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...which she played supporting roles that traded on her headstrong image, like 1985's Desperately Seeking Susan or 1992's A League of Their Own. When she took the lead the films flopped - 1986's Shanghai Surprise cost $17 million and grossed less than $2.5 million. (1996's Evita, which bagged her a Golden Globe, did much better, but that one is sung through, making it effectively a feature-length music video.) Madonna has earned the right to try whatever she likes. But if she fails, this biggest of stars falls far and hard, in front of millions. Unfortunately, Australian...
...that is one of the few things Swift did in her short tenure I applaud. But being a worried parent doesn't exempt you from the law. If you don't own up to the personal use of a state plane and pay for it, you come across like Evita, as if motherhood entitles you to skirt the rules. This lapse might not have caused such a flap if it had not played into an image already gelling that Swift thought she deserved special treatment. She'd been defiant when accused of using State House employees to babysit, and didn...
...won’t take this opportunity to argue for equality of shelf space or even social acceptability (Andrew Lloyd Webber’s post-Evita work set back that mission by at least a generation), but, for those who know not only that New York hosted two adaptations of The Wild Party in 2000 but also which featured an opening number entitled “Queenie Was a Blonde” (trick question, both did), I’d like to offer a recommendation regarding my favorite recent album, last year’s New York Philharmonic-backed recording...
...actor playing Larson, and in the lead role, Raul Esparza was an absolute revelation; he is now my favorite musical theater performer. This was not the first time I saw Esparza on stage—I was impressed by his turn as Che in the 20th anniversary tour of Evita that played Boston two summers ago and was wowed by his Riff-Raff in Rocky Horror—but as Jonathan he displayed such vocal power and genuine vulnerability, that there was no way I could pull my eyes off of him. Esparza is a theatrical force to be reckoned...
...urban legend that raping a virgin cures the disease. The son of a German-Jewish mother and an Afrikaans father, Uys, 56, began his career as a playwright in the early 1970s but found his work banned. Undeterred, he donned a frowzy dress and created his famous alter ego, Evita Bezuidenhout, the saccharine-sweet wife of a conservative politician - and used her character to lampoon apartheid's absurdities in farces like Adapt or Dye and Skating on Thin Uys. His Evita not only escaped the censors - she soon had the nation eating out of her well-manicured hand. After...