Fresh out of college starting a new job for St. Paul Insurance. Our home office manager came to NYC to train me and took me to see this at the Broadway Theater. My first Broadway performance. Pattie was young, beautiful and heartwarming to see and hear. Now 70 I can still see myself enthralled. A wonderful memory.
Yes we were all young I was a sub . Back in the day they did not always say it was not Patti for fear of not selling enough tickets but I tried to make an impresstion. I love this musical Shanti Shanti Shanti
This was my first Broadway show & i returned a few weeks later with my Mother. It was her first & only Broadway show. She was 47 & cried throughout the whole show.
Just came from Washington DC to see the latest Evita revival, it was disappointing. Each time I see Evita again, I am only more convinced of the greatness of the original 1979 American LuPone version: the voice, the orchestration, the staging. That was the best Evita.
I have the honor to see the show wit P. Lupone and M. Patinkin I love it!!!!! great performance the famous Eva Peron is always in my mind and heart. I have seen almost all the great musical works and each one is very special great talents and music. Long live Broadway!
Can't thank you enough for putting this together! I'm so happy to be able to put faces/costumes with the voices I've been listening to all these years.
Wasn't this a beautiful production! A true homage to the genuine person of Eva Duarte de Perón, her life and times. The set and costumes are nothing short of spectacular, and I can appreciate why Patti Lupone is considered (by many) to be the ultimate 'Evita' performer. This is appealing, because so much attention has been given to make this a grand production, a real night out. So many performances of this show today lack the glamour of Evita as it's seen here.
I saw the original London Production, and even though this is mostly stills and probably different in hundreds of miniscule ways its giving me shivers and taking me back in time.
In the original Australian production Jennifer Murphy was cast as Eva Maria Duarte de Peron. Sadly she shot her voice 6 months into the run. Patti Lupone was asked to finish the remaining 3 months and she accepted. I was 18 yo and even at that young age I recognised “star quality “! In her memoir she writes that the only time she enjoyed playing Evita was here in Sydney. Patti Lupone us a ROCK STAR ⭐️
I saw that production. I was 17. It was my first Broadway show. I have not seen many of these photos. Thank you for assembling them. It was a very effective presentation.
I also saw it at 17 although at that point it wasn't my first Broadway show. Never forget it. I also was lucky enough to make it backstage and got to stand on the Balcony of the Casa Rosada as well as see all the behind the scenes stuff that was beyond interesting to a 17 year old. I also snuck into the theater during the day when when they were doing a rehearsal and watched the entire thing from the last row of the orchestra. Either nobody noticed me back there or nobody cared but I saw the entire rehearsal from around Magaldi's entrance to the end. They all wore their street clothing except for the new Evita who they were rehearsing. She went through all the costume changes.
I have seen the show with Terry, Klausner, Patti LuPone, Loni Ackerman, Florence, Lacey, Valerie Perry, Donna Marie Elio. This is one of the best Broadway shows ever.
The greatest musical of the 20th century. Period. And Alan Parker's 1996 film was a brilliant, epic, and masterful adaptation and should have swept the 1996 Oscars; there was unfortunate and thoroughly undeserved bias towards Madonna's performance. It was, in retrospect, one of the best films of the 1990's and one of Parker's greatest directorial achievements. Producer Robert Stigwood received the 1980 Tony Award for the original Broadway production.
I can be argued that Patinkin has the better voice, but I preferred Banderas in the film version. Pantinkin sings the lyric in the style of a ballad, too sweet and too legato. Banderas's style was more satirical and staccato which seemed more in keeping with the story and the style of music. Plus his accent was delicious and his diction perfect. It doesn't hurt that Antonio fills the bill as a swarthy hot Latin type whereas Mandy just looks scruffy. His voice was a good counterpoint to Madonna's. Lupone's voice is gorgeous but Im glad they had Madonna in the film. She played the hilt out of that role.
