{"id":1971236,"date":"2025-08-20T22:16:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1971236"},"modified":"2025-08-20T22:16:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:16:02","slug":"rachel-zeglers-breathtaking-in-evita-that-should-come-to-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rachel-zeglers-breathtaking-in-evita-that-should-come-to-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Zegler&#8217;s breathtaking in &#8216;Evita&#8217; that should come to Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F08%2F109842051.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--review alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n\t\t<span class=\"inline-module--review__eyebrow subsection-heading-semi__label\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tTheater review\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"inline-module--review__title 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It takes place on the balcony outside the London Palladium during \u201cEvita.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The unbelievable Rachel Zegler, as Eva Per\u00f3n, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/18\/entertainment\/rachel-zegler-faces-backlash-from-west-end-fans-over-evita-musical\/\">leaves the venue<\/a> for some fresh air and sings \u201cDon\u2019t Cry For Me Argentina\u201d to hundreds of gathered freeloaders below on Argyll Street, while the paying audience inside watches a video feed.<\/p>\n<p>Far from feeling cheated, however, on the night I went, the theater burst into cheers as the camera panned across the rapt masses.<\/p>\n<p>Many theater fans reflexively bristle at screens. And, granted, there are plenty of pointless projections out there. But this move is far from a gimmick.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The dense crowd shrewdly transforms into the working-class \u201c<em>descamisados<\/em>,\u201d the populist force that thrust Evita\u2019s husband, Juan Per\u00f3n, to presidential power in 1940s Argentina.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--columnist inline-module--more--thirds\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading subsection-heading subsection-heading--single-line \">\n\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"subsection-heading__sub\">Johnny Oleksinski<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>And director Jamie Lloyd finds a clever way to create a nearly real rally. Striking and unforgettable, it is an ingenious flourish.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This bracing revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice\u2019s \u201cEvita,\u201d the best and liveliest in ages, is packed full of them.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>A controversial video performance of \u201cDon\u2019t Cry For Me Argentina\u201d is stunning to behold. <span class=\"credit\">Marc Brenner<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fresh off the fabulous <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/20\/entertainment\/sunset-boulevard-review-nicole-scherzinger-stuns-in-scorching-brilliant-broadway-revival\/\">\u201cSunset Boulevard\u201d on Broadway<\/a> with Nicole Scherzinger, auteur Lloyd and popular Lloyd Webber continue their weird, winning partnership. And, yes, there are clear similarities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reality and history are again shown the door. The sexy modern outfits are back off the rack. As is the stripping of scenery, and later, clothes. Obviously, an actor embarks on another live-streamed adventure.<\/p>\n<p>Despite an overlap of signature style, though, their atmospheres couldn\u2019t be more opposite \u2014 from luxe horror to arena tour. There\u2019s a lot that\u2019s new, Buenos Aires.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If that screen-heavy \u201cSunset\u201d depicted fading Hollywood star Norma Desmond\u2019s life as one grand, delusional movie, dance-driven \u201cEvita\u201d makes Eva\u2019s fleeting, high-flying existence into a speaker-busting pop concert.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Rachel Zegler makes a breathtaking Evita. <span class=\"credit\">Marc Brenner<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The divisive Argentine first lady \u2014 who, in a flash, goes from a poor child from the sticks to glam actress to the most influential woman in South America \u2014 is depicted as a worshipped chart-topper who, after dying young at 33, just won\u2019t leave us.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For Lloyd\u2019s vision, you can\u2019t do better than Gen. Z star Zegler. With \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/03\/19\/entertainment\/snow-white-review-one-more-boring-mediocre-live-action-disney-retread\/\">Snow White<\/a>\u201d miles in the rearview, she makes a phenomenal and especially calculating Evita. Her resolute climber is obsessed with escaping her low-class upbringing, and her mean pursuit of power is as two-faced as it gets.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, when she\u2019s al fresco on the balcony, Zegler dons the familiar white gown and blonde wig, and soothes listeners like a sweet songbird.