Evita Tour

I am going to see the tour in Costa Mesa tomorrow and was wondering what people thought of the show. I did the search on the boards and things seemed to get a tad heated when it was brought up. I was looking for a new perspective. If anyone has seen it please tell me about it.

~shoes

wait, why did Bradley Dean leave the tour?

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Believe it or not, I saw him fall off the stage in Chicago. At the very beginning, he slid across the stage as he sang "instead of government, we had a stage, instead of ideas, a prima donna's rage..." Plop... right into the orchestra pit.
He was okay... but the audience was confused... Show REALLY needs updating... it's almost boring.

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when did you see it jonnyv?

I saw the show a long time locally and really liked it, i hope that it delivers. Our show choir is doing a medely for one of our shows and we are seeing it to get a feel for our characters and such.

Or even right here on BWW!

https://www.broadwayworld.com/showinfo.cfm?showid=412

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Keith Byron Kirk was AWESOME as Che. I didn't see Kathy in it though. I saw an understudy.

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Chicago... last year in November.

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The show is very hit or miss, and mostly serves as a "star vehicle" for the gal playing Eva. I saw Florence Lacey on the road, and thought she was amazing... but I found the musical to be fairly boring overall. It's hard to get involved with it, unless you're staring at the leading lady in total admiration of her talent. The character of Che, while fascinating, keeps pulling the audience OUT of the action. It ends up kinda like watching the plot unfold through a microscope.

I was also IN a production of "Evita" a long while ago, with Marin Mazzie as the lead. She was absolutely great, but the show is still as I described above... even from the OTHER side of the stage.

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