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Our critic Mark Shenton is captivated by the return of Andrew Lloyd Webber's best musical, this time starring an authentic Argentinian actress in the title role...
Evita is the musical that in 1978 launched Britain's global assault on the form that continued for all of the next decade, providing a template for such successes as Les Misérables and The Phantom of the Opera.
All of them were contemporary pop operas that dared to tell their lush, epic stories entirely through song and in spectacular physical productions.
Evita ran in the West End for 8 years, but has not been seen here since it closed in 1986. Now, at last, it is back, in a spectacularly re-imagined new production that throws new light - in every sense - on the darkness at its centre.
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