{"id":97665,"date":"2025-08-01T07:11:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T07:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/why-john-stamos-replaced-josh-gad-in-jesus-christ-superstar\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T07:11:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T07:11:55","slug":"why-john-stamos-replaced-josh-gad-in-jesus-christ-superstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/why-john-stamos-replaced-josh-gad-in-jesus-christ-superstar\/","title":{"rendered":"Why John Stamos Replaced Josh Gad in Jesus Christ Superstar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/john_stamos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\"><strong>John Stamos<\/strong><\/a> is ready to be a hit around here.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Full House<\/em> alum revealed that he will serve as the last-minute replacement for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/josh_gad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Josh Gad<\/strong><\/a> in an upcoming theater production of <em>Jesus Christ Superstar <\/em>at Los Angeles&#8217; Hollywood Bowl, which stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/cynthia_erivo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Cynthia Erivo<\/strong><\/a> in the titular role and runs for one weekend from Aug. 1 to Aug. 3.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well\u2026 this weekend just got Biblical,&#8221; John wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMyqGWcS12F\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=7549a4e2-0334-46a9-b2bc-a092dfca137d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">July 31 Instagram post<\/a>. &#8220;I\u2019m stepping in as King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar at the @HollywoodBowl, starring the brilliant @cynthiaerivo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And John also provided insight into why he was taking on the role of King Herod for Josh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;King @Joshgad unexpectedly got hit with COVID (feel better soon, brother!),&#8221; he continued, &#8220;and while I didn\u2019t push him down the stairs, I am grateful for the chance to step into the gold lam\u00e9.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, John was so overjoyed to meet <em>Jesus Christ Superstar<\/em> face to face that he arrived at rehearsals immediately after coming off tour with <strong>The Beach Boys<\/strong>, where he joined the band as a guest performer in Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1420628\/why-john-stamos-replaced-josh-gad-in-jesus-christ-superstar?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Stamos is ready to be a hit around here. The Full House alum revealed that he will serve as the last-minute replacement for Josh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity","category-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}