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‘Evita’ Review: Rachel Zegler Brings Thrilling Vocals to Jamie Lloyd’s Flashy but Empty Revival
'Evita' is exciting and sharply executed, and Rachel Zegler's vocal performance is thrilling. But the storytelling gets flattened.
He ultimately strips down to briefs (black, natch) so that two men can murder him by pouring buckets of blue, white and red paint over his gleaming body — the colours of Peron’s political party and the aforementioned blood. Step forward deputy stage manager Jo Dunne calling the literally hundreds — possibly thousands — of cues demanded by Jon Clark’s incandescent, show-defining lighting. That gives way to scalding down-lighting, dazzling banks of brightness and pulse-quickening chases, thrillingly meshed to the score played by Alan Williams’ razor-sharp, roof-raising, 18-piece band via Adam Fisher’s sound design (which is less good on detailing the lyrics).
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