Tyrone Huntley will reprise his Olivier Award nominated performance as Judas Iscariot alongside Olivier Award winner David Thaxton who will return to the role of Pontius Pilate in this summer’s London Palladium run of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar.
The return of Huntley (Dreamgirls, The Book of Mormon) and Thaxton (Sunset Boulevard, West End/Broadway, Passion, Donmar Warehouse) to the roles they first played when the production debuted at London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre was announced alongside the casting of Desmonda Cathabel (Hadestown, Lyric Theatre, Miss Saigon, Sheffield Crucible) as Mary Magdalene.
They will join singer/songwriter Sam Ryder who will make his West End debut in the title role in the production which will play the famous theatre from 20 June to 5 September.
As previously announced, six actors – Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Simon Russell Beale, Richard Armitage, Boy George, Layton Williams and Julian Clary – will each will take on the role of Herod for a number of performances during the run.
Tony Award winner and Emmy Award nominee role Ferguson (Modern Family, Take Me Out/The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) will play Herod from 20 June to 11 July, before Olivier, BAFTA and Tony Award winner Beale (The Lehman Trilogy, The Tempest) steps in from 13-25 July followed by Olivier Award nominee Richard Armitage (The Crucible, The Hobbit trilogy) from 27 July to 1 August.
Grammy Award-winning singer Boy George (Moulin Rouge! The Musical) will take over from 3-15 August (apart from 8 August) with Olivier Award winner Layton Williams (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Cabaret, Titanique) stepping in from 17-29 August and Julian Clary (Taboo, West End/UK tour, Cabaret, West End) returning to the role he previously played on the 2023/2024 tour from 31 August to 5 September.
Presented by Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals, by arrangement with LW Entertainment, the acclaimed Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production features direction by Tim Sheader, choreography by Drew McOnie, design by Tom Scutt, music supervision by Tom Deering, lighting design by Lee Curran and sound design by Adam Fisher. The fight director is Kate Waters and the casting director is David Grindrod for Grindrod Burton Casting.
Winner of the 2017 Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival and the 2016 Evening Standard Award for Best Musical, the production sold out consecutive runs at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in 2016 and 2017 before playing a West End transfer season at the Barbican in 2019. The production also embarked on an extensive North American tour in 2019 before returning to Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in a concert version during the summer of 2020. The production also toured the UK in 2023 and 2024.
Angela Thomas
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