Word: eva
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sloan, who also appeared in "The Ruling Class" and "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui," adds that Eva is not afraid of using any and everyone to get what she wants. "I think that's the point of the play--we're all using one another so we can't point the finger at anyone. I don't think that's anyone's life motto. But everyone has bad things about them, and hopefully everyone has good things about them too," she says...
Pier Carlo Talenti II '90, who plays Che, the story's narrator, had a difficult time separating his character from the music that the character sings. Talenti says that he also worked on exploring the nature of the relationship between Che and Eva. "I don't remember the character being as complex as he is for me now," Talenti says...
Talenti says it was only gradually that he came to realize that his character, who criticizes Eva's actions throughout the show, actually loves the dictator's wife. He says that Sloan planted the seed of his realization during a rehearsal...
...rock opera chronicles the meteoric rise of Argentina's Eva Peron, who began with "every disadvantage you need if you're gonna succeed./No money, no class, no father." Before she died at 33, Eva had risen to prominence as an actress, married military leader Juan Peron, helped him become Argentina's president and achieved near-sainthood in the eyes of the working class, known as the descamisados or "shirtless ones...
...surprisingly, the part of Eva is the musical and emotional center of the show, and Jacqueline Sloan more than lives up to the challenge. From her first appearance as a scheming 15-year-old to her last pain-filled lament while dying of cancer, Sloan dominates the stage. When she finishes the show's signature song, "Don't Cry for Me Argentina," the whole audience cheers along with the descamisados. In previous musicals, Sloan has been stuck with absolutely awful scripts and worse supporting casts, but in Evita she at last has the chance to shine...