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Update: Phillipa Soo will take the role of Mary Magdalene in next month’s Jesus Chris Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl, and Josh Gad has been cast as King Herod.

Previous, July 11: Milo Manheim and Raúl Esparza have joined the cast of next month’s Hollywood Bowl production of Jesus Christ Superstar starring the previously announced Cynthia Erivo and Adam Lambert.

Manheim will play the role of Peter and Esparza will play Pontius Pilate. Erivo is playing Jesus and Lambert is Judas. Additional casting will be announced. Sergio Trujillo directs.

The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical will be performed on Friday, August 1, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, August 2, at 8 p.m.; and Sunday, August 3, at 7:30 p.m.

Manheim currently stars as Wally Clark in Paramount+’s YA drama series School Spirits, which released its second season earlier this year.

Though there are a handful of good documentaries that tell the story of disco and capture the genre's dancefloor exuberance, feature films looking back on its heyday often fall short – or at least miss the finer points. (54, the Ryan Phillippe-Salma Hayek flick about Studio 54, didn't even include its best-known song "I Will Survive.")

Jonathan Ullman, the director of 2011's Trouble in the Heights, is looking to change that with a new independent movie about the Paradise Garage, Studio 54's funkier, underground downtown cousin. "The Paradise Garage was more than a nightclub,...