When was evita first performed

Cassie Rand. Morgan Richardson. Drusilla Ross. Allison Smith. Nov - Jan 19, James Stein. Wilfredo Suarez. Claude Tessier. Leslie Tinnaro. Ian Michael Towers. Kenneth W. James Whitson Broadway debut. A Cinema in Buenos Aires; July 26, Requiem for Evita. Oh What a Circus. On This Night of a Thousand Stars. Eva Beware of the City. Goodnight and Thank You. The Art of the Possible. Charity Concert. I'd Be Surprisingly Good for You. Another Suitcase in Another Hall. A New Argentina. On the Balcony of the Casa Rosada.

Don't Cry for Me Argentina. High Flying Adored. Waltz for Eva and Che. She is a Diamond. Dice Are Rolling. Eva's Final Broadcast.

Best Musical. Best Book of a Musical. Best Original Score. Best Actress in a Musical. Best Featured Actor in a Musical. Best Scenic Design. Best Costume Design. Best Lighting Design. Best Choreography. Best Direction of a Musical. Outstanding Musical. Outstanding Actor in a Musical. Outstanding Actress in a Musical.

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical. Outstanding Choreography. Outstanding Director of a Musical. Outstanding Lyrics. Outstanding Music. Outstanding Costume Design. Outstanding Lighting Design. People Songs Awards. Peter Pan Sep 06, Jan 04, Shirley Bassey Sep 10, Sep 22, On Golden Pond Sep 12, Apr 20, Evita Sep 25, Jun 26, The evening belongs to the tiny but big-lunged Argentinean Elena Roger, who zooms through with more than 'just a little touch of star quality'.

Misgivings about the production, then, but the work itself must surely now be regarded as a masterpiece of British 20th-century musical theatre. This tiny native of Buenos Aires brings throbbing passion to the title role and can even sing and dance at the same time - don't laugh, many can't. I was not as overwhelmed as the whoopers and the squealers and many of my critical colleagues by Grandage's competent but rarely exciting take on the show.

It's not a patch on the Madonna movie. But it would be churlish to deny Ms Roger's vivacity, Philip Quast's excellent singing as Juan and Matt Rawle's likeable tell-it-like- it-is narrator, Che. The return to London, following a major UK tour, of Bob Tomson and Bill Kenwright's acclaimed revival of the classic musical for an eleven-week season at the Phoenix Theatre.

When this production opened at London's Dominion Theatre in September Dominic Cavendish in the Daily Telegraph described how the "radiant Portuguese star-in-the-making Madalena Alberto's affecting performance had me on the brink of tears at the spectacle of premature death yearning to do more" in a production that is "fluently and lavishly co-directed here by Bob Tomson and Bill Kenwright.

She is simply superb. I ask because the one flaw in this highly skilled revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice show is the lack of attention to vocal detail," adding that "if the show still works, it is largely because it boasts one of Lloyd Webber's best, most tightly composed scores.

And the biggest vacuum is Marti Pellow, whose Che Guevara is so free from charisma it makes you wonder what the character is doing there at all Madalena Alberto fares rather better than Pellow, even if her delivery is more professionally skilful than passionate.

Bob Tomson and Bill Kenwright direct slickly, employing a large ensemble to give a sense of both the lighter and darker sides of Buenos Aires life.

Sarah McNicholas makes the most of her solo as the mistress. The dance sequences are crisp and energetic. Bob Tomson and Bill Kenwright's production is heartfelt and stylish but betrays its touring origins in the lumbering scene changes. Thanks to Andrew Lloyd Webber's passionately pulsating, Latin-inflected orchestrations, a skinny and not terribly dramatic tale acquires an operatic pageant-like grandeur.

And Bill Deamer's choreography makes it dance, filling this show with teasing tangos, passionate pasos dobles and whip-sharp waltzes Madalena Alberto is indeed a star. Like Eva, she knows how to radiate. Only Marti Pellow disappoints as Che, the narrator, cynical about Eva's bid for sainthood and stardom Easy on the eye, he's dreary on the ear, an overgrown, over-amplified boy band crooner.

But even he can't dampen the pleasure of Lloyd Webber at his best. The musical Evita in London at the Phoenix Theatre previewed from 28 July , opened on 2 August , and closed on 14 October The production's beating heart is American actress Samantha Pauly, who possesses a beguiling blend of butter-wouldn't-melt charm and sensual guile, a pristine voice with a steel edge, and more than a touch of star quality But this is a terrific, radical revival with a career-making central performance.

Fabian Aloise's incisive choreography is full of venom A major film adaptation starred Madonna in the title role and Antonio Banderas as Che. Sign up to our mailing list to be one of the first to know about upcoming events and exclusive announcements! Contact Perform A Show. She Seduced a Nation.