I love how this blatantly insinuates that Peron was a pedifile... Especially at the end... I also love Patti's scream after the second verse!! AHHH!!! Love that, the drama! The fainting lol! I also love when she slaps her guards!
My first Broadway show - I’d seen the Tony performance (“A New Argentina”) and begged my grandmother in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey (my father’s mother) to get tickets that coming Christmas. The two of us saw a December matinée - alas, with the understudies (albeit amazing) in the principal roles, they were not LuPone and Patinkin - but, notably, in addition to the show itself, there was the compensatory thrill of an intermission performance by the pit orchesra of Christmas Carols ingeniously arranged in the style of Evita, a wonder of innovative orchestration not heard by me since and, to my knowledge, not talked about anywhere since. (A piece of Broadway ephemera I can still hear, when I close my eyes, still aghast that most of the audience missed it by retreating to the lobby, or talking in their seats.) As for the staging, my grandmother was absolutely scandalized by the “revolving door” illustration of Evita’s supposed promiscuity, but I’m afraid to say, even at 15 years old that went above my head, I hardly noticed! So innocent was I... Thanks for posting this: great bridge-and-tunnel memories, the last gasp of a Broadway era eclisped by the tragic losses of the 80’s. But nevertheless - of course! - Evita shone through in the end, STILL shines through! How could Evita not have triumphed so, if it had been destined any other way?
Supposed promiscuity? Please! Eva, like most successful actresses back then, most definitely utilized the casting couch and had a string of influential lovers. How else could a poor, illegitimate, young girl with only a sixth grade education and no proper training rise so far and so fast in a patriarchy where women couldn't even vote? As many have recently learned, the casting couch is not a myth.
The same here! I, too, saw it when I was 15 and it was my first Broadway show! But I KNEW Eva was trying to sleep her way to the top because my French teacher in high school, who loved the movie, played the soundtrack for us one day (on LP of course!) and explained the premise of the play to us. That's why I wanted to see it! Not because of the promiscuity, but because I loved the music and I loved (and still love) history. My father took me. So how did your grandmother handle the young girls on Peron's lap in this number and how he grabs the one who tries to get away from him at the end? Now THAT went over MY head at the time. I saw it!
my family is Argentinean and my parents would tell me that their relatives from Buenos Aires would see Peron on motorcycle on the streets always accompanied by young girls
He also allowed both the male and female UES (high school student body made up of teenage Peronist party followers) members to use the facilities at the Presidential residence to do sports I guess so he could choose lovers from the group of teenage girls. One of his most well-known "girlfriends" after Evita died was 14-year-old Nelly Rivas when he was 58.🤢
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I love how this blatantly insinuates that Peron was a pedifile... Especially at the end... I also love Patti's scream after the second verse!! AHHH!!! Love that, the drama! The fainting lol! I also love when she slaps her guards!
Fun fact: Bob Gunton, who played Colonel Peron in this cast, also played the prison warden in "The Shawshank Redemption".
What a resonance LuPone and Patinkin had in their voices.😍
My first Broadway show ever! Amazing. I had no idea what I was witnessing.
I LOVE THIS PERFORMANCE
I love Mandy so much.
The best Ché
My first Broadway show - I’d seen the Tony performance (“A New Argentina”) and begged my grandmother in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey (my father’s mother) to get tickets that coming Christmas. The two of us saw a December matinée - alas, with the understudies (albeit amazing) in the principal roles, they were not LuPone and Patinkin - but, notably, in addition to the show itself, there was the compensatory thrill of an intermission performance by the pit orchesra of Christmas Carols ingeniously arranged in the style of Evita, a wonder of innovative orchestration not heard by me since and, to my knowledge, not talked about anywhere since. (A piece of Broadway ephemera I can still hear, when I close my eyes, still aghast that most of the audience missed it by retreating to the lobby, or talking in their seats.) As for the staging, my grandmother was absolutely scandalized by the “revolving door” illustration of Evita’s supposed promiscuity, but I’m afraid to say, even at 15 years old that went above my head, I hardly noticed! So innocent was I...
Thanks for posting this: great bridge-and-tunnel memories, the last gasp of a Broadway era eclisped by the tragic losses of the 80’s. But nevertheless - of course! - Evita shone through in the end, STILL shines through! How could Evita not have triumphed so, if it had been destined any other way?
Supposed promiscuity? Please! Eva, like most successful actresses back then, most definitely utilized the casting couch and had a string of influential lovers. How else could a poor, illegitimate, young girl with only a sixth grade education and no proper training rise so far and so fast in a patriarchy where women couldn't even vote? As many have recently learned, the casting couch is not a myth.
The same here! I, too, saw it when I was 15 and it was my first Broadway show! But I KNEW Eva was trying to sleep her way to the top because my French teacher in high school, who loved the movie, played the soundtrack for us one day (on LP of course!) and explained the premise of the play to us. That's why I wanted to see it! Not because of the promiscuity, but because I loved the music and I loved (and still love) history. My father took me. So how did your grandmother handle the young girls on Peron's lap in this number and how he grabs the one who tries to get away from him at the end? Now THAT went over MY head at the time. I saw it!
THANK YOU for posting this!!
Amazing! :)
Well, Peron did have a penchant for pubescent girls. His mistress before Eva was just 16, and the one after was around the same age.
my family is Argentinean and my parents would tell me that their relatives from Buenos Aires would see Peron on motorcycle on the streets always accompanied by young girls
He also allowed both the male and female UES (high school student body made up of teenage Peronist party followers) members to use the facilities at the Presidential residence to do sports I guess so he could choose lovers from the group of teenage girls. One of his most well-known "girlfriends" after Evita died was 14-year-old Nelly Rivas when he was 58.🤢
Love Lupone's vocals. Not a fan of the clownish staging, or the wacky voices that Che does. Glad those are gone in the revival.
Ricky Martin ruined the part of Che..
Oh I love everything and everyone in this