Evita (Touring)

The fantastic Evita is returning to the West End in July 2017.

Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s much-loved musical about Eva Peron, wife of Argentine dictator Juan Peron, will have a 12 week run at the Phoenix Theatre this summer after Gary Barlow’s The Girls closes.

Emma Hatton will star as Peron, who died of cancer at the age of 33. Her death was met with intense grief by the public, three million of whom attended her funeral in Buenos Aires.

Hatton played Peron when the musical was on tour earlier this year, and has also performed as Elphaba in Wicked and starred in We Will Rock You and Dreamboats and Petticoats.

Evita first opened in the West End in 1978, and was made into a film starring Madonna and Antonio Banderas in 1996.