AD/BC: A Rock Opera

Dec 21, 2004

0h 30m

★ 6.3

Overview

An all-singing, all-dancing, star-spangled musical leap around the biblical story of the Nativity, set in 1972. With a comic twist, this familiar story is brought to life through the eyes of the innkeeper. Despairing after a bad year, he contemplates suicide but his attempt is stalled by a voice from above who points out that King Herod is coming to town.

Genres

Comedy

Music

Production Companies

Baby Cow Productions

BBC

AD/BC: A Rock Opera Trailers

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Cast

Innkeeper / Tim Wynde

Matt Berry

Tony Iscariot

Julian Barratt

Ruth

Julia Davis

Joseph

Richard Ayoade

God

Matt Lucas

Shepherd

Noel Fielding

Shephard

Tom Hillenbrand

Shepherd

Karl Theobald

Wise Man

Lydia Fox

Wise Man

Lucy Montgomery

Wise Man

Sophie Winkleman

Townsfolk

Marc Cieslak

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