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Presenting "Evita" on the Mainstage is a milestone in his Harvard directing career, he adds. "I think that this is the most ambitious thing that I've done here at Harvard and it is probably the most ambitious thing that I will do at Harvard," Fratto says...
...director says he thinks he has interpreted the show very differently from other productions of "Evita." "I see it as a colder production than ones that are usually done. `Evita' is a cynical, harsh portrayal of a totalitarian regime," Fratto says. "To accent this perception, I stripped down the music to a hard-edge,rock score," he says...
...addition, the show posed difficulties for the producers, says Co-Producer Ricardo J. Dopico '89. He said he was forced to approach the logistics of producing "Evita" differently than he would a smaller production. On the Mainstage, he says, producers oversee the operations behind the scenes while a large crew takes care of more menial tasks. In a smaller show the producers often end up taking care of most of the minute details themselves, he says...
Producing a show on the Mainstage involves a lot more public relations work, too, Corbett says. "It was an incredible thing to produce `Evita.' In a house production you end up doing all the technical work, whereas when you're producing on the Mainstage. you end up on the phone all the time...
...lead actors say they found that while working on "Evita," their perceptions of their characters changed...