{"id":230687,"date":"2025-07-02T00:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/230687\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:53:14","slug":"ignore-the-haters-rachel-zegler-is-an-absolute-smash-in-evita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/230687\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignore the haters, Rachel Zegler is an absolute smash in Evita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written in 1976 \u2014 after the pop-religious romps about Joseph and Jesus with Rice, and before the imperial phase of Cats and Phantom \u2014 Evita may be Lloyd Webber\u2019s most fully realised work. The juxtaposition of sacred music and tango, the way songs and themes loop and flower throughout the score, particularly Don\u2019t Cry For Me and Oh What a Circus, is elegant and beautiful. Another Suitcase in Another Hall, sung by the mistress whom Eva has supplanted, sees the composer and lyricist at their melodious, bittersweet best. Rainbow High, given full welly by Zegler, is a banger. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Written in 1976 \u2014 after the pop-religious romps about Joseph and Jesus with Rice, and before the imperial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,80185,4884,80840,257,66333,16927,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-230687","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-evita","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-jamie-lloyd","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-london-palladium","15":"tag-musicals","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114780910658910642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230687","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=230687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}