Iscariot

Indeed, with “I Forgive You” and the Tonys on the way, Erivo has also been preparing for another upcoming gig: In August, she’ll play Jesus Christ — “That’s a funny sentence,” she says with a laugh — in a production of “Jesus Christ Superstar” at the Hollywood Bowl that will co-star Adam Lambert as Judas Iscariot.

“He is surely too ashamed to face any of us. Judas Iscariot would have a warmer reception,” said Terra Vance, an Appalachian activist who genealogy records show shares some ancestors with the politician.

“The guy had a trajectory Judas Iscariot would have envied.”

With his long locks, wide-neck T-shirt and gray jeans, Lucas Hamming’s Judas Iscariot, who narrates the story, has something of the beleaguered British comedian Russell Brand about him.

Unsurprisingly, most white Southerners bitterly rejected Longstreet’s entreaties and condemned him as a traitor on par with Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold.