EVITA at the Sondheim

The Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts hosted the musical 'EVITA” Friday. Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's blockbuster hit musical was celebrating the 40th anniversary of its 1979 Broadway debut. Staged by Andy Ferrara with musical direction by Lloyd Cooper, the tour brought together talent from around the country to perform one of the best-known musicals in history. EVITA charts the young and ambitious Eva Peron's meteoric rise to sainthood. Set in Argentina between 1934-1952, the Tony Award-Winning musical follows Eva Duarte on her journey from poor, illegitimate child to ambitious actress to, as wife of military leader-turned-president Juan Peron, the most powerful woman in Latin America, before her death from cancer at age 33.