Elena Roger In Evita

It is Roger. ROGER.

No plural.

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Why we are at - do you think they will ever revive FUNNY GIRL or MAME? If so who do you think will play the lead?

But to answer your question alx - the production was rumoured for a transfer with Roger but it ended up not being a huge financial hit in London so those plans were aborted.

Roger was fantastic live in the role. Its a shame NYC wont see that performance.

You're not alone, Evie...I agree, and cant even listen to the recording.

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really? That's too bad. I've never had that problem.

I prefer my Eva's to carry a tune.

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Phyllis, check out the link I put up. Elena Roger is singing buenos aires and is doing a good job with the dance also :)

That EVITA revival recording is a litany of missteps from Matt Rawle's Che to the bastardization of the score to Elena's fo-net-tick pronunciations...

... I mean, they had the gall to cut the intro to "A New Argentina"?! Have they heard Ja Rule's sample of it on his song "Six Feet Underground" ("Dice are rolling..." is the chorus of that song) and felt that it was not necessary for this recording? UGH...

... I have rarely been as disappointed in a recording as I was in this. Why cast EVITA with an Eva and Che who can't sing the songs? And Quast was bizarre and wasted as Peron, and we don't even get his best part ("Dice are rolling," etc) on the recording!

The rumors (and reality (Gerard, etc.)) of ALW never wanting his scores to be overshadowed by the performers must really be true... at least he has had a change of heart with LOVE NEVER DIES: THE STORY CONTINUES: PHANTOM 2: ELECTRIC BUGALOO by casting Sierra and Ramin.

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Genre that rumour about ALW sounds awfully silly to me when you look at the singers who have appeared in his shows in NY and London over the years- some amazing voices

Elena Roger in Evita was the most monstrous, hideous, and brilliant performance I have seen onstage. 1 year in the role and she was brilliant, I don't know about at the start though.

Hmm genre - I definitely do not see that as a steady habit with Webber's stage productions. THE WOMAN IN WHITE for example, his last major show, was very well sung - though Webber does seem to have a penchant for singers with unique sounds (Sarah Brightman, Michael Crawford, Maria Friedman, Elaine Paige) that might not be to everyone's tastes.

In the case of the PHANTOM movie, Joel Schumacher wanted two young sexy leads. The movie had a pretty tight budget (as far as a movie that size goes) so major stars were out. When cast, Gerald Butler and Emmy Rossum were both actors who had just wrapped filming on two sizable film projects that hadn't yet been released. There was a lot of industry buzz on them. I think their casting was at least in part a gamble on the production teams part that they might be bigger marquis names by the time that PHANTOM opened than they ended up being. I think thats why you ended up with minor movie stars in those parts with somewhat weak singing voices.

The recent EVITA revival is just a bad cast recording. Odd cuts, bad sound and strident voices that sounded better live in the theatre.

"LOVE NEVER DIES: THE STORY CONTINUES: PHANTOM 2: ELECTRIC BUGALOO"

That just made my day.

I saw her in BOEING-BOEING and PIAF. She's a wonderfully versatile performer. Her Piaf was magnificent.

¨I saw her in BOEING-BOEING and PIAF. She's a wonderfully versatile performer. Her Piaf was magnificent¨

She was good in it, but lowering her range she sounded awful. Also the show was very poorly directed and the set was basically unexistant. I hated it!

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