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HRDC President Fouad S. Onbargi '89, who acknowledges the club's bias toward non-musicals, credits the show's director Adam J. Fratto '90, with the ideas that succeeded in passing the club's highly competitive process for selecting its shows...
...Fratto "had lined up fantastic lighting and technical crews," Onbargi says. "The director also had really great and creative ideas, like he thought that he wanted to do a rock version of the show rather than following the traditional style," he says, explaining why Fratto's was one of two productions the club approved this semester...
...Fratto describes this opportunity to do "Evita" on the Mainstage in terms that make it seem like a dream come true. "I've always loved the music from this show, and when I saw a badly done production of it years ago I decided that I wanted to do it," he says...
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...