The lavish production features a multiethnic cast, Latin dancing and some song lyrics translated from English
During a pre-curtain speech for Cygnet Theatre’s “Evita” on Saturday, artistic director Sean Murray told the opening-night audience he’s been wanting to direct the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical since 1978.
It was the first time I’ve seen the show done with an entirely multi-ethnic cast, the first time I’ve heard many of the lyrics sung in a language other than English and the first time I’ve seen the powerlessness of women in Eva’s time portrayed so clearly.
In “Evita,” the wily Eva Duarte sleeps and schemes her way from small-town poverty and illegitimacy to bejeweled first lady of Argentina. But Murray’s production shows how sex, smarts and self-promotion were then a woman’s only path to power. In an election day scene, only the men approaching the ballot box are allowed to drop in a ballot card.
Berto Fernándes, who in February earned an Actor of the Year award for his versatility in five local shows last year, continues to show his range as Juan Peron. He sings his role with operatic bravado but plays Peron as lonely, brooding and weak-willed. Big-voiced Matthew Malecki Martinez delivers an amusing performance as Eva’s first love, tango singer Magaldi. And Vanessa Orozco, as Peron’s discarded mistress, gives a lovely vocal performance of “Another Suitcase in Another Hall.
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