The mothers looked out for him through his time in high school, where he was the rare teenager who excelled at both sports and theater (he played Judas in "Godspell"), and again after his father died when he was 20.
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Andrew O'Keefe played King Herod in Australia, with Jon Stevens as Pilate. Stevens had played Judas in an Australian arena tour in 1992. In 2016, celebrating 45 years since the musical debuted on Broadway, Jesus Christ Superstar returned to London at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre from 15 July to 27 August, directed by Timothy Sheader.
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Walter Winchell, "Case Histories of Nazi Stooges Who Played Judas to Uncle Sam", Syracuse Herald Journal, November 12, 1947, at page 39. When the charges were formally dropped on April 14, 1948, the investigators explained that none of Drexel's broadcasts was "political in nature"."Constance Drexel Freed of Charges", The New York Times, April 14, 1948.
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When the 1973 film version and its accompanying soundtrack was released, Carl Anderson played Judas. During the scene in the film when the song "Superstar" is played, Anderson was lowered onto the stage by a crane made to look like a star during the song's intro. Ted Neeley as Jesus is shown during the song being lowered onto a cross.
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He played Judas in Pilate Project. He performed in Boyd's critically acclaimed Histories cycle in Stratford-Upon-Avon and at The Roundhouse, Camden, in 2006–2008. His roles in the cycle included Bagot in Richard II, Rumour in Henry IV, Part Two, Chorus in Henry V and King Edward IV in Henry VI and Richard III. In 2009 he played Samson in Boyd's production of The Grain Store.
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The song reached the top ten of the charts in most major music markets, and also reached the top of the charts in South Korea. A music video for the song was filmed in April 2011, co-directed by Gaga and Laurieann Gibson and co-starring Norman Reedus. It has a Biblical storyline where Reedus played Judas Iscariot and Gaga played Mary Magdalene. The video portrays them as modern day missionaries going to Jerusalem.
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Retrieved 29 September 2020 In later years Wheatley worked mostly on radio, as narrator and poetry- reader as well as actor. In 1975 he played Judas Iscariot in the 12-part cycle The Man Born to be King by Dorothy L. Sayers. He acted in adaptations of plays by writers including Noël Coward and Somerset Maugham, and of novels by Alexandre Dumas, James Hilton, Anthony Powell and C. P. Snow among others.
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In 1992, six years after her divorce from Ali, Porche married jazz artist and actor Carl Anderson, who played Judas Iscariot in the original production of Jesus Christ Superstar, as well as the 1973 film of the same name. The couple traveled together in the mid 1990s when Anderson reprised his role and toured the United States. Anderson died of leukemia in 2004. In May 2007, she appeared with her two daughters, Laila and Hana, on Dancing with the Stars.
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The Raymond Raikes production reduced the episodes from one hour to forty-five minutes, and condensed the casts in various ways—for instance by making The Evangelist, the narrator figure, the same voice as John the disciple (an identification strongly supported by the text of the fifth play). Heron Carvic, originally suggested by the writer, played Caiaphas in every version of the cycle (as well as in the broadcast of Sayers' Lichfield Passion in 1947). Alan Wheatley played Judas in all but the 1965 production.
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Sarich received a BFA in Musical Theatre with a concentration in Directing from Boston Conservatory in 1997. He made his Off- Broadway debut in Tony n' Tina's Wedding, followed by a tour as a backup singer for Liza Minnelli with the Cortes Alexander Trio. In 1998, he played Judas in a production of Jesus Christ Superstar in Nyack, New York, opposite Billy Porter. In 1999, Sarich moved to Berlin to star as Quasimodo in Der Glöckner von Notre Dame, in which he appeared for over 580 performances.
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He took the place of singer Carl Anderson, who had played Judas since 1971 alongside Neeley and was set to reprise the role, but had died of leukemia in 2004. The tour ran through 2010. Glover told Neeley that when he was a child, seeing the movie version of the show was what made him decide to be an entertainer.Nwherald.com In June 2008, Glover left the show to rejoin with Living Colour and to work on the next CD. On September 15, 2009, Living Colour released their fifth studio album, The Chair in the Doorway.
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Hardwicke had a small role in "The Greek Interpreter" episode of the 1968 series Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes featuring Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes. Hardwicke played Judas Iscariot in the Dennis Potter TV play Son of Man (1969). He became familiar to television audiences in the 1970s drama series Colditz, in which he played Pat Grant, a character based on the real-life war hero Pat Reid. He then played Arthur in the sitcom My Old Man. In 1978 he appeared as Bellcourt in the last filmed episode of The Sweeney, "Hearts and Minds".
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Sarich appeared in other musicals while in Europe. He played the title character(s) in Jekyll and Hyde in Cologne, Germany, followed by Sun/Master of the Keys in Barbarella (opened March 11, 2004). He then took part in three performances of Jesus Christ Superstar: two concert renditions in Passau, Germany and Vienna, in which he played Jesus, and then a staged production in Amstetten, in which he was played Judas. He also played the title role in Dracula, the Musical in St Gallen (sharing the role with Thomas Borchert). Sarich made his Broadway debut in Spring 2006, when he took on the role of Armand in the musical Lestat.
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In July, he performed the title role in a new musical version of Peter Pan, first playing at the Grand Canal Theatre, Dublin over the summer and then at the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, for the Christmas period. On 21 October 2011, Boys played Judas in the 40th anniversary production of Godspell alongside Kerry Ellis at the Palace Theatre, Manchester. On 6 May 2012, he was one of the headline performers in "The Night of 1000 Voices" at the Royal Albert Hall. and then completed a run as Algernon in a new musical version of The Importance of Being Earnest at the Theatre Royal, Windsor.
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The tour traveled across the country from 21 September until 21 October 2012 and toured in the following venues: London O2 Arena, Glasgow SECC, Newcastle Metro Radio Arena, Manchester Arena, Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, National Indoor Arena Birmingham, Belfast Odyssey, The O2 Dublin, Echo Arena Liverpool, Nottingham Capital FM and Motorpoint Arena Sheffield. Joining Forster was comedian Tim Minchin as Judas Iscariot, Melanie Chisholm as Mary Magdalene, BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles as King Herod Antipas, Alexander Hanson as Pontius Pilate, Pete Gallagher as Caiaphas, Gerard Bentall as Annas, Michael Pickering as Peter, and Giovanni Spano as Simon Zealotes. The tour resumed in March 2013 in Australia with Forster, Minchin, and Chisholm reprising their respective roles. Australian TV personality Andrew O'Keefe played the role of King Herod for the Australian leg of the tour, with New Zealand born Jon Stevens (who played Judas in the 1992 Australian arena tour and the 1994 theatre production) playing Pilate.
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