Hommocks Auditorium Stages its First Musical:
Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

by Judy Silberstein; photographs by Tom Jordan

(February 10, 2004) After years of schlepping between the middle school and the stage at Murray Avenue Elementary School, the Hommocks musical came home. On February 5, 6 and 7 (despite the snow and ice), there were 100 students onstage and 25 backstage from grades 6, 7 and 8 presenting Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in the new auditorium. There were some kinks to work out: How does the curtain work? How do we balance the state-of-the-art sound system? But by opening-night, cast, crew and pit orchestra (with six middle and high school student musicians) were ready to play to full houses and receive their ovations.

Step 1. Let those voices ring - loud and clear, musical director Omar Rodriguez' body language exhorted the cast of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat. Step 2. Keep your places, mind your paces, Director and Choreographer Cal Chiang appeared to be thinking. Step 3. Hair swept up, makeup straight, the cast prepared. Step 4. Wide arms on those ribbons, indicated Producer Katy Heyde.

Tom Jordan is the Band Director at the Hommocks Middle School.

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