Get a Sneak Peek at Rachel Zegler's Outdoor 'Don't Cry for Me Argentina' in London Evita Revival

Director Jamie Lloyd's current Tony-winning Broadway revival of Sunset Blvd. famously features 2025 Tony nominee Tom Francis singing the musical's title tune backstage at the St. James Theatre before heading onto W. 44th St. and subsequently returning to the stage just in time for the song's exciting conclusion.

Lloyd is continuing the outdoor theme in his current London Palladium revival of another Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Evita, which features Rachel Zegler鈥攚ho stars in the title role鈥攑erforming the musical's anthem, "Don't Cry for Me Argentina," on the balcony of the ~~Casa Rosada~~ Palladium. The performance is then livestreamed to the audience inside of the theatre, who watch it on a screen鈥攚hile outside, large crowds have begun to gather to watch Zegler sing the song live.

Get a sneak peek of Zegler's performance in the video below. Composer Lloyd Webber also recently about the outdoor staging, explaining, "Well I saw the first preview鈥� [and the balcony performance] really worked very, very well. I'm understanding now that the crowds coming to see it are really getting quite large鈥� Within the theatre, it's really exciting because suddenly you see [Eva] with a genuine huge crowd, which you can't do on stage. I think there will be people who are disappointed that she hasn't sung it live in the theatre, but I think it's going to be greatly outweighed by the theatricality of using film in that way."

Previews for the limited engagement began June 14, with Zegler (West Side Story, Romeo + Juliet, Snow White) as Eva; Diego Andres Rodriguez, who made his Broadway debut as Artie in Lloyd's Tony-winning revival of Sunset Blvd., as Che; James Olivas as Juan Per贸n; Aaron Lee Lambert as Agust铆n Magaldi; and Bella Brown as The Mistress/Alternate Eva.

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The ensemble includes Carl Au, Gabriela Benedetti, Shakara Brown, Damian Buhagiar, Kyeirah D'Marni, Sally Frith, DeAngelo Jones, Lucas Koch, Natasha Leaver, Michael Lin, Diant茅 Lodge, Louis Mackrodt, Mireia Mambo, Mia Mullarkey, Perry O鈥橠ea, Alysha Sontae, Monica Swayne, Jon Tsouras, and Harrison Wilde, with Myla Carmen, Barney Hudson, Nathan Louis-Fernand, Kirsty Anne Shaw, Ricardo Spriggs, and Regan Bailey Walker as Swings. Auora Breslin, Lois Haidar, Siena Merilind-Wu, and Ffion Rosalie Williams share the role of The Child.

The creative team also includes choreographer Fabian Aloise, set and costume designer Soutra Gilmour, music supervisor and musical director Alan Williams, lighting designer Jon Clark, and sound designer Adam Fisher. All but Fisher are reprising their work from the production's 2019 Regent's Park staging. Casting is by Will Burton, with U.S. casting by Jim Carnahan. The creative team also includes wig, hair, and makeup designer Carole Hancock; children's casting director and children's administrator Harry Blumenau; fight director Kate Waters; prop supervisor Lily Mollgaard; and intimacy coordinator Ingrid Mackinnon, with orchestral management by Andy Barnwell and Rich Weedon for BW Musicians.

The through-sung musical follows Eva Duarte, an illegitimate young girl from Los Toldos, who rose from anonymity to become an actress and eventually the First Lady of Argentina before her tragic death from cancer at the age of 33. Song titles include "Don鈥檛 Cry for Me Argentina," "Buenos Aires," "Rainbow High," and "High Flying Adored," among others.

Evita originally premiered as a two-LP recording in 1976 starring Julie Covington in the title role and Colm Wilkinson as Che. Harold Prince staged both the original London and New York productions of the musical, which made stars of Elaine Paige in London in 1978 and Mandy Patinkin and Patti LuPone the following year on Broadway, where it won seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Lloyd Webber and Rice had previously collaborated on Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Jesus Christ Superstar. Evita would mark their last major collaboration together.

Madonna, Antonio Banderas, and Jonathan Pryce starred in the 1996 film version of Evita. Though 2012 was the last Broadway revival of Evita (starring Elena Roger and Ricky Martin), there have been attempts to bring it back to the Main Stem. The most recent New York production, staged at City Center in November 2019, featured Solea Pfeiffer and Maia Reficco splitting the titular role under the direction of Sammi Cannold. That same production was then staged in Washington, D.C. and Cambridge, Massachusetts鈥攖hough future plans have not materialized.

Lloyd first directed Evita at Regent鈥檚 Park Open Air Theatre as part of its 2019 season.

Performances are currently scheduled through September 6.

The revival is produced by Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals and Lloyd for The Jamie Lloyd Company by arrangement with The Really Useful Group Ltd.

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