AD/BC: A Rock Opera

AD/BC: A Rock Opera

30 mins | Comedy, Music | Dec. 21, 2004

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.

AD/BC: A Rock Opera

30 mins | Comedy, Music | Dec. 21, 2004

AD/BC: A Rock Opera
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.
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers Baby Cow Productions, BBC
Original title AD/BC: A Rock Opera
Directors Richard Ayoade
Writers Richard Ayoade

Cast

Matt Berry

as Innkeeper / Tim Wynde

Julia Davis

as Ruth

Julian Barratt

as Tony Iscariot

Richard Ayoade

as Joseph

Matt Lucas

as God

Noel Fielding

as Shepherd

Rich Fulcher

as Townsfolk

Graham Linehan

as Townsfolk

Sophie Winkleman

as Wise Man

Laurence Fox

as Townsfolk

Karl Theobald

as Shepherd

Lucy Montgomery

as Wise Man

Lydia Fox

as Wise Man

Tom Hillenbrand

as Shephard

Dan Antopolski

as King Herod