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Ashland 64° subscribe | newsletter | deals HOME NEWS SPORTS OPINION REVELS LIFESTYLE CLASSIFIEDS JOBS AUTOS REAL ESTATE FEATURED » OBITUARIES PHOTOS VIDEOS NEWS NOW ... ... COUPON OF THE WEEK A big-time Evita Save 50% or more on LimelightDeals.com Camelot Theatre overcomes visual miscues to offer a powerful performance Visit limelightdeals.com/deal/southern- oregon to view deals that will... LimelightDeals.com Camelot Theatre extends “Evita” with additional shows set for 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 21-23, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24 — There's something SEE ALL ONLINE TODAY MORE >> haunting and unforgettable about "Evita," the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, Save $50 on our Nano Peel Tony Award-winning musical. It's a rags... Renew Medical Spa at Medical Eye Center Buy 2 Obagi Radiant Blue Peels, get 1 free! (Save $125) Renew Medical Spa at Medical Eye Center By Roberta Kent $10 Off Any Service Posted Oct. 24, 2013 @ 2:00 am TC Chevy Updated Nov 7, 2013 at 10:40 AM Free Dessert Cicily's Pastaria & Grill Camelot Theatre extends “Evita” with Happy Hour Appetizer Prices Anytime With additional shows set for 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 21-23, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24 — There's something haunting and unforgettable about "Evita," the Andrew TOP JOBS Care Giver~Group Home All shifts Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, Tony Award-winning MEDFORD, or Classifieds musical. It's a rags-to-riches story with an unhappy ending. It also is a historically accurate Taj Indian Restaurant, LLC in — if ambivalent — retelling of the story of a ASHLAND, or Classifieds political icon that irrevocably changed Rogue Valley CPA firm seeks well Argentina's history in the late 1940s. Classifieds AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIANS AIRPORT Zoom It also has terrific music — a rich fusion of Latin, MEDFORD, or Classifieds Photo courtesy of Steve Sutfin pop and jazz influences. Jackson Miner (Juan Peron), left, Rebecca K. More Top Jobs Campbell (Eva Peron) and Erik Connolly (Che Camelot Theatre Company's production of Guevarra) appear in Camelot Theatre's production of the musical "Evita." Photo "Evita," directed by Artistic Director Livia Genise, courtesy of Camelot Theatre has the energy, the powerful music and the assertive choreography that "Evita" demands. It TOP HOMES also has classically trained vocal talents as its leads. If there are some visual miscues here, they fade in comparison to the effect of the whole. This is an "Evita" equal to any big-city revival of Central Point, Oregon - 559,900 - Hard to find, the show. close in, 3.10 acres located at the end of quiet road. Central Point address but Medford school district. Pastures, great small... Rebecca K. Campbell as Eva certainly has the voice for Webber's technically complex score. "Evita" is, in fact, an opera, and Campbell is a true opera diva in the best sense. The challenge Medford, Oregon - $359,900 - New home under here is that Campbell is playing a young, lithe and brittle heroine in her early 20s, as Brian M. construction in desirable East Medford's Vista O'Connor's evocative historical video projections make clear. Campbell does not embody the Pointe. The home features nine foot ceilings calculating coquetry of the young Eva or the fragile health of the dying one. throughout and eleven foot in the... More Top Homes It is an interesting trade off — superb voice for physical verisimilitude. I go with the voice. Bob Jackson Miner does a fine job as Peron, both vocally and dramatically. In Rice's libretto, Peron never comes off as a strong dictator, even in his confrontations with the military. Genise has Miner show more strength than the script offers and it's a nice change. The standout of this production is Erik Connolly as Che, the commentator on the action. Connolly's clear, strong voice and forceful acting has all the anger and irony that the character » STAY INFORMED requires, and Genise moves his catlike presence around the stage with aplomb. Email Sign Up Today NewsLetter Genevieve Andreaessen provided the fine choreography with assistance from Campbell. Mark Sign up for our newsletter and have the top Reppert is the musical director and part of the excellent five-piece, off-stage orchestra with Lori headlines from your community delivered right Calhoun, Karl Iverson, Jesus Mendoza and Steve Sutfin. to your inbox. Eva Duarte Peron started out as a poor child in an Argentine provincial city. Blessed with canny intelligence and sensuality, if not real beauty, she arrived in the capital, Buenos Aires, via a sexual liaison with a touring second-rate tango singer. Americans Detained in North Korea Call for US Help "Evita" wryly chronicles her rise to stardom as a model, a film actress and a national radio personality in the production number, "Good Night and Thank You," a quick montage of the Southern California High School Retires lovers Eva used and discarded on her way up. Divisive Arab Mascot Rather than being kept and discarded by one wealthy man then another, like Juan Peron's Report: Doctors Bringing Joan Rivers Out of teenage mistress in the big production number of "Another Suitcase in Another Hall," Eva was Medical Coma calculating enough to always get jobs with visibility and influence in return for her sexual favors. By the time she hooked up with Juan Peron, a rising star in Argentina's military government, Only 27 Percent of ALS Ice Bucket Donations both were, indeed, useful for one another ("I'd Be Surprisingly Good for You"). 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Showtimes are 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets can be purchased in person at the box office Monday through Saturday TOP CLICKS from noon to 5 p.m. and one hour before performances; by phone at 541-535-5250; or online at POPULAR EMAILED www.camelottheatre.org. What do you think of the changes on Roberta Kent is a freelance writer living in Ashland. Reach her at [email protected]. the Plaza? 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