The 1999 direct-to-video production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT is a curious beast. Studio-bound but theatrically inspired, it also takes the opportunity to frame the musical itself inside its most natural home, that of a school assembly. There’s a touch of THE WIZARD OF OZ too, because the staff and faculty of whatever school this is, as they shepherd…

Much has been made of the bizarre nature of Tom Hooper’s movie adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s musical adaptation of T S Elliot’s book of cat poems and sure, there’s no denying that there are a bunch of weird choices in the movie, but none perhaps as weird as the decision to make a movie version of this in the first place.

When a white kitten called Victoria (Francesca Hayward) is abandoned on…