Word: evita
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Daniel Stern (who played the gangliest "cutter" in Breaking Away) fixes his character with a goofy, all-American grin that, by play's end, has become an eerie, all too American grimace. Bob Gunton (Perón in the Broadway Evita) is a pinwheel of energy and Cheshire-cat charms. He brings eccentric life to a gallery of characters who are not really characters at all: they are supporting specters in one naive American's gook sonata. They may all be the same person, or no one at all. And in the play's final image...
...Faye Dunaway, Argentina. The truth is she never left a book unread in boning up for her role as Evita Perón in a TV movie set to be aired in February. "She came from absolute poverty and created for herself absolute power," reports an admiring Dunaway, 39. "She forged a mystical relationship with the poor in her country. An incredible mixture of instinct and awareness, intelligence and emotion." NBC's four-hour Evita!-First Lady, which co-stars James Farentino, 42, as Dictator Juan Perón, bears little resemblance to the current Broadway musical. Says Dunaway...
Jones closes Sept. 13, the Goodspeed will open another original musical, Zapata, based on the life of the Mexican revolutionary. Any resemblance to the lucrative career of Evita has probably not gone unnoticed. "We are producing shows for the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, and not for New York," Price says in a well-learned ritual. "But," he adds candidly, "we always hope...