Evita charts the young and ambitious Eva Peron’s meteoric rise to sainthood. Set in Argentina between 1934-1952, the Tony-winning musical follows Eva Duarte on her journey from poor illegitimate child to ambitious actress to, as wife of military leader-turned-president Juan Peron, the most powerful woman in Latin America, before her death from cancer at age 33.

 

Written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and including the smash hit “Don’t Cry for me Argentina” Evita has been performed all over the world, and made into a major 1996 film adaptation starred Madonna in the title role and Antonio Banderas as Che.