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# Rachel Zegler Debuts as Evita
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/rachel-zegler-debuts-as-evita-07-2025/
- Published: 2025-07-02T14:00:32.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-02T01:11:21.000Z
- Description: Olivier Award, here she comes?
- Author: Heather
- Tags: fugs, #wp, #wp-post, #hasslideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 08:29

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Fresh off his Tony-winning minimalist revival of *Sunset Blvd.*, Jamie Lloyd is launching a minimalist Evita in the West End, in which apparently Rachel Zegler spends MOST of the show in a bra but then goes full Eva Peron to perform "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina," on... the balcony outside the theater.(*Sunset* did a similar thing with the titular song.) There's a lot of debate about this: Given ticket prices, does it suck that the most famous song from the show isn't performed live in the room with the people who paid for tickets? Or is it a super effective commentary, especially as she enthralls the crowds outside as Evita would but then the people in the theater get behind the veil? Personally, I think both things can be true. It sorta sucks for the ticket-holders AND it might also work surprisingly well.

But I am also starting to think Jamie Lloyd is a one-trick pony and look forward to him motoring through the rest of Andrew Lloyd Webber's oeuvre. Joseph without his technicolor dreamcoat, because WHO NEEDS IT. *Cats*, but subtract the cats, they're beside the point. *Phantom of the Opera*, but he's not actually in it and neither is the theater and the "chandelier" is just someone throwing a wine glass off the roof outside. It's gonna be EPIC.

###### \[Photos: Dave Benett, Ming Yeung/Getty Images\]