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Elena Roger is in a chatty mood late one Friday afternoon, which comes as something of a happy surprise. On the one hand, one might assume she would prefer not to speak, since she has to conserve her vocal energies for the role that has made her an overnight West End star: Eva Peron in the Michael Grandage revival of Evita, the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical that reopened on June 21, 28 years to the day after the original Hal Prince production made theatrical history. This latest incarnation makes its own kind of history, insofar as Roger, who will be 32 in October, is the first-ever Argentine performer to star in this definably English show.
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