John Stamos is sliding into the golden slippers of King Herod simply hours earlier than the curtain comes up on Jesus Christ Famous person on the Hollywood Bowl.
Stamos’ final minute casting comes after Josh Gad introduced yesterday that he would not occupy the throne on Friday night time.
“It’s with monumental heartbreak that I inform you all that sadly, I’ve contracted a virus often called COVID (do not forget that little bastard from season one in every of ‘Earth actually sucks proper now’?)” Gad wrote in on Instagram.
Stamos isn’t just a reasonably face. Past his performing chops, he’s been a musician for many years, most famously taking part in with the Seashore Boys regularly. He additionally participated within the Broadway revival of Bye Bye Birdie and performed Corny Collins in Hairspray on the Bowl in 2011.
“I’m grateful for the prospect to step into the gold lamé,” wrote Stamos on Instagram. “That is an honor. A dream. And in addition just a little insane as a result of… I simply stepped off a aircraft from @thebeachboys tour in Spain and have lower than 24 hours to tug this off.”
King Herod was performed by Paul Ainsley within the unique 1971 Broadway manufacturing and by Josh Mostel within the 1973 movie. Alice Cooper rocked the half in NBC’s 2018 stay live performance model of the musical.
For this weekend’s Bowl present, Cynthia Erivo was solid within the eponymous biblical function again in February, when the staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice‘s musical was introduced, working Aug. 1-3. Adam Lambert was later solid as Judas, with Milo Manheim and Raúl Esparza additionally becoming a member of the solid as Peter and Pontius Pilate. Phillipa Soo will play Mary Magdalene.
Directed and choreographed by Tony winner Trujillo, the Hollywood Bowl’s Jesus Christ Famous person might be carried out and music-directed by Stephen Oremus (who labored on each the Broadway and movie variations of Depraved). The present is being produced in affiliation with Neil Meron and Robert Greenblatt.
