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"EVITA" is based on the life of Eva Perón,
the second wife of Argentine dictator Juan Perón. It is a story of people whose lives were in politics,
but it is not a political story. It is a
Cinderella story about the astonishing life of a girl from the most mundane of
backgrounds who became one of the most powerful
women her country (and indeed Latin America) had ever seen, a woman
never content to be a mere ornament at the side of her husband, the
president. Her death of cancer in 1952
at the age of 33 ensured that she became a legend - it is unlikely that even
Eva Perón could have sustained her level of
popularity with her beloved "descamisados"
(the shirtless ones) had she lived. Perón himself lasted only a further three years in power
after her death, although he did make a brief comeback as president in 1973, a
remarkable achievement which sadly did little to solve
The Singers:
EVA PERÓN: Julie Covington
CHE:
C.T. Wilkinson
JUAN PERÓN: Paul Jones
MAGALDI: Tony Christie
MISTRESS: Barbara Dickson
DOLAN GETTA & SIDEKICK: Mike Smith & Mike d'Abo
EVA PERÓN FUND MANAGER: Christopher
Nell
OFFICERS, ARISTOCRATCS AND OTHER
MISCELLANEOUS PARTS: Brian Bryne, Mike d'Abo, Nicky
Hamilton, Jean Hawker, David Hemmings, Laura Manara, Christopher Neil, Mike Smith, David Hamilton Smith,
Stephanie de Sykes, Tim Rice, Larry Walker, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Roy Wood and
Terry Wood
THE SUPERSTAR CHOIR (under the
direction of Anthony Bowles):
Christopher Brooker, Brian Byrne, Jimmy
Cassidy, Demetrius Christopholus, Derek Damon, Jeni Evans, Jean Gilbert, Nicky Hamilton, Lorenza Johnson, Brenda Lawrence, Anna Macleod, Nelson
Perry, Myra Sands, Jeffrey Shankley, Alastair Smith, Jini Steele,
Larry Walker, Terry Wood
THE LONDON BOY SINGERS (under the
direction of Alan Doggett): Barry Abbotts, David Butler, Guy Claperton,
Roy Cullimore, Alex Fodor, Marc Harris, Edward Kingdon, Richard Knight, Richard Martin, Anthony McLoughlin, Kelvin Menon, John
Murray, Stuart Oliver, Andrew Painter, Andrew Prior, with Joanna Cheales, Jeanne Hammann, Keeley Harris, Nathalie Lagesse,
Johanna Morgan and Boonrat Ngam-Aksorn
CHOIR (under the direction of
Geoffrey Mitchell): Brian Ethridge, Peter Hall, Rosemary Hardy, Stewart Haslett,
Patricia Hooper, Joyce Jarvis, Peter Long, Geoffrey Mitchell, Lesley Reid and
Penelope Walmsley-
MUSIC: Andrew Lloyd Webber
LYRICS: Tim Rice
Featuring the London Philharmonic
Orchestra conducted by Anthony Bowles
ORCHESTRATIONS: Andrew Lloyd Webber
MUSICAL CO-ORDINATOR: Alan Doggett
RECORDING ENGINEER: David Hamilton
Smith
ASSISTANT ENGINEERS: Virtually all of the staff of Olympic
Studios, but in particular Jeremy Gee & Anton Matthews
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: David Land
RECORDING: (CD) MCAD2-11541
(disc 1)
01 A
Cinema in
02 Requiem For Evita
Oh What A Circus
03 On This Night of a Thousand Stars
Eva and Magaldi
Eva Beware of the City
04
05 Goodnight and Thank You
06 The Lady's Got Potential
07 Charity Concert
I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You
08 Another Suitcase in Another Hall
09 Dangerous Jade
10 A New
(disc 2)
01 On the Balcony of the Casa Rosada
Don't Cry for Me,
02 High Flying, Adored
03 Rainbow High
04 Rainbow Tour
05 The Actress Hasn't Learned The Lines (You'd Like to Hear)
07 Santa Evita
09 She
Is a Diamond
10 Dice are Rolling
Eva's Sonnet
11 Eva's Final Broadcast
12 Montage
13 Lament
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