You eventually took over from Steve Balsamo who was playing Jesus in that 1996 Lyceum production didn't you?
Steve was fantastic in the role. A beautiful voice and a great guy. He was a joy to cover and to know. A lovely fella.
赞美赞美 ❤️!
He stayed for a year, then he got a record deal with Sony and left. But then the producers didn't want to give me the role of Jesus permanently. I was too useful as the understudy, so they auditioned for weeks and weeks to find a replacement Jesus. But they struggled to find the right person. They reluctantly said would I go and audition for it. So even after playing the role at the Lyceum, getting good reviews for doing it too, they wouldn't give it to me.
现在西区也有好多演员当替补当好多年，即使收到好评被公认能负担得起主角但还是不给。是不是就因为有他们做替补太可靠了？
A producer named Kevin Wallace had just taken over at the Really Useful theatre company, running it for Andrew Lloyd Webber. On the day he came over for his final interview for the job, Andrew Lloyd Webber was running late so they said to Kevin, go and see Jesus Christ Superstar because that has a performance this afternoon.
I was playing Jesus at that matinee, and he thought I was the Jesus, not the understudy. So at the interview he apparently said "I saw your Jesus today", And they said "Oh yeah, Steve's great!"
So Kevin told him he hadn't seen Steve, he saw a guy with curly hair.
"Oh yeah you saw the understudy" came the reply.
又是头发……😂
And from that moment on Kevin became my champion, he told them he could not imagine anybody else playing the role. And although he loved Steve's performance, I was then his Jesus. That was it for Kevin. He started to push for me, and that is when everyone else at Really Useful started to consider that I could be Jesus in my own right in the show.
Even so, they made me go through a long audition process, there was no way they were comfortable giving it to me for some reason. But when they did, I didn't miss a show for the nine months. I played it until the show closed.
不认识 Kevin Wallace 这名字，但是要谢谢他那么支持卡特！
