Evita

Tacoma Musical Playhouse
7116 Sixth Avenue Tacoma

With a stunning score by Andrew Lloyd Webber and the famed lyrics of Tim Rice, the compelling true story of Argentina's former first lady Eva Perón comes to vivid life on stage at Tacoma Musical Playhouse. Filled with stunning showstoppers like "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" and "Another Suitcase in Another Hall," Evita follows a small-town peasant girl as she uses her considerable smarts to rise from the slums of Argentina. Driven by ambition and blessed with charisma, she became a starlet at twenty-two, the president's mistress at twenty-four, First Lady at twenty-seven, and died at thirty-three. Eva Peron, "saint to the working-class, reviled by the aristocracy and mistrusted by the military," left a political legacy that shines on to this day. With its compelling score that fuses haunting chorales with exuberant Latin, pop and jazz influences, Evita creates an arresting theatrical portrait as complex as the woman herself.