Rachel Zegler, who recently starred in the London Palladium revival of
Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita, recently appeared on the BBC program Strictly Come Dancing to perform the musical's best-known anthem.
Watch the stage and screen star sing "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" in the video below.
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And if you want to hear more, the 10-track cast recording of Evita featuring Zegler is now available on all streaming platforms. The production, which was directed by Jamie Lloyd, also revealed that a full cast recording, of every song from the show, will be released in 2026.
Released on The Other Songs label, Zegler's rendition of "Don’t Cry For Me Argentina," the latter also reaching No. 1 on the official U.K. Vinyl Singles Chart on three occasions.
Other tracks on the 10-track album include "Oh What A Circus," "Buenos Aires," "I’d Be Surprisingly Good for You," "Another Suitcase in Another Hall," "A New Argentina," "High Flying Adored," "And The Money Kept Rollin In (And Out)," and "You Must Love Me," the last song originally written for the Madonna film version of Evita. Also featured are Diego Andres Rodriguez, James Olivas, Aaron Lee Lambert, and Bella Brown.
The through-sung musical follows Eva Duarte, an illegitimate young
girl from Los Toldos, who rose from anonymity to become an actress and
eventually the First Lady of Argentina before her tragic death from
cancer at the age of 33. Song titles include "Don’t Cry for Me Argentina," "Buenos Aires," "Rainbow High," and "High
Flying Adored," among others.
Evita originally premiered as a two-LP recording in 1976 starring Julie Covington in the title role and Colm Wilkinson as Che. Harold Prince staged both the original London and New York productions of the musical, which made stars of Elaine Paige in London in 1978 and Mandy Patinkin and Patti LuPone the following year on Broadway, where it won seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Lloyd Webber and Rice had previously collaborated on Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Jesus Christ Superstar. Evita would mark their last major collaboration together.
Madonna, Antonio Banderas, and Jonathan Pryce starred in the 1996 film version of Evita. Though 2012 was the last Broadway revival of Evita (starring Elena Roger and Ricky Martin), there have been attempts to bring it back to the Main Stem. The most recent New York production, staged at City Center in November 2019, featured Solea Pfeiffer and Maia Reficco splitting the titular role under the direction of Sammi Cannold. That same production was then staged in Washington, D.C. and Cambridge, Massachusetts—though future plans have not materialized.
Lloyd first directed Evita at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre as part of its 2019 season.
Sally Frith, Diego Andres Rodriguez, Rachel Zegler, Aaron Lee Lambert, Mireia Mambo, and company of Evita
Rachel Zegler and company of Evita
Rachel Zegler and company of Evita
Rachel Zegler and company of Evita
Rachel Zegler and company of Evita
Rachel Zegler and James Olivas in Evita
Diego Andres Rodriguez and Rachel Zegler in Evita
Natasha Leaver and Dianté Lodge in Evita
James Olivas in Evita
Diego Andres Rodriguez, Rachel Zegler, and James Olivas in Evita
Carl Au, Diego Andres Rodriguez, Damian Buhagiar, and DeAngelo Jones in Evita
Bella Brown in Evita
Company of Evita
