A host of celebrities including Amanda Holden and Jennifer Saunders have turned out to the first performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's arena production of Jesus Christ Superstar. The show features Ben Forster - who won ITV1's talent search Superstar earlier this summer - in the lead role, alongside and Mel C, who was a judge on the show, in the role of Mary Madgalene, former Radio 1 DJ as King Herod and comedian Tim Minchin as Judas. Moyles, who left his Radio 1 breakfast show last week, plays the character as a Jeremy Kyle-style TV presenter who confronts Jesus on his TV show Hark! With Herod - while other aspects of the production have also been updated. Amanda Holden, who hosted the TV show, said that Forster had 'something special'. "Mel has an outrageously brilliant voice," she added. "Chris Moyles, I have no idea, but I think he and Herod probably have a lot in common." She also revealed that the show "wasn't written for the theatre," saying, "It was written as a rock arena tour, so it's going to be something completely different." Other guests at the performance included The Voice's Tyler James and choreographer Arlene Phillips as well as the show's other judges Jason Donovan and Dawn French.
