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If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cast?
Byron Abens
Broadway Star Joined: 7/17/08
#50re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/23/09 at 11:58pmNow the next question is how long will it take for somebody to see the title of this thread and start a new one about the "Planned Revival of Evita" that they heard about?
#51re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:00amRachel York gets my vote too (out of the ones listed)
#52re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:08amAlice Ripley would be god awful. Her high register is grating and not to mention her lack of sex appeal.
#53re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:09am
Okay, I changed my mind. This person should be Eva 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bee28totrGw
#54re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/24/09 at 12:19amRachel York would be fantastic. However a part of me would want Karen Olivo.
#55re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/24/09 at 5:34amOrfeh. Still Orfeh. Always Orfeh.
#56re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/24/09 at 5:38amDefinitely Orfeh as Eva Peron. She would knock that part out of the park!
#57re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/24/09 at 7:32amJulia Murney!!!!
Craww
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#58re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/24/09 at 8:04am
Forgetting the factor of age? Julia Murney can't properly sing the score. I say this as a Julia Murney fan, hoping people will stop mentioning her. Just for her own sake.
I still vote for an unknown. I think it should be a starmaking role, and something big would have to be compromised by trying to shoehorn a known Broadway actress into such a specific role.
Soliantu
Leading Actor Joined: 11/10/06
#59re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/24/09 at 9:31am
LizzieCurry I agree with your casting choices
I think Eden Espinoza is wrong for the part..
#60re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/24/09 at 10:32am
If Julie Murney is too old, so are Alice Ripley and Orfeh.
I would also prefer an unknown. Maybe even someone Hispanic or -dare I dream- actually Argentinian.
I can't believe people are claiming Karen Olivo is too dark to play Eva Person. I don't care if she was a real person, that's an overtly racist comment. Many, many real people have been played by caucasian actors that weren't precise physical matches and no one batted an eyelash. God help us if a minority be allowed to play a traditionally (though inappropriately) white role.
Wanting life but never knowing how
#61re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/24/09 at 11:44am
"God help us if a minority be allowed to play a traditionally (though inappropriately) white role."
Why inappropriatly? Evita WAS white. She was renowned for her alabaster skin. A lot of Argentineans are fair. So that's why caucasian actors have traditionally been cast in the role. Even Elena Roger is white.
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
#62re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/24/09 at 11:57am
#63re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/24/09 at 2:11pm
Gordon Brown for Peron:
"So annoying that we have to fight elections for our cause...
...the inconvenience, having to get a majority."
By the time this revival happens he'll be out of a job.
TheatreDork2
Leading Actor Joined: 7/21/09
#64re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/24/09 at 2:13pmYes, yes! Handler for Eva!
#65re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/24/09 at 2:39pm
Eva and Che!!!
#66re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/24/09 at 5:01pmOrfeh isn't "too old" for Eva at all. And Ripley looks MUCH older than Orfeh does, especially up-close. Olivo, IMO, would just be miscast for other reasons, not her age.
Craww
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#67re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/24/09 at 11:57pm
LOL. Ripley looks more mature than Orfeh, but she doesn't look older.
Orfeh looks like the prototypical cougar. I can't decide if she looks way older than she is or way younger than she is, because she's not the kind of woman I trust to tell me the truth about their age.
I don't think either of them are appropriate for it vocally, but I can't speak to that with as much certitude as I could for Julia. I only singled Julia Murney out before because I've actually seen her in the role and have an entirely educated perspective to judge from.
#68re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/25/09 at 12:02amUm, Orfeh IS too old. She's 42. She couldn't possibly be convincing in the first act of Evita where Eva goes from 15-26. "Waltz for Eva and Che" would look like a musical episode of "Cougartown."
#69re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/25/09 at 12:09am
I don't see how it's racist for somebody to say a person playing a historical figure should LOOK LIKE the real person.
If somebody, said Raul Esparza shouldn't play Malcolm X or Patti Lupone shouldn't play Harriet Tubman, that wouldn't be racist either. It would just be... factual.
#70re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/25/09 at 12:28am
I'm putting my vote in for Lauren Kennedy.
As for the other question, it's considered "racist" to suggest that anyone non white couldn't play the role of a white person whereas suggesting Beyonce should play Nancy Reagan is perfectly acceptable, albeit ridiculous.
#71re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/25/09 at 12:39am
Beyonce should play Nancy Reagan is perfectly acceptable, albeit ridiculous.
that's the worst thing I've ever read in my life.
#72re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/25/09 at 12:43amYou racist.
#73re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/25/09 at 12:43am
I don't know that Nancy Reagan is Sasha Fierce enough to be played by Beyonce...
She'll have to settle for Ciara playing her.
#74re: If Evita came back to Broadway (which it probably is) who would you cas
Posted: 7/25/09 at 12:44amif by racist you mean Reaganist, then yes.
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