Hundreds of Warren County School District students were taken to Warren Area High School for a one-hour preview of ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’.

In the morning, the cast and crew put on a performance for the second- through fifth-graders from Warren Area Elementary Center and Beaty-Warren Middle School. In the afternoon, they did the same for the same age groups from Eisenhower, Sheffield, and Youngsville elementary schools.

It was just a shortened version of the show.

Director Jennifer Check talked to the youngsters about the importance of having live music performed by students and adults in the pit orchestra and about the lighting operators in the booths above and behind them.

Times Observer photo by Brian Ferry Trombonist Camden Drayer is in-costume as he plays in the orchestra during a preview performance of the All-County Musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for students in grades two through five Wednesday at Warren Area High School.

She also left the curtains open for some set changes, giving the young students a behind-the-scenes look at the production.

Some of the students’ contemporaries were called from their seats in the auditorium to join the production — about 50 students in grades kindergarten through eight are among the children’s choir.

The performances for the show will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 31, and Friday, April 1, and at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, April 2, at Warren Area High School.

Times Observer photo by Brian Ferry Joseph’s brothers tell him how they really feel during a preview performance of the All-County Musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for students in grades two through five Wednesday at Warren Area High School.

Times Observer photo by Brian Ferry Joseph (Logan Johnson) shows some of the amazing colors of his dreamcoat during a preview performance of the All-County Musical ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ Wednesday at Warren Area High School.