Evita
Jamie Lloyd’s production of the Lloyd Webber/Rice musical fills the London Palladium on a hot evening, famously even spilling onto the balcony which has caused some newspaper pieces as well as social media ‘fuss’. Rachel Zegler, who has just been in the Snow White live action remake, takes the title role and genuinely she is the best thing in the show—not just with the sweet voice of a Disney alum, but raunchy in a production that sexualises almost every character including many of Peron’s military associates. The staging is limited to an ascending platform, like the seating at a sports arena, and otherwise all is darkness pierced by light. And the volume is set to loud. The story of Eva Peron’s rise, written in the seventies and sounding every bit like the Englishmen who wrote it, has somehow retained popularity because of the songs and the quality of the casting. Formerly a concept album it has gone as far as finding itself on film and the casting of Latino performers gives it more p...