As a matter of fact, I have personally researched this a lot. Unfortunately, the result of I aways came up with is merely this: While I watched this production on Broadway and in some subsequent national tours, there was fine print in the Playbill mag that "the front cloth for Evita was "inspired" by the work of the Hispanic artist Jose Clemente Orozco." This to me suggests that one of the designers, O'brien or Firth, used the Orozco style of painting to formulate their own front cloth, which in the myriad productions I've seen on tour, always seem to make use of the "totem pole, political hierarchy" concept with "socialistic rays" emanating in all directions around it. Those rays originally were dual warm colors like orange and yellow, while other productions more recently used dual "white and Argentine blue" for the stripes. However, as time went by what was on the totem pole simply was left to other off-broadway designers. I've even tried researching if there was some repository of set pieces where one , on-line, could procure, the orginal- style curtain, for a private production of this show. Those results were few and the products, "tacky and far outside the scope of the orginal." Hope that helps.
I owe you my soul. I cannot thank you enough. 21 year old obsessed with this musical, and of course in turn obsessed with this cast. Edit: I have several questions. 1. Is that a mannequin replica of Patti in the coffin in Oh What a Circus? If so, wow! If not, and that's really Patti, even more wow(!), because how the heck did she get from that setup to her brown wig so quickly?! Regardless, Broadway magic never ceases to amaze. 2. At around 1:00:24, Eva raises her hand. Could you tell me where exactly she was gesturing or what the raised hand was for? Looks kinda like she may have been flipping Che the bird lol. Can't help but feel he slightly deserves it! 3. Did they really use all those photos/clips of the real Eva on the big screen? If so that must've added so much context for the audience. I've never seen that done in any modern/amateur production, even though it's now so easy to access these images online. Maybe the footage is copyrighted/requires licensing for use in profit that most can't afford? 4. Are those real tears at 1:35:20?! NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO CRITICISE PATTI LUPONE EVER AGAIN (jk) (not really) 5. Could you explain exactly what happened during Montage? Did they project the footage of the cast (from earlier in the show) upon the big screen, or was it once again a selection of images of the real Eva in her prime? Either way, were these images shown with Eva slumped beneath the screen? What a profound image. I have no words. They took her exhaustion and inability to live UP ⬆ to her own standards and made visual the fact she was FALLING ⬇ short, literally. Your exclusive use of colour photos is entirely immersive, not to mention your masterful audio engineering. I must commend you taking the time to find everything, and for including the TONY's A New Argentina. That performance (live) is arguably better than the recorded studio version. Special thanks also for the Rainbow High HD photos, I had never had a decent look at the hat before 1:05:28; and as well for the footage of the Waltz as seeing that black dress move was just mesmerising! I also was never quite sure whether Patti's Eva wore makeup to give her those dark circles around her eyes from Dice Are Rolling onward - it's a step most productions fail to take, after all the woman basically worked herself into exhaustion that likely aggravated her cancer. Seeing her collapse like that is heartbreakingly realistic, and at this point you can feel Eva withering away. The whole cast is amazing, but let's face it, Patti is the reason we're here and MY GOD she gives it everything she has and more. I am genuinely in tears. Like I said, NO EXCUSES to give Patti shit for being stuck up about Broadway. This is as close as I'll ever get to seeing her live and even I can see she DESERVES the platform she has. She earned it. You also earned my avid subscription, I look forward to seeing what you'll do in the future. Time to investigate the rest of your channel 🕵 P.S. Andrew Lloyd Webber, I am personally billing you for the €12.50 my eye drops are going to cost me. My eyes are raw from crying at this show - this is the third "production" I've watched in 2 days. Dammit.
