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 musical’s Messiah, 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 realize, ‘Oh, it’s a musical, the gayest place on Earth.’”

The campy Andrew Lloyd Webber rock opera has been called blasphemous since it debuted as a concept album in 1970.

Infused with modern references and a subversive, secular attitude, many religious groups condemned the show for depicting Jesus as a flawed hero, painting Judas too sympathetically and for implying a romance between the so

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