Cynthia Erivo at an Oscars after-party in March

Cynthia Erivo’s reaction to critics of her Jesus Christ Superstar casting is simply divine.

Asked about the outcry over tapping a queer, Black woman to play the lead in the musical, she told Billboard: “Why not? You can’t please everyone.”

“It is legitimately a three-day performance at the Hollywood Bowl where I get to sing my face off,” the Wicked star added.

“So hopefully they will come and realise, ‘Oh, it’s a musical, the gayest place on Earth’.”

The campy Andrew Lloyd Webber rock opera has been called........

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