<P> In the summer of 1967 Alan Doggett , a family friend of the Lloyd Webbers who had assisted on The Likes of Us and who was the music teacher at the Colet Court school in London , commissioned Lloyd Webber and Rice to write a piece for the school 's choir . Doggett requested a `` pop cantata '' along the lines of Herbert Chappell 's The Daniel Jazz ( 1963 ) and Michael Hurd 's Jonah - Man Jazz ( 1966 ) , both of which had been published by Novello and were based on the Old Testament . The request for the new piece came with a 100 - guinea advance from Novello . This resulted in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , a retelling of the biblical story of Joseph , in which Lloyd Webber and Rice humorously pastiched a number of pop - music styles . </P>
<P> In the summer of 1967 Alan Doggett , a family friend of the Lloyd Webbers who had assisted on The Likes of Us and who was the music teacher at the Colet Court school in London , commissioned Lloyd Webber and Rice to write a piece for the school 's choir . Doggett requested a `` pop cantata '' along the lines of Herbert Chappell 's The Daniel Jazz ( 1963 ) and Michael Hurd 's Jonah - Man Jazz ( 1966 ) , both of which had been published by Novello and were based on the Old Testament . The request for the new piece came with a 100 - guinea advance from Novello . This resulted in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , a retelling of the biblical story of Joseph , in which Lloyd Webber and Rice humorously pastiched a number of pop - music styles . </P>
when was joseph and the technicolor dreamcoat written
when was joseph and the technicolor dreamcoat written
1967
1967