Evita

I hope its a chunky little run. I imagine it will be something like 3 months, which I would be happy with, but I hope its not just like 55 performances like the Dominion run, or e 30 performance of Dirty Dancing is past Christmas, it make you think whats the point in doing up the front of the theatre and spending the money, I like a three month run, it just sounds good haha.

Presumably nothing planned because they expected The Girls to run a lot longer than it will end up doing?

I'd guess 'Evita' is a bit of an easy no-brainer to fill in a gap and it's probably always running somewhere. People know the songs and staging-wise all you need is a staircase and a big white frock. Can't be that expensive to put on.

I imagine they'll want The Exorcist in time for Halloween so probably August until mid to late October

Its not even that exciting a set really, which was a bit of a let down after watching clips of the 2012 Broadway Production, which looked stunning!

This production is heavily inspired by the 2006 Grandage production (which also became the 2012 Broadway production) in that it is staged like a movie (it is of course itself influenced by Alan Parker's 1996 film version). The original 1978/1979 production in London and on Broadway directed by Hal Prince was supposed to have been incredibly groundbreaking - the show was staged as a scrapbook or snapshot of Eva's life - almost like a bad dream. Most of it was black and white. Paige and LuPone were directed to have been FEROCIOUS not as wilting heroines like Elena Roger was or this tour's Eva was. Prince's production included a backdrop filled with photos of the actual Evita. It was stark, bold and fresh at the time. And I wish we could see that physical production revived today instead of the absolute rubbish that is this tour and the 2006 production.

Yes and then in then in a few years people would be saying "oh god it's really time for a change" like they do now with West Side Story. This constant harking back to "this production" or "that production" really gets on my nerves. If they're going to keep reviving these show they have to try different approaches. It doesn't mean you have to like them all of course but hankering after moments in time from a decade ago isn't going to move things along.

I'm not saying she is a wilting heroine, I'm just saying I don't really remember much of what was going on between the key moments in the show. And also, is she really a heroine? Are we supposed to like Eva, because she is a bit of a bitch.

I felt bad for the Mistress and how horrible Eva was to her, even though her song made her sound alot more interesting than Eva and more of an interesting story! I wanna hear the Mistress' story!

There is, or at least was back in 2009-10, a smaller version of the set for use in theatres where the main set won't fit so they could always use that if necessary. However if it's only a metre difference I would think they'd manage to fit in the main set as they must be used to fitting it into a variety of tour theatres.

More online digging has revealed that a ticket site has listed Evita at the Phoenix between Thursday 27th July and Saturday 14th October, with The Exorcist starting at the same theatre on Thursday 19th October, nicely in time for Hallowe'en! Not sure how accurate but same site was accurate for Mary Stuart venue and dates.

Indeed, this is the website listing Evita at the Phoenix.

www.tickx.co.uk/venue/2604/phoenix-theatre/