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‘My heart is pounding’: experiencing Rachel Zegler’s Evita balcony scene from the humble pavement
Paying theatregoers have bemoaned watching Don’t Cry For Me Argentina on livestream while passersby experience it live for free. But is it a seven-minute stunt worth waiting for?
A few moments later the song’s intro piped over the speakers – its familiar melody sung out by strings – and Zegler glided across to the centre of the balcony with a blond updo and huge diamond clusters glittering from her neck and ears. But you felt a sense of Eva Perón’s egoism and manipulation as the diva gestures – the regal wave, the arms to the sky – took over and Game of Thrones lovers may have found themselves having Daenerys Targaryen flashbacks. Hundreds gather to watch the seven-minute song, which is livestreamed on to a screen for the audience in the theatre Photograph: Ian West/PABy the end she was turning away from us to secure her closeup, proclaiming “Every word is true” even as flutes trilled laughingly in the background.
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