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Everyone must have read how Tim Rice, driving in his car in 1973, heard a radio broadcast on Evita Peron and got a revelation that it would be a good idea to write a musical about her (he must have been on the road to Damascus one assumes!).
Of all the ideas in the world that would have seemed the screwiest; on a par with writing one about Herr Schicklegruber! (As Bernard Levin commented in his review). Well, I suppose he thought if Mel Brookes can get away with Springtime For Hitler/Anything Goes (sorry Tim! Cole Porter got there first) and it was a revelation after all.
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Philip Quast looks like Peron and carries off the part well; his subservience to Eva is believable whereas Joss Ackland, the original Peron, always seemed in command.
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