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When Elena Roger appears as glamorous Eva Peron on the balcony of the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires, she is preparing to sing one of the most famous songs ever written. It is an image that left a huge impression on those who saw it in the original West End production and now musical theatre history is being made 28 years on with this much-anticipated revival.
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s final collaboration was so different in style and context to anything the composer or lyricist had written before and yet it ran for seven years at the Prince Edward Theatre. It will be fascinating to see what fans of the previous production make of Michael Grandage’s new staging.
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Hardly off the stage for a minute, Matt Rawle is outstanding, making the role his own. As Peron, Philip Quast too impresses, allowing the audience to see a weakness of character so apparently absent from his ever precious wife.
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