Artwork by Really Useful Group |
Music by: Andrew Lloyd Weber Artistic Director - Carol Wells Musical Director - Bruce McGregor Choreographer - Allison Beula |
| Executive Producer - Beth Cole Producer - Gerd Richter | |
Nov 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 Friday and Saturday Evening Performances at 8:00 PM (except Sat Nov 30th); Sunday and Sat Nov 30th Matinee Performances at 2:00 PM Tickets: Location: |
Cast List: Updated Sept 30
Ensemble: |
Written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, Evita opened on Broadway in 1979 and continued to run for 1,567 performances. It won seven of its eleven Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical, and the poignant song "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" remains a standout favourite from the score.
Evita chronicles the life of Eva Peron, second wife of Argentine president Juan Peron. In a time and place where women had few opportunities - and poor women even fewer - she rose to become the most powerful woman her country had ever seen. But this story is no mere history lesson. As we follow Eva's climb to the top, we are called upon to examine our society's fascination with power, wealth, and glamour.
Eva defines herself by her "star quality" and ability to woo the public with image; perhaps this is not history at all! Join us for an evening of virtuosic performance, brilliant music, and riveting ideas. Allow yourself to be dazzled by Evita.
Artistic Director, Carol Wells
It is 1952 in Buenos Aires. On the day of Eva Peron's funeral, Che Guevara tells us about her life. She started as Eva Duarte in rural Junin, seduces a nightclub singer, uses him to get to Buenos Aires and works her way through men to become a model, braodcaster and starlet. When she meets political comer Juan Peron, she attaches herself to him and marries him, much to the consternation of the army and the aristocracy. She works on the lower classes to make certain they're behind her husband, and he wins the presidential election. That accomplished, Eva embarks on a world tour, the Rainbow Tour as it is dubbed. It is not the success that Eva, and Argentina, hoped for. Spain greeted her but elsewhere the reception was somewhat cool. She returns to Argentina and sets up the Eva Peron Foundation. This proves to be successful and popular but Eva is unwell. She desperately wants to become vice-president to her husband but politically this proves not to be possible. She goes on radio to turn down the offer of the honour of vice-president - even though it was never offered to her. On her deathbed she says she hopes she will be remembered to those who will succeed her.