Rachel Zegler singing “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina”

I thought she was cancelled

Is Gal Gadot playing Che?

Is that the Fort Lee HS spring music festival?

Needs more spine

"OMG. This lady was a real person???"

She would probably not be able to place Argentina on the map.

Has Patti commented yet?

Pretty but needs a full on Patti-like belt.

She's endorsing fascism, spread the word.

¡Fascita!

Eva Peron was a white supremacist coloniser!

Ar—hen—tina!

Paying Evita audience upset as Don’t Cry delivered offstage to West End passersby for free….

All I see is a giant forehead.

I saw those earrings on Miss Universe— …1987

This is a kindler, gentler eva

I don’t like the pauses. Not the way the composer intended! My Latin friend thinks so too

The keys are all wrung.

They need to figure out how to give that number more life.

Her voice is absolutely beautiful. But it’s feeling slow to me. You have to sell that song, and if you are just going to stand there at the balcony without much movement, I think there needs to be more expression in the voice to pull us in.

The song can’t just be pretty, because we already know it and the novelty is gone. You need to sell it, honey.

Wouldn´t it be funny if she looks down into the crowd and sees this?

She looks horrible as a blonde.

[quote] The song can’t just be pretty, because we already know it and the novelty is gone. You need to sell it, honey.

Audra, you may think that, but we're telling you: that approach just didn't work out so well for you.

I'm happy to try.

So explain to me why they’re having an actress/singer with the gravitas of a Twinkie playing the part of the political Diva-Bad-Bitch Perron?

Jamie Lloyd is same old same old, now.

Does these young dumb cunts know that Peron was a nasty cunt as well? Or do they think they are playing some kind of princess?

Bitch had the opportunities of a lifetime. Two major releases. As Spielberg film remake of Westside Story. Fucking Disney’s Snow White. Trash. 😂. Learn to keep that mouth shut.

Bad set design for the balcony scene. The Casa Rosada is pink.

R28 she performs it each night outside of the theater on the theater balcony. A camera projects it inside, as passers by gather round and watch her.

Given her political babble... I hope she can hold a note and duck at the same time, because these days, anything seems fair game. And that's before Disney gets its revenge for Snow White.

R30 fuck off freak.

Sounds like a cat wailing.

R24 = Ariana De Bose

[quote] Jamie Lloyd is same old same old, now.

He’ll tattoo his eyeballs then get the great idea of setting Phantom Of The Opera’s lair in a sewer.

[quote]Does these young dumb cunts know that Peron was a nasty cunt as well? Or do they think they are playing some kind of princess?

Yes, Eva and Juan Peron destroyed the middle class, which she hated for personal reasons.

Argentina was super rich and a world power when he was elected president in 1946 but was bankrupt and irrelevant by the early 1950s, after years of their excessive spending and mismanagement.

It has never recovered over 70 years later. They're always having some financial crisis.

That's why when Eva dies, Che laments, "It's our funeral, too!"

Eva is the villain in the piece which Che tries to warn us about throughout the show.

Screw the middle classes! I will never accept them. And they will never deny me anything again. My father's other family were middle class. And we were kept out of sight, hidden from view at his funeral.

Argentina was never a superpower LOL

Fuck you too, R31. Get an anger class.

R37, it was an economic powerhouse at one time. The Perons killed it

Can someone explain WTF the song even means??

That’s not what superpower means …

R37/R41 it was on its way to becoming a superpower post-WW2 (like the US).

What's new, Buenos Aires? Your nation, which a few years ago had the second-largest gold reserves in the world, is bankrupt. A country which grew up and grew rich on beef is rationing it. La Prensa, one of the few newspapers which dares to oppose Peronism, has been silenced -- and so have all other reasonable voices! I'll tell you what's new, Buenos Aires!

They did like to take that Nazi money

R38 get not being a retard classes.

R42 types crazy —with what? It was useless in WWII, and suddenly it would be a military giant? You can stop now.

Not a military giant. Who's claiming that?

It was on its way to being an economic superpower

Superpower is a military term ignatz.

In no universe has anyone included Argentina in the definition of superpower. Don’t play the fool.

No it wasn’t a military, political, or economic superpower. The Argies had beef and wheat in a world short of both thanks to WW II, getting top dollar for a couple of years. They had no industries. It was over before Eva was. They didn’t have oil, for starters. Argentina didn’t build ships, didn’t have a steel mill, didn’t make autos, didn’t even have electricity in most of the country or even make their own guns. Franco had to lend Eva the plane for her Rainbow Tour. The guns had to be imported, one of the things that hastened Eva’s end and disgraced Prince Bernhardt when his role selling them was exposed.

Argentina remained neutral for most of WW2 (despite pressure from the US to join the Allies) but at the last minute in 1945 declared war on the Axis Powers, who at that stage were already defeated, so they never saw combat.

This was the time in which the US was overtaking the UK in terms of political and economic hegemony. Argentina had not yet adjusted to the new situation and defied the US by not joining the side of the Allies when the US entered the conflict in full force after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

IOW, not a superpower. Thank you.

At any rate, Argentina was very rich when the Perons rose to power and was bankrupt by the time Eva died during Juan's second term.

Barbra Streisand refused to sign Don't Cry For Me Argentina because "the woman was a fascist!"

Lana Del Rey sung a cover of You Must Love Me for a compilation, as Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of her biggest influences.

[quote]Can someone explain WTF the song even means??

It is meant to be bullshit populist rhetoric, R40. Tim Rice is still baffled that people take it seriously. Zegler's failure to eyeball her audience shows she doesn't understand it yet either. Elaine Paige delivered it with maximum "I am a river to my people" rizz, and then when she turned, apparently distraught, to Peron for comfort in the middle, visibly cocked her ear for the response before coming back bigger than ever. She was the only performer I ever saw who "got" it. (She also realised that Eva's emphases in "Waltz for Eva and Che" were grunts of pain.)

Rice and Lloyd Webber should both have royalties deducted every time the song is played for the line "I kept my promise, don't keep your distance", which is lyrically, er, cryptic, and musically as banal as it gets.