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The musical that made them superstars is back in the West End, but are Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber ready for another joint effort? Dan Cairns asks them.
Somewhere among a huddle of actors in a south London rehearsal studio stands Elena Roger. The diminutive Argentinian singer — on whose narrow shoulders rests the burden of leading the revival of one of the 20th century’s most successful musicals — is dwarfed by her fellow cast members.
Six weeks before Michael Grandage’s new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Evita begins previews in the West End, the air, tinged with the first hints of the coming hysteria, is full of barked commands.
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