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EVA Perón once allegedly said: “I will return and I will be millions.” So here we are again, 24 years after I saw the lovely, late Stephanie Lawrence bringing Eva Perón to life at the Adelphi theatre.
Evita is showing its age – some of the songs are very 70s with naïve, old-fashioned chords.
Still, director Michael Grandage has put together a satisfying night.
I remember being completely beguiled by Eva Perón’s story, first through Julie Covington’s Eva on the original “concept album” then in the opening hype watching an extraordinary documentary on Eva’s disappearing corpse.
She died aged only 33 in 1952 but she and her husband, Juan, ruled and plundered Argentina with a potent mix of brutality and celebrity.
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Philip Quast’s hulking Perón and Matt Rawle’s Ché were also good.
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