🤩Wow, Evita-Luponephilia strikes again with someone other than me. Yes, she's flipping the guy off, but it was a political aristocrat she flipped, not Che boy. She did it in a way that was common in Latin America at the time I'm sure. It's kind of pushing your fist through your other hand very quickly making your whole arm stand "ERECT" with a slapping sound(instead of just a finger). With the fist as the "head" or more clinically the "glans penis." LOL And yes most of the footage and photographs of her are public domain, coming from newsreels of the time. I'm sure they had to pay a few royalties, though. As for the corpse, my best guess is that this IS Patti and it was done for publicity purposes ONLY with a still photo. She never had time to jump in the coffin. Ha ha. This coffin and Eva's real coffin are actually probably too small for even small Patti herself, as the embalming with hot glycerin and alcohol shrunk the actual corpse to make it incorruptible. And the original Playbill Mags for this production listed in fine print that the "effigy" of Evita was provided by "Such and Such, Inc." I'd have to go program diving to remember the name if the company. Whew! And finally the Montage didn't really make use of the projection screen much. Patti sits in a wing-back chair remembering and an understudy of her, whose face is purposefully unlit makes gestures from the top of the balcony, the tango dancers dance to the reprise of "I'd Be Surprisingly Good for You" Peron stands Center and sings his chorus of "High Flying Adored." While Eva sits still in the green chair UP stage right. Magaldi makes a brief pantomime performance with another understudy dressed as the young Evita. It all happens quick and then she hobbles over to the hospital bed to sing her Lament. Hope that helps. Glad you liked it, it was fun putting it together.☺
Madame Tussauds did a prop of Elaine Paiges head for the coffin scenes in the London production. So I guess, they did something similar for the US. Elaine shows her wax head in this BBC documentary (at 54:30): m.ua-cam.com/video/H_YeBu8c3ho/v-deo.html
This production from 1996 gives you a good visual presentation of the Montage scenes (it's also worth to watch this full show!): ua-cam.com/video/I3KKbu7cWO0/v-deo.htmlsi=VP_5g0TQY48tLct8
Fresh out of college starting a new job for St. Paul Insurance. Our home office manager came to NYC to train me and took me to see this at the Broadway Theater. My first Broadway performance. Pattie was young, beautiful and heartwarming to see and hear. Now 70 I can still see myself enthralled. A wonderful memory.
Yes we were all young I was a sub . Back in the day they did not always say it was not Patti for fear of not selling enough tickets but I tried to make an impresstion. I love this musical Shanti Shanti Shanti
What a first theater experience! Mine was Man of La Mancha, and I was hooked on Broadway. lol
This was my first Broadway show & i returned a few weeks later with my Mother. It was her first & only Broadway show.
She was 47 & cried throughout the whole show.
I wish so much there was more video of this show. It’s my favorite. This was very cool, thanks for putting it together!
Just came from Washington DC to see the latest Evita revival, it was disappointing. Each time I see Evita again, I am only more convinced of the greatness of the original 1979 American LuPone version: the voice, the orchestration, the staging. That was the best Evita.
I have the honor to see the show wit P. Lupone and M. Patinkin I love it!!!!! great performance the famous Eva Peron is always in my mind and heart. I have seen almost all the great musical works and each one is very special great talents and music. Long live Broadway!
Can't thank you enough for putting this together! I'm so happy to be able to put faces/costumes with the voices I've been listening to all these years.
Wasn't this a beautiful production! A true homage to the genuine person of Eva Duarte de Perón, her life and times. The set and costumes are nothing short of spectacular, and I can appreciate why Patti Lupone is considered (by many) to be the ultimate 'Evita' performer.
This is appealing, because so much attention has been given to make this a grand production, a real night out. So many performances of this show today lack the glamour of Evita as it's seen here.
Thank you sooo much! I have always wished there was a video of Patti's incredible breakout performance.
I saw the original London Production, and even though this is mostly stills and probably different in hundreds of miniscule ways its giving me shivers and taking me back in time.
In the original Australian production Jennifer Murphy was cast as Eva Maria Duarte de Peron. Sadly she shot her voice 6 months into the run. Patti Lupone was asked to finish the remaining 3 months and she accepted. I was 18 yo and even at that young age I recognised “star quality “! In her memoir she writes that the only time she enjoyed playing Evita was here in Sydney. Patti Lupone us a ROCK STAR ⭐️
Wow, you put serious work into this. Thank you.
I saw that production. I was 17. It was my first Broadway show. I have not seen many of these photos. Thank you for assembling them. It was a very effective presentation.
I also saw it at 17 although at that point it wasn't my first Broadway show. Never forget it. I also was lucky enough to make it backstage and got to stand on the Balcony of the Casa Rosada as well as see all the behind the scenes stuff that was beyond interesting to a 17 year old. I also snuck into the theater during the day when when they were doing a rehearsal and watched the entire thing from the last row of the orchestra. Either nobody noticed me back there or nobody cared but I saw the entire rehearsal from around Magaldi's entrance to the end. They all wore their street clothing except for the new Evita who they were rehearsing. She went through all the costume changes.
