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  • Close Every Door
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  • 2007 singles
  • 1992 singles
  • 1968 songs
  • Donny Osmond songs
  • Songs with lyrics by Tim Rice
  • Jason Donovan songs
  • Songs with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Songs from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
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  • %22Close Every Door%22 is a song from the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is the penultimate song of the first act of the musical, sung by Joseph while imprisoned for his supposed relationship with Potiphar's wife. Along with %22Any Dream Will Do%22, it is one of the most popular songs from the musical.In addition to voicing Joseph's despair at being jailed for a crime he did not commit, the song appears to contain oblique references to the Jewish Holocaust of World War II. Lyrics such as %22Just give me a number/Instead of my name ... Destroy me completely/Then throw me away%22 reflect the well-documented Nazi practices of tattooing numbers on imprisoned Jews and working them to death (or gassing them) in concentration camps, then burning the bodies or burying them in mass graves. The lyrics have even been incorporated into a Seder service for educators in New South Wales.The song was released as a single by former BBC children's TV anchor Phillip Schofield in 1992, when he played the role of Joseph in the London Palladium production, with %22Any Dream Will Do%22 as a B-side. The single peaked 27 in the UK charts. He later sang Close Every Door at the Royal Variety Performance.A special cello version of the song was recorded by Julian Lloyd Webber for the 2001 album Lloyd Webber Plays Lloyd Webber.The song was used as the exit song on Andrew Lloyd Webber's BBC One reality show Any Dream Will Do, sung by the %22Joseph%22 leaving each show as he hands his dreamcoat back to the remaining contestants. On 9 June 2007 The Phantom of the Opera ensemble member and Raoul understudy Lee Mead won the role of Joseph.On 10 June 2007, Mead recorded Any Dream Will Do and was joined by third-placed Lewis Bradley and second-placed Keith Jack on %22Close Every Door%22. The single was released to raise funds for the BBC's Children in Need charity. On 17 June 2007 Mead's solo track entered the UK singles chart at No.18 on downloads only. A double A-sided CD single of both Mead's solo track and the ensemble recording was released on 18 June 2007. The single, credited to Mead, rose to No. 2 on 24 June 2007.
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  • english
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  • Close Every Door
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