Ticket sales for the live stadium show Ben Hur are expected to skyrocket after Oscar winner Russell Crowe decided to join the 200-strong cast for two Sydney performances.
Crowe, who won an Oscar playing the Roman commander Maximus in Ridley Scott's 2000 epic film Gladiator, will be the narrator of the production, which tells the story of a galley slave who dared to defy the Roman Empire.
"It's not a play. It's not a musical. It's a spectacle. And you know you've got your chariot races, you've got a boat being boarded by female pirates, Pontius Pilate making his decision over Christ's future, so it's gigantic, it's amazing," Crowe said in Sydney on Tuesday.
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