EVITA National Tour Begins Performances 2/1 at Warner Theatre
By: Tyler Peterson
The Warner Stage Company's Main Stage Musical Season continues on Feb 1 with the opening night of EVITA.
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 for 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.
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's EVITA charts the rags-to-riches rise of the First Lady of Argentina, Eva Peron (played by Arianne DeCerb), who won the love of her countrymen after marrying military leader-turned-president Juan Peron (Tim Reilly). Set in Buenos Aires between 1934-1952, the musical follows Eva Duarte Peron on her journey from fatherless child to ambitious actress to the most powerful woman in Latin America-and, eventually, to a saint-like figure after her death from cancer at age 33. The events in Evita's life are presented in song and editorialized on by the show's narrator, Che (John Farias).Videos