evita

evita

Evita's musical series, written by Andrew loy Weber and timrice since 1974, is the second collaboration between the two since "superstar of all time.".

In 1976, the first record of the show was officially released, with Julie Covington as Eva Peron, Colm Wilkinson as chert and Paul Jones as Juan Peron. The record, along with its single issue song don't cry for me Argentina, soon became the best-selling record in many countries.

introduce

On June 21, 1978, the musical "Ivetta" was first performed at the Prince Edward theatre in London. This time, Elaine Paige is playing Eva Peron, David Essex is playing Cherokee, and Ross Ackland is playing Juan Peron. "Ivetta" has won many awards, including the more important west end theatre award in London (best musical of 1978, and Elaine Paige won the best musical actor award). On May 8 of the following year, American "Ivetta" also opened at Dorothy Chandler tent theater in Los Angeles, with Patti lupone as EVA Veron, Mandy Patinkin as chert and Bob Gunton as Juan Veron. After nine weeks, the show moved to the Orpheum theatre in San Francisco for seven weeks, and then went straight to Broadway in New York. In New York, the original London troupe's crew all gathered together, making "Ivetta" a hit on Broadway. It not only won a large number of awards in the musical world on Broadway in those years, but also became a permanent repertoire on Broadway in the next few years. Many touring troupes also brought "Ivetta" all over the world.

The above can be said to be a brief introduction to the history of Ivetta. And the story of the musical, in the following PLOT column also has a more detailed introduction, not to mention watching the movie "Ivetta" people will not be unfamiliar with it. So here, I think the introduction of EVA Veron will be more interesting. Especially after looking at this picture, I immediately understood why there were so many people against Madonna playing EVA in the movie. In fact, Madonna is a good actress, many people think her own experience is very similar to EVA's. However, as for the degree of similarity, it's up to you.

EVA's real name is Maria EVA Duarte. She was born on May 6, 1919 in La Union, a small village near Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her father's name is Juan Duarte She is the youngest of his five illegitimate children. When EVA was seven, her father died in a car accident. As a result, her mother was forced to leave the village and opened a small hotel in Junin, barely making a living. At the age of 15, EVA decided to go to Buenos Aires to become an actor. No one has conclusive evidence of how she went to Buenos Aires, but the more convincing statement is that agastin Magadi, a famous tango singer in Argentina at that time, took EVA to Buenos Aires. There, she first worked as an actor in a radio play, then in a movie. She met Juan Peron at a charity party on January 22, 1944, and soon they got married on October 21, 1945. She is Juan Peron's second wife.

With EVA's help, Juan Veron won Argentina's general election in 1946, and EVA, 27, became Argentina's first lady. Veron got 54% of the vote, which is not a big number, but there were as many as 20 candidates in that election, and the number of votes received by others could not be compared with Juan Veron. Veron's vote is mainly from descamisados, which is the working class. The original meaning of descamisados is "shirtless". EVA and Veron tried their best to win and continue the trust of these people, and because EVA is committed to the welfare of the poor, she has been marginalized by the rich and the middle class.

After her husband was elected, EVA was called "the most powerful woman in Argentina.". She is the Secretary of Argentina's Ministry of labor, and she is also in charge of the medical sector, thus successfully curbing the once rampant tuberculosis and dysentery in Argentina for the first time. She also started teaching religion in school. She also controlled several major newspapers in Argentina. She used them to promote her husband. Once someone published an article against Veron, the government would make it disappear. However, most of her time is devoted to doing good for the poor. She set up social welfare agencies to provide relief, housing and clothing to the poor.

Although she was not elected, she had more power than anyone else at that time. She asked peron to give women the right to vote, and then, when women could vote, she founded the peron women's party. With her popularity among women, the party soon won the support of the majority of women, and this party, in fact, is the party that is committed to helping Veron. In the 1952 general election, the Peronist women's party asked for a second term. In this election, EVA was also asked to run for vice president. However, even if her health allowed, the military at that time strongly opposed the proposal. The result of the election is that Veron was re elected, so many people say that the Argentines let her husband be elected president because of their love for EVA, because her veronian women's party made an indelible contribution in the election.

In 1951, EVA was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Her abdominal pain was so severe that she couldn't work. Many times, it was difficult to get up in the morning. Nevertheless, she attended the second inauguration of Veron. On the way to the ceremony venue, she stood on the iron frame and waved to the crowd. On that day, she wore quite thick fur to cover up her skinny condition.

On July 26, 1952, Eva Peron died at the age of 33. On hearing the news, the whole nation mourned in silence. They decided to build a tomb for EVA, but the tomb has not been completed because of the overthrow of Veron's government three years later and Veron's own escape from Argentina. The new government is extremely opposed to the Veron government. They think that if EVA's body remains in Argentina, it is the embodiment of Veron's spirit. So they buried her body in a small cemetery in Italy, and the tombstone was also engraved with a false name. But her body eventually returned to belon's hands. When he returned to Argentina to regain power, he brought EVA's body back to Argentina. Belon died at work, and their bodies were put together at the funeral. EVA's body is finally buried in her mother's home, and Duarte's home is in recoletta cemetery.

playwright

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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He was born in 1948 in a musical family in soskanshington, London, England. His father is a piano professor at the Royal Conservatory of music, his mother is a violinist, his grandfather is a tenor, and his younger brother is a famous cellist. His aunt is a dramatist. When he was 11 years old, his aunt took him into the theater for the first time. When he came home, he made a small model of the theater himself, which may be a harbinger of his future involvement in the theater. It is said that Weber could compose music at the age of seven, but his childhood ambition was to become a historian. He won a scholarship to Oxford University at the age of 16. The next year, he joined the school's Madeleine college. But I dropped out of school after only one year. When he was at school, he met Tim Rice and they began to work together. After leaving Oxford, they created the musical Joseph and the amazing technologist Dreamcoat based on the Bible. In 1968, it was first presented as an amateur performance in a London School. Later, it even appeared on the stage of the "west end", the capital of British commercial drama. It became a big hit and has been out of control ever since. Their cooperation is a perfect match. One is a composer and the other is a lyricist. Taking advantage of the victory, they once again borrowed the Biblical Theme to write "Jesus Christ Superstar", which was staged in New York in 1971 and won many Tony Awards. In 1973, the play was made into a film. In 1974, he collaborated with Alan ekburn, the most popular comedian in the English speaking world, to create "swear to Gilles". In 1976, he and Tim Rice created Evita, which is based on the life of Mrs. Veron of Argentina. This musical is considered by some serious drama experts as the most likely work for Weber to be handed down forever. Eileen Peggy, who will come to China to demonstrate Weber's musical with Weber, is famous for playing the leading role of Mrs. Piron. Ai Wei ta

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