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The lady is back, and better than ever. Michael Grandage's thirtieth-anniversary revival of the groundbreaking Rice-Webber musical about Eva Peron is in almost every way superior to the original.
Put another way, the production is so good it actually makes the show seem good.
The original production, staged by Harold Prince at the peak of his grand-scale period, was flashy and exciting, filled with visual images and inventive direction that stick in the mind three decades later. But it was soulless, overpowering the performers and reducing them to mannequins.
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The role of Peron is a pretty thankless one, but Philip Quast gives him subtle touches of uncertainty and insecurity that humanise him as well.
