The King’s Theatre Glasgow has introduced that Jesus Christ Celebrity, produced by David Ian for Crossroads Dwell and Work Mild Productions, will star Julian Clary within the function of Herod. This Oliver Award-winning reimagined manufacturing of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s celebrated musical may even star Ian McIntosh as Jesus, Shem Omari James as Judas and Hannah Richardson as Mary.
Julian Clary stated: ‘I’m so thrilled to be part of this superb manufacturing and sit up for presenting my crazed, queer, imperious King Herod. I’m considering Putin meets Cleopatra with a touch of Biggins.’
Julian’s profession started engaged on the cabaret circuit within the early 80s as The Joan Collins Fan Membership. Following an look on Saturday Night time Dwell, Channel 4 supplied him his personal present, Sticky Moments. Extra TV adopted, together with Terry and Julian, All Rise for Julian Clary, Prickly Warmth, It’s Solely TV However I Like It, Strictly Come Dancing, Have I Obtained Information For You, Who Do You Suppose You Are?, QI, Movie star Massive Brother, Your Face Sounds Acquainted, Piers Morgan’s Life Tales, Give a Pet a Residence, Nature Nuts and Passions. His theatre credit embody Leigh Bowery in Boy George’s Taboo, the Emcee in Rufus Norris’s Olivier Award-winning manufacturing of Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret and Le Grand Mort, Norman in The Dresser, Bleak Expectations.
Julian is an everyday panellist on Radio 4’s Only a Minute. His writing contains his memoir A Younger Man’s Passage, a number of grownup novels and his on-going sequence for youngsters, The Bolds. His newest memoir The Lick of Love was revealed in 2021. In December 2023, Julian can be showing in Peter Pan, which can be his eighth consecutive look at The London Palladium.
He can be collaborating in a worldwide phenomenon that has wowed audiences for many years, with its iconic Seventies rock rating, which was initially launched as an idea album and opened on Broadway in 1971 on the Mark Hellinger Theatre. The unique London manufacturing ran for over eight years. By the point it closed, after 3,358 performances, it had turn into the longest-running musical in West Finish historical past at the moment. Jesus Christ Celebrity has been reproduced repeatedly all over the world within the years since its first look, with performances together with a Broadway revival in 2012, an ITV competitors TV present referred to as Celebrity that led to casting Ben Forster as Jesus in an area tour of the present, and a manufacturing on the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre celebrating 45 years because the musical’s Broadway debut.
The story is about in opposition to the backdrop of a unprecedented sequence of occasions in the course of the last weeks within the lifetime of Jesus Christ, as seen via the eyes of Judas. Reflecting the rock roots that outlined a era, the legendary rating contains ‘I Don’t Know Love Him’, ‘Gethsemane’ and ‘Celebrity’.
This manufacturing of Jesus Christ Celebrity gained the 2017 Olivier Award for Greatest Musical Revival and the 2016 Night Customary Award for Greatest Musical, promoting out two consecutive engagements in 2016 and 2017. The manufacturing performed a West Finish engagement on the Barbican in 2019 earlier than returning to Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in live performance model in the course of the summer season of 2020. The UK Tour runs in tandem with the vastly profitable North America tour of the manufacturing which has thus far performed over 700 performances in over 90 venues because the tour opened in October 2019.
This manufacturing is helmed by director Timothy Sheader and choreographer Drew McOnie. Finishing the artistic crew is design by Tom Scutt, lighting design by Lee Curran, sound design by Nick Lidster and music supervision by Tom Deering.
Julian Clary performs the function of Herod in Manchester, Newcastle, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Liverpool. Casting for different venues is to be introduced.
LISTINGS
Jesus Christ Celebrity
Mon 16 – Sat 21 Oct 2023
King’s Theatre Glasgow
Mon – Sat at 7.30pm
Wed and Sat at 2.30pm
SCOTTISH TOUR DATES
Aberdeen, His Majesty’s Theatre
10 – 14 October 2023
www.aberdeenperformingarts.
Edinburgh Playhouse
06 – 10 February 2024
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Eden Court docket Theatre, Inverness
5 – 9 March 2024
Additional tour dates to be introduced.
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