(MUSICAL REVIVAL; PAPER MILL PLAYHOUSE; 1,200 SEALS; $55 TOP) MILLBURN, N.J. A Paper Mill Playhouse presentation, in association with Troika Entertainment and Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, of a musical in two acts with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice....

(ADELPHI THEATER; 1,200 SEATS; 49.50 [pounds sterling] ($102) TOP) LONDON A Really Useful Group, Bill Kenwright, Andrew Lloyd Webber presentation of a musical in two acts with music by Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice. Directed by Steven Pimlott. Musical direction, Daniel Bowling....

Theater director Steven Pimlott, whose credits ranged from Shakespeare to "Bombay Dreams," has died at the age of 52, his agent said Thursday. Pimlott, who had been suffering from lung cancer, died Wednesday at his home near Colchester, east of London, said the agent, Harriet...

She's that very pretty girl-next-door brunette that all the guys wanted to date. We've seen 22-year-old Mary Elizabeth Winstead in horrorfests Final Destination 3, Black Christmas and The Ring Two and the high school superhero film Sky High but, earlier in her career, she was...

I thought that "Superstar," and now "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat," were quite surely more decadent than Alice Cooper. It's quite okay, and very lovable to have jolly portrayals of God—to all intents and purposes styled upon Santa Claus. It's a best-seller to have rock 'n' roll angels, tidy lyrics, neon tablets, and satire based upon The Bible.

["Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"] continues to impress with its charm, wit and inventive staging. It not only popularizes a portion of the Old Testament, but on another level operates as show business parody, kidding such personalities as Gene Autry and Elvis Presley. It's no knockout, but certainly a pleasing and buoyant entertainment…. But because of its short length, "Joseph" appears doomed to be the victim of debilitating grafts. In this instance,...

All in all, [Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat] covers a good nine chapters of the Book of Genesis and proffers a highly moving—much of which, I must admit, is due to the groovy score the operetta sports—testimony of one man's unswerving fidelity to God…. Although at times the music does seem a bit irreverent to what's being recounted, the LP's "now sound" is often quite effective….