| Body of Argentina's Peron to move to $1.1 million crypt | | Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 3:12:55 AM by Blog57 Team | | BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Juan Domingo Peron, who dominated Argentine politics like no other 20th-century leader with the glamorous Evita at his side, was to be buried Tuesday for a third time since his death in 1974. Peron's body was taken in a funeral van early Tuesday to a union hall for a midday tribute. Later Tuesday, the remains were to be escorted to a new $1.1 million mausoleum in the cattle-ranching countryside, where supporters hope the body of his famous first lady will join him one day. Relatives of the late Eva Peron, or Evita, have opposed moving her coffin from her family's tomb in Buenos Aires' downtown Recoleta cemetery, where it has remained since a bizarre drama involving two trans-Atlantic crossings since her death from cancer in 1952 at age 33.... | |
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| | | 'Evita,' Trying Hard to Be Populist | | Posted Sunday, September 03, 2006 9:15:20 AM by Blog57 Team | | Who should be the real star of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Evita"? The actress in the title role as the ambitious performer turned first lady of Argentina? The man playing Che Guevara, who angrily snarls narration as Eva Peron manipulates her way to the political top? Lloyd Webber himself, whose pop-symphonic score has undeniable theatrical panache? In Joe Banno's egalitarian production, it's the people, and that suits the purposes of the Open Circle Theatre just fine. Open Circle's mission is to include artists with and without disabilities, so this "Evita" offers an Argentine citizenry that looks less like a standard Broadway chorus than an actual populace suddenly collected in the street. .... | |
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| | | Winter of the Patriarch | | Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 11:07:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti commentator Anatoly Korolyov) - Few have noticed the brief news item saying that Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguay's former dictator and a general, who ruled the country with an iron hand for 35 years, died in Brazil at the age of 94, following a hernia operation. For Latin America, where political life is so tempestuous, such long survival is something unprecedented. Gone are Trujillo, Somoza and Duvalier, Pinochet's throne shook and collapsed, hurricanes with female names like Evita swept over the continent, but Stroessner's rule in Paraguay had continued unperturbed from 1954 when it was established. The secret of keeping the population docile was simple: in a country the size of an average U.S. state the dictator built 12 huge camps for all sorts of rebels and fools.... | |
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| | | Talented cast makes 'Evita' its own | | Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 5:02:53 AM by Blog57 Team | | Civic Theatre's production of ''Evita,'' the musical masterpiece by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, was billed as a concert version with minimal staging and no sets. But under Artistic Director William Sanders' imaginative direction, the production became a mini-extravaganza, filled with so much action, excitement and talent that it was easy to understand why it sold out last weekend's two-performance run, a benefit for the theater. Sanders amassed an amazing group of artists. The show was well staged, well performed and almost perfect musically, with singers and dancers filling the stage and spilling into the aisles. .... | |
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| | | Evita Announces West End Extension | | Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 7:07:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | Michael Grandage's West End revival of Evita has extended its booking period by five months to Feb. 3, 2007. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Time Rice's musical, starring Argentine singer/dancer Elena Roger, opened to acclaim at London's Adelphi Theatre on June 21 following previews that began June 2. The cast also feature Matt Rawle (Camelot, Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre) as the narrator and three-times Oliivier Award winner Philip Quast (Sunday in the Park With George, The Fix and South Pacific) as Peron. Evita focuses on Eva Peron's rise from her slum origins to the wife of Argentina's post-war nationalist leader Juan Peron, a position from which she held her people in thrall. Such was her power she became her country's unofficial vice-president, growing richer while her people's poverty deepened.... | |
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