John Stamos slips into King Herod's golden slippers just a few hours before the curtain Jesus Christ Superstar In Hollywood Bowl.
Stamos' Last -Minute -casting comes after Josh Gad announced yesterday not to prove the throne on Friday evening.
“With an enormous heartache, I gave you what I unfortunately inform with a virus known as a covid (you remember this little bastard from the first season of” Earth Really Suction “.”
Stamos is not just a pretty face. Apart from his acting, he has been a musician for decades and regularly played with the Beach Boys. He also took part in the Broadway resuscitation of part Bye birdie and played kitschy collins in Hairspray In the bowl in 2011.
“I am grateful for the chance to step into the Goldlamé,” Stamos wrote on Instagram. “This is an honor. A dream. And also a little crazy because … I just stepped in a plane from @TeBeachboys tour in Spain and had less than 24 hours to do this.”
King Herod was played by Paul Ainsley in the original Broadway production from 1971 and by Josh Mostel in 1973. Alice Cooper rocked the part In NBCS 2018 Live concert version of the musical.
For the Bowl Show of this weekend, Cynthia Erivo was filled in the biblical role of the same name in February when the staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Musical was announced, which ran from August 1 to 33. Adam Lambert was later occupied as Judas, with Milo Manheim and Raúl Esparza also joined when Peter and Pontius Pilatus. Phillipa Soo will play Mary Magdalene.
Directed and choreographed by Tony winner Trujillo, The Hollywood Bowls Jesus Christ Superstar is carried out by Stephen Oremus and the music is excited (which worked both on Broadway and on the film versions of Evil). The show is produced in collaboration with Neil Meron and Robert Greenblatt.