[Gwen]

Did anyone else have a production with small solos for a camel, sphynx, and...Queen Victoria? (I don't know where she fits in, but apparently she's there.)

[Baker]

We noticed Queen Victoria in the script when my school did it... no one knew what the heck it was though...

[Beagle On Stage]

They appear between "One More Angel" and "Potiphar." They're just cute little gag cameos, they show up and sing variations of the "Poor, poor Joseph..." refrain while he's on the journey to Egypt.

It's a good idea, but personally I think it's best to adapt it rather than use it as written. It's just too random to have Queen Victoria suddenly pop in, sing a few bars, and vanish, leaving the audience thinking WTF? I've never seen the whole sequence done as written. It's better to keep the scene, but assign the refrains to characters that make more sense. You might give them to the Narrator or the Ishmaelites, for example. Or, in the current tour, a snake puppet pops up and sings one of them to Joseph.

(My production did actually use a sphinx for the final one. We had a painting of the great sphinx done which was pushed onstage. It could open its eyes and move its mouth while someone sang the line for it, and was always good for an audience laugh.)

[Gwen]

Well, yeah. We don't really have a sphynx, we have a pyramid. But we have a face at the top (which is actually quite decent looking in my opinion,) and the mouth moves. It's a bit sloppy as it was never rehearsed, but it's great for a laugh.