EVITA
Synopsis
Argentina's controversial
First Lady is the subject of this dynamic musical masterpiece.
As an illegitimate fifteen year old, Eva escaped her dirt-poor
existence for the bright ights of Buenos Aires. Driven by ambition
and blessed with charisma, she was a starlet at twenty-two,
the president's mistress at twenty-four, First Lady at twenty-seven,
and dead at thirty-three. Eva Peron "saint to the working-class,
reviled by the aristocracy and mistrusted by the military"
was destined to leave a fascinating political legacy unique
in the 20th century. Told through a compelling score that fuses
haunting chorales with exuberant Latin, pop and jazz influences,
EVITA creates an arresting theatrical portrait as complex as
the woman herself.
