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Ignore the haters, Rachel Zegler is an absolute smash in Evita

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Written in 1976 — after the pop-religious romps about Joseph and Jesus with Rice, and before the imperial phase of Cats and Phantom — Evita may be Lloyd Webber’s most fully realised work. The juxtaposition of sacred music and tango, the way songs and themes loop and flower throughout the score, particularly Don’t Cry For Me and Oh What a Circus, is elegant and beautiful. Another Suitcase in Another Hall, sung by the mistress whom Eva has supplanted, sees the composer and lyricist at their melodious, bittersweet best. Rainbow High, given full welly by Zegler, is a banger.

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