I have seen the show with Terry, Klausner, Patti LuPone, Loni Ackerman, Florence, Lacey, Valerie Perry, Donna Marie Elio. This is one of the best Broadway shows ever.
so much amazing talent on that stage! what incredible photos. thank you for making this!
Saw it in 1982 in NYC. Thank you for posting this. Sweet memories..😊
The ORIGINAL production was BREATH TAKING; unimaginable THEATRICALITY, A total experience. The revivals so far are dull, no fire, a few nice tunes...
This is incredible. What a surprise!!! Thank you so very much….Yeah I am in tears.
Thanks for uploading. Simply Beautiful!
Amazing effort here! Thanks for posting this!
Thank you soooooo much ❤
Opened in Los Angeles - incredible staging’s choreography…!
Heartbreaking that it was never filmed. I saw it live but an understudy performed Eva 😭
The greatest musical of the 20th century. Period. And Alan Parker's 1996 film was a brilliant, epic, and masterful adaptation and should have swept the 1996 Oscars; there was unfortunate and thoroughly undeserved bias towards Madonna's performance. It was, in retrospect, one of the best films of the 1990's and one of Parker's greatest directorial achievements. Producer Robert Stigwood received the 1980 Tony Award for the original Broadway production.
Oh how I wish to see this recorded
I can be argued that Patinkin has the better voice, but I preferred Banderas in the film version. Pantinkin sings the lyric in the style of a ballad, too sweet and too legato. Banderas's style was more satirical and staccato which seemed more in keeping with the story and the style of music. Plus his accent was delicious and his diction perfect. It doesn't hurt that Antonio fills the bill as a swarthy hot Latin type whereas Mandy just looks scruffy. His voice was a good counterpoint to Madonna's. Lupone's voice is gorgeous but Im glad they had Madonna in the film. She played the hilt out of that role.
Balcony scene brought down the house…!.!.!.!…..
Can everyone just take a few seconds to enjoy the amazing orchestra at 26:01
This is great - thank you so much. Do you happen to know what the image on the drop cloth is called, please?
As a matter of fact, I have personally researched this a lot. Unfortunately, the result of I aways came up with is merely this: While I watched this production on Broadway and in some subsequent national tours, there was fine print in the Playbill mag that "the front cloth for Evita was "inspired" by the work of the Hispanic artist Jose Clemente Orozco." This to me suggests that one of the designers, O'brien or Firth, used the Orozco style of painting to formulate their own front cloth, which in the myriad productions I've seen on tour, always seem to make use of the "totem pole, political hierarchy" concept with "socialistic rays" emanating in all directions around it. Those rays originally were dual warm colors like orange and yellow, while other productions more recently used dual "white and Argentine blue" for the stripes. However, as time went by what was on the totem pole simply was left to other off-broadway designers. I've even tried researching if there was some repository of set pieces where one , on-line, could procure, the orginal- style curtain, for a private production of this show. Those results were few and the products, "tacky and far outside the scope of the orginal." Hope that helps.
@@crice4866 Massively appreciated - thank you so much for this and for including the image within your video. Where did you manage to find it? 🙂
Sorry, my mistake. This isTHE One and Only EVITA, Patti LuPone
17:54 Buenos Aires
What is the chance that a full video of this cast surfaces?
Considering there’s one for the original Chorus Line cast I think it for sure exists somewhere
I owe you my soul. I cannot thank you enough. 21 year old obsessed with this musical, and of course in turn obsessed with this cast.
Edit:
I have several questions.
1. Is that a mannequin replica of Patti in the coffin in Oh What a Circus? If so, wow! If not, and that's really Patti, even more wow(!), because how the heck did she get from that setup to her brown wig so quickly?! Regardless, Broadway magic never ceases to amaze.
2. At around 1:00:24, Eva raises her hand. Could you tell me where exactly she was gesturing or what the raised hand was for? Looks kinda like she may have been flipping Che the bird lol. Can't help but feel he slightly deserves it!
3. Did they really use all those photos/clips of the real Eva on the big screen? If so that must've added so much context for the audience. I've never seen that done in any modern/amateur production, even though it's now so easy to access these images online. Maybe the footage is copyrighted/requires licensing for use in profit that most can't afford?
