Casting Idea: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron
Casting Idea: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#1Casting Idea: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron
Posted: 6/11/09 at 4:13pm
I'm so terrified of being eaten for this, but I just want to know what your thoughts on this are.
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"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
Updated On: 6/11/09 at 04:13 PM
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#2re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron
Posted: 6/11/09 at 4:17pmShe has potential. I would really LOVE for there to be a revival soon with Haviland Stillwell as Eva. She would be perfection.
#2re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron
Posted: 6/11/09 at 4:22pm
She couldn't act the part to save her life. It's such a precious score, I hate it when some actresses ruin it with their screaming. No thanks. If we do get an EVITA revival, Elena Roger should play the part. If Equity won't allow it or the producers don't want her, I'd love to see Mandy Gonzales or Megan Sikora (if she can sing it) have a go at it.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#3re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 4:28pmAndAllThatJazz22: Could you put a question mark on your subject line? It makes it sound like you're making an announcement, not soliciting opinions.
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AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#4re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 4:42pmI can't give into you LizzieCurry... it's a reminder of how stupid I am.
"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#5re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 4:43pm
Karen Olivo? lol
She can act circles around Eden.
Updated On: 6/11/09 at 04:43 PM
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#6re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 4:48pm
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=965459#3548576
Well it looks like I'm not the first to say it.
"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#7re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 4:52pmljay, while I love Karen too, I don't think she could do Evita. I would love to hear her sing the part but I think the dancing might catch up to her.
#8re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 4:53pmEspinosa auditioned for Michael Grandage's West End revival a few years ago.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#9re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 4:53pm
I was gonna mention Karen Olivo because she would be fierce but I'm not sure if she could sing the role as written or sing the role 6x a week. If she could, God I'd love to see her do it. Her acting in the part would probably be brilliant, and yes, she could do it justice in ways that Eden Espinosa could only dream about.
EDIT: The dancing might catch up to her? I didn't realize Patti LuPone, Elane Page, Alice Ripley, and Julia Murney were all formal dancers. Karen isn't a dancer by any means, but she can most certainly do the Rob Ashford choreography.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Updated On: 6/11/09 at 04:53 PM
Josh Freilich
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/06
#10re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 5:02pmI third Karen Olivo.
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Rentaholic
Chorus Member Joined: 3/14/04
#11re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 5:21pm
No. Eden Espinosa sounds like a screeching cat and can't act for her life.
"Karen Olivo? lol"
No, because the role of Eva requires a good singer, actress, and dancer. Karen is none of these things.
#12re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 5:23pmShe is a great singer, a phenomenal actress, and a good dancer, just not spectacular. But if she could do it, go for it! I'd love it. But to say she is none of those things is absurd and you know it.
#13re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 5:26pm
I'll take any... ANY... revival of this sublime score. ALW's masterpiece, if he ever had one.
The tour with The Diva Toro and Raul Esparza was lame but they were very good.
Mandy Gonzalez and Max Von Essen are my choices for the leads. (and not just because it would be a DOTV reunion, because they both have what it takes for those difficult roles).
Will Swenson or Aaron Lazar would be inspired choices for Che. Davin Burnham would be a great Che, too.
Ripley has always said its her dream role but... I'm not sure she could do it 6 times a week at this point.
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Updated On: 6/11/09 at 05:26 PM
Rentaholic
Chorus Member Joined: 3/14/04
#14re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 5:29pmSo, Pianolin, since she is "just not spectacular" why should I have to pay money to see a sub-par performer on Broadway? I expect excellence in the Broadway Theatre. Not Karen Olivo.
#15re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 5:30pmYou can go kiss her Tony award winning ass.
#16re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 5:31pmYou didn't say that. She is a good dancer, and I liked her. However, you said she is not a good singer, not a good actress, and not a good dancer. She obviously won the Tony for a reason and it wasn't awarding her for the role either.
#17re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 5:32pm
Will Swenson would be a BRILLIANT Che! And I would love a revival-- I really like that show, and I was too young to appreciate it when I first saw it.
I've never heard an Evita Peron who I've... actually liked. I guess I have my own mental image of what a 'good' version of the role would be. Weirdly, I've always thought my chorus teacher would be the closest to my ideal Evita, but this is six years after I was first exposed to the show, so who knows.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#18re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 5:44pmI'm still confused by Rentaolic's ridiculous comments about Evita being so kind of a landmark for triple threats, esp. in the dancing department. I had no idea that Patti LuPone was a fantastic dancer, or that Elane Page's dancing was the best of her time, or that more recent Evitas like Alice Ripley or Julia Murney were dancers of any kind? Karen Olivo has danced more in her career than LuPone, Page, Ripley, or Murney all who played the role at one point or another, and one of them to Tony-winning effect. So your comment made absolutely no sense. Karen is one of the best musical theater actresses of her generation, and I suspect this won't be her last Tony win. So as Ljay said and to quote Alice Ripley, you can kiss her sweet (and very sexy) ass.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#19re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 5:44pmShe was, as memory serves, offered the alternate Eva, but she was just finishing her turn in Wicked as Idina's standby, and had closed out Brooklyn, and didn't want to be an alternate again.
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Mel089
Understudy Joined: 3/1/09
#20re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 5:50pm
no no NO
she might be a mexican immigrant but eva peron was an argentinean immigrant they are different things they just go to taco bell and speak spanish that is all
#21re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 5:54pmwtf
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blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#22re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 6:07pm???
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dg22894
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/08
#23re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 6:11pmI like the idea of Karen Olivio! Laura Benanti?
Mel089
Understudy Joined: 3/1/09
#24re: Eden Espinosa as Eva Peron?
Posted: 6/11/09 at 6:12pmlizziee the curry **** i mean like eden is a nasal screech with a monobrow
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