theater<\/a>, it\u2019s really exciting because suddenly you see her with a genuine huge crowd, which you can\u2019t do onstage,\u201d Lloyd Webber told The Associated Press on Thursday (June 19). \u201cI think there will be people who are disappointed that she hasn\u2019t sung it live in the theater, but I think it\u2019s going to be greatly outweighed by the theatricality of using film in that way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tThe decision by director\u00a0Jamie Lloyd\u00a0has sparked some grumbling from ticketholders who paid up to 245 pounds ($330) for a seat, only for the musical\u2019s most famous number to be sung offstage.<\/p>\n
\n\tIt\u2019s a technique Lloyd has used before. He had a character in Sunset Boulevard perform a song while walking down the street outside the theater, and his production of Romeo and Juliet saw star Tom Holland play a key scene on the theater roof.<\/p>\n
Theater blogger Carl Woodward told the BBC that he could understand why some theatregoers who\u2019d forked out for a ticket felt \u201ca bit aggrieved,\u201d since \u201ca trip to the theater for some is really a once-a-year occasion.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Lloyd Webber cited an opinion piece in The Times of London noting that the gesture is \u201ckind of what Eva Per\u00f3n would have wanted \u2014 that people are actually experiencing her big anthem, as it were, for free.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a new production of Evita, one of the biggest moments isn\u2019t on the stage. Midway through the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,12,32519,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-198591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-theater","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114713080807233143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}