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It is exactly 28 years since Evita first opened in the West End, ushering in an era when for a dozen years or so, Britain effortlessly dominated musical theatre all over the world.
Such international hits as Cats, Phantom, Les Mis and Miss Saigon followed, making huge fortunes wherever they travelled, but Evita, with its sharp witty lyrics by Tim Rice and one of Andrew Lloyd Webber's finest, through-sung scores was the daddy of them all.
Not that it was greeted with universal approval. Bernard Levin described Evita as "one of the most disagreeable evenings I have ever spent in my life, in or out of the theatre".
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There's strong support from Philip Quast as her sinister husband and Matt Rawle as an unexpectedly likeable Che, while the ensemble is first rate.
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