Word: eva
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brand color TV that may have to be replaced in a few years, consumers are choosing $600 and $700 Sonys, the industry's standard of excellence, whose sales are up substantially. At Beverly Hills' trendy Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf shop, the all-metal $99.50 Eva brand coffee maker outsells by 3 to 1 the part plastic $79.95 Braun coffee brewer. Sales of Kodak's low-priced Instamatic cameras have been sluggish, but sales are really clicking for Nikon, Olympus and Canon cameras, which retail for some $250 and up, and provide all the features that most...
LuPone is incendiary as Eva, but she seems to burn with the borrowed fuel of the legend rather than internal charismatic combustion. As Perón, Gunton subtly alternates the wariness of a man walking through a political minefield with the sweaty lust for power engendered by his pint-size Lady Macbeth...
...Webber score is inferior to their work in Jesus Christ Super star. While ingratiatingly melodic for the most part, Lloyd Webber's tunes seem to have been composed by the British equivalent of ASCAP anonymous. Rice's lyrics too often rely on straw-clutching rhymes. The dying Eva plaintively asks, "What is the good of the strongest heart/ In a body that's falling apart...
Larry Fuller's choreography neatly underscores Eva's isolated eminence. A group of calcified aristocrats in full evening dress shuffles across the stage spewing venom at the people's "saint." In counterpoint, an army platoon in full re galia does an absurdist parody of close-order drill while scurrilously sneering at "Perón's latest flame...
...crackling tempo. It is Prince, aided by a huge gray screen whose cyclopean eye brims with historic film clips, who hurls the dramatic thunderbolts of the evening. In two scenes of mass turbulence, with banners flying and the crowd in a hypnotic roar, Perón and Eva turn their microphones into rhetorical firebrands, and Prince engulfs play ers and playgoers alike in a demagogic inferno...