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\n\tAdam Lambert<\/a> is championing Cynthia Erivo<\/a> in Jesus Christ Superstar<\/a><\/em><\/a>, despite backlash surrounding her casting<\/a> as the titular role.<\/p>\n \n\tIn Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice\u2019s musical, the Tony Award winner<\/a> portrayed Jesus alongside the American Idol<\/em><\/a> alum as Judas at the Hollywood Bowl<\/a> for the first three nights of August.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tWhen news of Erivo\u2019s casting was announced, it was criticized because she is a Black queer woman. However, Lambert doesn\u2019t share the same concerns, and admitted in an interview with Billboard<\/em><\/a> that he was \u201cexcited by the challenge\u201d of the Oscar nominee<\/a> leading Jesus Christ<\/em> Superstar<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cCynthia\u2019s brilliant. Her voice, presence, and simultaneous power and vulnerability absolutely blows my mind and working with her has been a dream,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m excited by the challenge of presenting the audience with a production led by a female, Black \u2018Jesus\u2019 and encourage the audience to expand their minds a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tLambert added, \u201cOriginally utilizing rock and roll, Jesus Christ Superstar<\/em> is supposed to provoke and challenge, that\u2019s the point. And shouldn\u2019t the teachings of Jesus transcend gender?\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe Wicked<\/em><\/a> star previously responded to the backlash of her being cast as Jesus in the musical in a June interview with Billboard<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cYou can\u2019t please everyone,\u201d Erivo said. \u201cIt is legitimately a three-day performance at the Hollywood Bowl where I get to sing my face off. So hopefully they will come and realize, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s a musical, the gayest place on Earth.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tJesus Christ Superstar<\/em> kicked off its consecutive three-day run at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday night. Erivo will next been seen on the silver screen in the highly anticipated Wicked: For Good<\/em><\/a>, the followup to Jon M. Chu\u2019s Wicked<\/a><\/em>, on Nov. 21.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Adam Lambert is championing Cynthia Erivo in Jesus Christ Superstar, despite backlash surrounding her casting as the titular role. In Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice\u2019s musical, the Tony Award winner portrayed Jesus alongside the American Idol alum as Judas at the Hollywood Bowl for the first three nights of August.\u00a0 When news of Erivo\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1470,2448,2446,2443,2442,2444,2445,1471,2447],"class_list":{"0":"post-2206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fashion","8":"tag-adam","9":"tag-casting","10":"tag-christ","11":"tag-cynthia","12":"tag-defends","13":"tag-erivos","14":"tag-jesus","15":"tag-lambert","16":"tag-superstar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/2208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}