Don’t Cry for Rachel Zegler, Argentina
Zegler will play Eva Perón in the West End production of Jamie Lloyd’s Evita.
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It’s a “West End story.” Rachel Zegler will play Eva Perón in Evita on London’s West End, in a production directed by Jamie Lloyd (Sunset Blvd.), per a Deadline report. Of Zegler, Lloyd told Deadline that he was “struck by her incredible passion for this show,” and that she will “blow the roof off the London Palladium.” Zegler joins the production amid her contentious press tour for Snow White (very Eva Perón of her to make career moves amid a controversy) and following a mega-lucrative run on Broadway in Romeo & Juliet, which claimed “the youngest ticket-buying audience” in Broadway’s history, per a press release. Following that run, Deadline is reporting that she will be “one of the highest-paid stars” on the West End this season. “Evita has been such an important musical to me since I was a little girl, when my dad and I would sing ‘Don’t Cry for Me Argentina’ together on my back patio,” Zegler said in a statement. “The opportunity to bring Jamie Lloyd’s singular, visionary ideas to life onstage is an honour unlike any other.” Notice how she used the “u,” because she’ll be in London. How clever!
Original reports contended that this production of Evita would actually star Zegler’s West Side Story co-star, and Oscar winner, Ariana DeBose. However, Variety reported on January 29 that she would not be in the production. Was DeBose deposed? Not really, reports say the plan didn’t work out due to scheduling conflicts with DeBose’s upcoming Prime Video show Scarpetta. Evita opens at the London Palladium on June 14 and runs through September 6. You wanna know what you’re gonna get in her? Wait for the summer.
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