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Grandage boosts tuner's Latin flavor
If proof were needed that theater folk are superstitious, consider the June 21 West End opening date for London's upcoming Evita, at the Adelphi Theater. It's exactly 28 years to the day since the opening night of Hal Prince's iconic premiere production. But if Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice are hoping for lightning to strike twice -- the original ran eight years in London alone -- they're going about it in an unusually adventurous manner.
Three years ago, just as director Michael Grandage's career was going into orbit thanks to his stewardship of the Donmar Warehouse and his much-feted production of Schiller's Don Carlos at Sheffield's Crucible Theater, Really Useful Group chief executive Andre Ptaszynski approached him about re-imagining Evita. Grandage immediately discussed the project with his regular designer, Christopher Oram, and then met with Lloyd Webber.
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