Evita (City Center)

Bottomless Broadway

What’s new, Buenos Aires? Nothing much since Broadway is dark through 2021, but we’re here to talk about the new(est) Evita revival from City Center with a few tangents into insecticide, Isabel Peron, Attila the Hun, Lauren Bacall, and insecticide.

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If you’ve never listened to The Lady’s Got Potential, Patrick Flynn from The Original Cast podcast has a great primer: https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/13648631

For the record, Christine watched By Jeeves when it aired on The Shows Must Go On and rather enjoyed it.

Sir Tim Rice’s podcast: https://getontomycloud.podbean.com/

The Grass is Always Greener is a hilarious song from Woman of the Year performed by Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Cooper: https://youtu.be/aP7maJavkQE

The song from Smash is the Twentieth Century Fox Mambo (not Fox Trot), but this is how Christine imagines Rainbow High should be staged: https://youtu.be/sUbS8uWEj5c

Patti LuPone does not hold back when talking about President Trump (https://youtu.be/XwIrm3Kawkk), which is ironic considering that Evita is Trump's favorite musical (https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-loves-evita-presidency/story?id=59350378).

At the time of recording, Betty Buckley had just urged ALW to stop Trump from using Memory at rallies (https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Betty-Buckley-Calls-on-Andrew-Lloyd-Webber-to-Take-Legal-Action-Against-the-Trump-Campaign-For-Using-Memory-From-CATS-at-Rallies-20200621), but just recently we found out that ALW actually did (https://pagesix.com/2020/07/13/andrew-lloyd-webbers-team-sends-cease-and-desist-letter-to-donald-trump/).

You can watch Patti LuPone perform A New Argentina in a silk robe on the 1980 Tony Awards: https://youtu.be/F9m4SfNHWVg

If you want more about Evita, we recommend checking out Seth Rudetsky's deconstruction of Buenos Aires (https://youtu.be/59FSM9UT7NQ) or Scott Miller's in-depth analysis (http://www.newlinetheatre.com/evitachapter.html).

Some music used from City Center clips from Broadway.com (https://youtu.be/9UTmwFwZ3rk) and TheaterMania (https://youtu.be/MkzTthyQ1to), which also show some of the staging we talked about.

Original Concept Album
Apple Music: https://apple.co/2CCCWEo
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/32h266s

Original Broadway Cast Recording
Apple Music: https://apple.co/3iXIQRg
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2CykblC

Motion Picture Soundtrack
Apple Music: https://apple.co/3fBtlN2
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2ZuY7Bj

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