Evita By Charlotte Keatley Play no. 690 Opening: 9/29/2015
Creative Team Lyrics: Tim Rice Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Translated by: DANIEL EFRAT Directed by: MOSHE KEPTEN Musical Director: YOSSI BEN NUN Choreographer: AVICHAI HACHAM Set Design: BAMBI FRIDMAN Costume Design: YELENA KELRICH Lighting Design: KEREN GRANEK Sound Design: LIOR TEVET Wigs Design: OSNAT SAGIE Vocal Coach: DOKI ATZMON Sampler arrangements: ELDAD YARON Video Editor: ARIK AVIGDOR
Cast EVA PERON: SHIRI MAIMON CHE GUEVARA: RAN DANKER JUAN PERON: AKI AVNI AGUSTIN MEGALDI: RAPHAEL WEINSTOCK PERON'S MISTRESS: REVITAL ZALTSMAN
Women Chorus TUT MULLOR – Dance Kepten JULIA SHACHAR-AKOPYAN LIRON WIGDOR SHIR ZELINGER LIRON COHEN MEITAL NOTIK DORIS NEMNI MARIANA SINCHUK MIRIT FARGUN SHIR KAUFMAN BAR KLEIN ELLA ROSENZWEIG KARIN SHIFRIN TAMAR ILNAI
Men Chorus ISRAEL ERNEST HANANEL EDRI NADIR ELDAD BARAK BITTON MATAN BEN- SHIMOL EVIATATR BAR- DAVID SHIMON HABA
Musicians Piano & Conductor: YOSSI BEN NUN Sampler: GIORA LINENBERG Sampler: SHAHAR GLAZER Trombone: LUISA SALOMON Trumpet: HADAR REISS Contrabass & Bass Guitar: GILAD EFRAT Guitar: ILAN SABACH Drums: MICHAL RAHAT Percussion: YONI GIVONY
The Play
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Evita charts the rags-to-riches rise of the First Lady of Argentina, who won the love of her countrymen after marrying military leader- turned-president Juan Peron. Set in Buenos Aires between 1934-1952, the musical follows Eva Duarte Peron on her journey from fatherless child to ambitious actress to the most powerful woman in Latin America—and, eventually, to a saint-like figure after her death from cancer at age 33. The events in Evita’s life are presented in song and editorialized on by the show’s narrator, Che Guevara.