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What's new, Buenos Aires? Well, for starters, Eva Peron has turned from a legend into a woman.
Michael Grandage's thoughtful production, which opened this summer at the Adelphi Theatre to excellent reviews, does two major things: it steps out from the shadow of the original Hal Prince production and it introduces us to an Evita who is more flesh and blood than smoke and mirrors.
When the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical biography of the Argentinian spitfire first opened in 1978, it was acclaimed as a dazzling piece of showbiz artifice.
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Philip Quast makes Juan Peron a smooth operator who is smarter than anyone else he deals with — except his wife. His initial strength and final collapse are quite moving.
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