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 in the bright lights 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 to the 20th century. Told through a compelling score that fuses haunting chorales with exuberant Latin, pop and jazz, EVITA creates an arresting theatrical portrait as complex as the woman herself.
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Bay Street Theater will offer its signature treatment of a large scale musical - an intimate experience in a thrust theater that allows the audience to get close to the iconic characters and dig deep into the world of and story of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s masterpiece. The classic score features some of Webber and Rice’s biggest hits, including “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina,” “High Flying, Adored” and “Another Suitcase in Another Hall.”
