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Twenty eight years to the very day after its premiere on June 21, 1978, a new Evita has stormed the West End and created a new star in the tiny, bird-like, red-headed shape of Elena Rogers, an unknown Argentinian singer who slipped in and out of London unnoticed a couple of years back in a tango dance show.
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Similarly, Philip Quast, as the mountainous Juan Peron, is a much more subtle piece of acting than we had from the first two British dictators (Joss Ackland and John Turner), and there are notable vignettes from Gary Milner as the night-club singer Magaldi ('On This Night Of A Thousand Stars') and Lorna Want as Peron's ejected mistress, beautifully intoning one of the show's best songs, 'Another Suitcase In Another Hall,' which Madonna pointlessly commandeered in the film.
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