However, God took their evil and made it for good for many.Īt 17 Joseph thought it was all about him. Joseph now had the power and opportunity to crush them. Later Jacob and his 11 sons went to Egypt for food which caused them to bow down to Joseph. Joseph saved Egypt by putting food back and storing it. He recommended to the King that they store and save during the seven years of plenty. Seven years of plenty but then seven years of famine. Later in the story, the guy finally remembered Joseph and his ability to interpret dreams. Joseph asked him to remember him but he doesn’t.ĭo you find at times you’re caught in quicksand with one bad thing after another happening? Does life interpret your dream? It’s the loneliest place in the world to be on the boulevard of broken dreams. While in jail, Joseph interpreted the other jailers’ dreams. But then once again his life turned for the bad. Then his life took a turn for the better. Joseph had great dreams but life took a turn and cast him down. When have you found that feeling in your life? From that point we see Joseph walking down the boulevard of broken dreams. Brothers then take his coat, dip it in animal blood, and take it to their father. Caravan of traffickers come along and the brothers sell him to them instead. Now they hate him even more after he tells them both dreams.Īt first, they thought they might kill him but decided to throw him into a pit where dreams go to die. Again he tells the dream of the sun and moon and stars bowing down to him to not only his brothers but his father as well. Then he has another dream that goes further. Unfortunately, he tells the dream to his brothers of wheat bowing down to him. He gave him this magnificent coat of many colors. Jacob, also called Israel, had 12 sons with Joseph being his favorite. Kinda the same type of depression story-a boulevard of broken dreams. In Helnwein’s painting, he replaces the three patrons shown in Hopper’s painting with the American pop culture icons Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe (my husband’s fav), James Dean, and with Elvis Presley (my fav) as the attendant. Helnwein’s painting is a parody of a 1942 painting by Edward Hopper entitled Nighthawks. Boulevard of Broken Dreams is a 1984 Gottfried Helnwein painting. The title of this song is also the title of a famous painting. It speaks to estrangement and how the singer’s hopes have been crushed. In their song, they lament about the American Dream and how it can let you down. Remember the song, “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” by Green Day? Green Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1986. Things left by the road to rust or decay. An empty road strewn about with bits and pieces of things that used to work, but that no longer resemble anything once dreamt of or needed. What do you see in your mind when you think about a boulevard of broken dreams? How do you envision it? I see it as something like this photo. It truly is like a boulevard of broken dreams. It’s a sad tale as is the Biblical story of Joseph. The show has little-spoken dialogue and is almost entirely sung-through. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical performed publicly. The story is based on the “coat of many colours” story of Joseph from the Bible’s Book of Genesis. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a musical with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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