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Back in the Palladium, the warm facade fades. The actress whips off the hairpiece, wears a black bra-top and lace-up boots and holds a mic as though she\u2019s Madonna on the Blonde Ambition Tour. What a manipulative material girl she is.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">Marc Brenner<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Welcome to Eva\u2019s Ambition Tour. Leading the chants for her husband\u2019s political campaign in \u201cA New Argentina,\u201d her inside voice is a savage belt. And I have never heard the fiendishly difficult makeover number \u201cRainbow High\u201d sung better.<\/p>\n<p>Many of Lloyd Webber\u2019s tunes, and this is among the composer\u2019s finest scores, are more hot-blooded than they\u2019ve ever been thanks to Zegler\u2019s cords of steel and choreographer Fabian Aloise\u2019s sharp, animated dances that aren\u2019t the typical tempered tangos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aloise, who really should be billed as co-director, contorts an amiably catchy exposition song, \u201cRainbow Tour,\u201d into a pumped-up showstopper with dabbing and cheerleader knee raises. \u201cAnd the Money Kept Rolling In\u201d rolls faster and as sleek as a Bugatti.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The choreo and, indeed, the show are angry, party hearty, impolite and very loud.<\/p>\n<p>Expressive and in control, Zegler completely about-faces from last season\u2019s lacking \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/24\/entertainment\/romeo-juliet-review-kit-connor-shines-in-hollow-broadway-show\/\">Romeo + Juliet<\/a>.\u201d A musical-theater revelation, though she is, there are draws beyond Eva.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Diego Rodriguez, Rachel Zegler and James Olivas star in \u201cEvita.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Marc Brenner<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The exciting Diego Andres Rodriguez, who was Artie in \u201cSunset,\u201d seizes the stage as Che, the activist narrator who blasts Eva and the Per\u00f3nism movement for screwing the people even as she basks in their love.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Beguiling, he strays from Che\u2019s old revolutionary road and instead embodies a contemporary protestor with meme appeal and youthful angst. The American actor is pure pipes, and Zegler\u2019s perfect opponent.<\/p>\n<p>The tall tip of their not-quite-love triangle is James Olivas\u2019 regal Per\u00f3n. He\u2019s more photogenic than the common casting choices for the part, and his magazine-readiness clicks for 21st-century eyes. He\u2019s electable \u2014 think Justin Trudeau \u2014 and for hungry Eva, easy to puppeteer.<\/p>\n<p>When Per\u00f3n\u2019s wife becomes sick with cancer, the couple\u2019s battle for dominance gives way to falsetto hurt and behind-closed-doors weakness. In the end, as Evita crumples during \u201cYou Must Love Me,\u201d Zegler and Olivas hit much harder than I initially thought they could.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Olivas plays Per\u00f3n. <span class=\"credit\">Marc Brenner<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The one character our hearts go out to, though, is Per\u00f3n\u2019s poor mistreated mistress, tenderly played by Bella Brown in a \u201cFifth Element\u201d wig. She sings a lovely and vulnerable \u201cAnother Suitcase in Another Hall\u201d before she\u2019s kicked to the curb by the new lady of the house.<\/p>\n<p>Her outpouring of pain is part of a revival that\u2019s majority addictive pleasure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some will grumble that the storytelling isn\u2019t beat-for-beat simple to follow. It\u2019s not literal, that\u2019s for sure. The set is a staircase with the word \u201cEVITA\u201d illuminated behind it. But the abstraction gels with Lloyd Webber and Rice\u2019s 1976 thematic telling, in which Eva Per\u00f3n\u2019s whirlwind of a life isn\u2019t an easy one to grasp. She\u2019s loved and loathed; relatable and revolting. <\/p>\n<p>As with Evita herself, viewers will certainly take extreme stances on Lloyd\u2019s latest revamp. After all, you can\u2019t spell inevitable without \u201cEvita.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cEvita\u201d should come to Broadway pronto. <span class=\"credit\">Marc Brenner<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So what happens now? \u201cEvita\u201d should come right to Broadway. Pronto. The reported tiffs among the creative team are a counterproductive distraction. The show marks a huge improvement from director Michael Grandage\u2019s wearisome revival with Ricky Martin. And Broadway could use the jolt \u2014 one that\u2019s both crowd-pleasing and thought-provoking.<\/p>\n<p>Some tightenings and tweaks are needed, particularly reining in lounge singer Magaldi as a hammy comedy routine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But as ravenous Evita sings: I don\u2019t really think I need the reasons why I won\u2019t succeed \u2014 I haven\u2019t started.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theater review EVITA At the Palladium in London, England. LONDON \u2014 One of the most controversial sights on any professional stage right now isn\u2019t even happening on the stage, per se. 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