces him out of the rest of his clothes.]]

* YouCantFightFate: The brothers try to make it so that Joseph's dreams won't come true... [[SelfFulfillingProphecy And oh, how they fail]].

* GenderNeutralNarrator: As written, the Narrator has no specific gender, but is now always played by a woman to make up for the complete lack of female characters (other than Potiphar's Wife).

** Joseph's sister Dinah — Jacob's only daughter. Of course, it's possible to interpret the narrator (usually the only major female role aside from Potiphar's wife) as Dinah, given that she is not involved in the plot to sell Joseph into slavery but, as an InteractiveNarrator, seems to know Joseph and his family.
** In a way, Rachel, Leah, Bilhah and Zilpah. The song 'Joseph's Coat' heavily implies that Rachel is dead ('Joseph's mother, she was quite my favourite wife / Never really loved another all my life'), though anyone who has read the Book of Genesis can tell you that this is inaccurate. Meanwhile, Leah, another of Jacob's wives and the mother of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulon and Dinah isn't even mentioned. Neither is Naphtali and Dan's mother Bilhah, nor Zilpah, the mother of Asher and Gad.
** Serah (also spelled Sera or Serach). She was either Jacob's granddaughter or step-granddaughter, and was the one to inform him that Joseph was alive in Egypt. The brothers were worried that the shock would kill him, so they had Serah compose a little song to give him the message, hoping that she could let him know gently. It worked.
*** Of course, another possible interpretation of the narrator (when played by a woman) is that she is Serah. After all, she's telling the audience (and sometimes the characters) everything via song.

** Serah (also spelled Sera or Serach). She was either Jacob's granddaughter or step-granddaughter, and was the one to inform him that Joseph was alive in Egypt. The brothers were worried that the shock would kill him, so they had Serah compose a little song to give him the message, hoping to ease him into the idea gently.