4. Are those real tears at 1:35:20?! NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO CRITICISE PATTI LUPONE EVER AGAIN (jk) (not really)
5. Could you explain exactly what happened during Montage? Did they project the footage of the cast (from earlier in the show) upon the big screen, or was it once again a selection of images of the real Eva in her prime? Either way, were these images shown with Eva slumped beneath the screen? What a profound image. I have no words. They took her exhaustion and inability to live UP ⬆ to her own standards and made visual the fact she was FALLING ⬇ short, literally.
Your exclusive use of colour photos is entirely immersive, not to mention your masterful audio engineering. I must commend you taking the time to find everything, and for including the TONY's A New Argentina. That performance (live) is arguably better than the recorded studio version. Special thanks also for the Rainbow High HD photos, I had never had a decent look at the hat before 1:05:28; and as well for the footage of the Waltz as seeing that black dress move was just mesmerising! I also was never quite sure whether Patti's Eva wore makeup to give her those dark circles around her eyes from Dice Are Rolling onward - it's a step most productions fail to take, after all the woman basically worked herself into exhaustion that likely aggravated her cancer. Seeing her collapse like that is heartbreakingly realistic, and at this point you can feel Eva withering away. The whole cast is amazing, but let's face it, Patti is the reason we're here and MY GOD she gives it everything she has and more.
I am genuinely in tears. Like I said, NO EXCUSES to give Patti shit for being stuck up about Broadway. This is as close as I'll ever get to seeing her live and even I can see she DESERVES the platform she has. She earned it.
You also earned my avid subscription, I look forward to seeing what you'll do in the future. Time to investigate the rest of your channel 🕵
P.S. Andrew Lloyd Webber, I am personally billing you for the €12.50 my eye drops are going to cost me. My eyes are raw from crying at this show - this is the third "production" I've watched in 2 days. Dammit.
🤩Wow, Evita-Luponephilia strikes again with someone other than me. Yes, she's flipping the guy off, but it was a political aristocrat she flipped, not Che boy. She did it in a way that was common in Latin America at the time I'm sure. It's kind of pushing your fist through your other hand very quickly making your whole arm stand "ERECT" with a slapping sound(instead of just a finger). With the fist as the "head" or more clinically the "glans penis." LOL And yes most of the footage and photographs of her are public domain, coming from newsreels of the time. I'm sure they had to pay a few royalties, though. As for the corpse, my best guess is that this IS Patti and it was done for publicity purposes ONLY with a still photo. She never had time to jump in the coffin. Ha ha. This coffin and Eva's real coffin are actually probably too small for even small Patti herself, as the embalming with hot glycerin and alcohol shrunk the actual corpse to make it incorruptible. And the original Playbill Mags for this production listed in fine print that the "effigy" of Evita was provided by "Such and Such, Inc." I'd have to go program diving to remember the name if the company. Whew! And finally the Montage didn't really make use of the projection screen much. Patti sits in a wing-back chair remembering and an understudy of her, whose face is purposefully unlit makes gestures from the top of the balcony, the tango dancers dance to the reprise of "I'd Be Surprisingly Good for You" Peron stands Center and sings his chorus of "High Flying Adored." While Eva sits still in the green chair UP stage right. Magaldi makes a brief pantomime performance with another understudy dressed as the young Evita. It all happens quick and then she hobbles over to the hospital bed to sing her Lament. Hope that helps. Glad you liked it, it was fun putting it together.☺
Madame Tussauds did a prop of Elaine Paiges head for the coffin scenes in the London production. So I guess, they did something similar for the US. Elaine shows her wax head in this BBC documentary (at 54:30): m.ua-cam.com/video/H_YeBu8c3ho/v-deo.html
This production from 1996 gives you a good visual presentation of the Montage scenes (it's also worth to watch this full show!): ua-cam.com/video/I3KKbu7cWO0/v-deo.htmlsi=VP_5g0TQY48tLct8
Is this using the official cast recording
This is the original Broadway Cast. Not the London Cast.!!!
That’s A-MAZ-ING! Do you have access to the whole film of the San José production? I’d love to see that too.
ua-cam.com/video/4xpjb59_h98/v-deo.html
@@crice4866 THANK YOU!! Fabulous!
I like Patti's voice better than Paige, and that's saying a lot eh. It's more expressive.
This Che was much too posh... not as good as Banderas.