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I am a touch ashamed to admit I have fallen head over heels for Evita again, with Michael Grandage's dynamic production offering a charismatic titlerole performance, ripe for superlatives, by unknown Argentinian Elena Roger.
When Evita premiered 25 years ago I was caught in its emotional fall-out and overwhelmed against my better, politically motivated judgment.
After all, Evita celebrates celebrity in the shape of a good-time girl married to President Juan Peron, who was eventually the workers' ally, but began in the government of a pro-Hitler military dictatorship.
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.Once Eva sets her cap, dress and all on Peron, who remains a politically vacant, half-baked character, despite Philip Quast's impressive voice, she turns blonde and graceful.
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