{"id":761752,"date":"2026-04-29T16:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/761752\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:46:14","slug":"evita-starring-rachel-zegler-set-for-broadway-in-spring-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/761752\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Evita’ Starring Rachel Zegler Set for Broadway in Spring 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEvita<\/a> starring Rachel Zegler<\/a> is coming to Broadway<\/a> in spring 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe production, directed by Jamie Lloyd, comes to Broadway after a critically acclaimed West End Run at the London Palladium. Zegler will reprise her role as Eva Per\u00f3n at a Shubert theater<\/a> to be announced. Additional casting has not yet been announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn London, the show famously had a scene in which Zegler would stand on the theater balcony and sing \u201cDon\u2019t Cry for Me Argentina\u201d to crowds gathered outside the theater. Lloyd said that will not be possible in New York (the team has previously expressed concerns about safety) but said it would be restaged for Broadway.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was completely overwhelmed by the incredible response to Evita in London. It is an honor to work with Tim and Andrew, and I\u2019m looking forward to revisiting the production with Rachel, whose stellar performance continues to inspire me. When we started discussing a New York production, it became apparent that our Palladium staging of \u2018Don\u2019t Cry for Me Argentina\u2019 would not be possible. I am really excited to explore a new idea, made especially for Broadway,\u201d Lloyd said.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical, which premiered in London in 1978, reimagines the rock opera in more of a concert setting, with Zegler, as Peron, who becomes the controversial First Lady of Argentina, strutting up and down sets of stairs alongside modern, athletic choreography. This is the second Lloyd Webber musical Lloyd has revamped for Broadway, after taking a minimalist approach to Sunset Blvd.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first Broadway production, starring Patti LuPone, opened in 1979 and won seven Tony Awards, including for best musical. The show was previously revived on Broadway in 2012. And was adapted into a movie starring Madonna.<\/p>\n

\n\tZegler returns to Broadway after starring in Romeo + Juliet, alongside Kit Connor from September 2024 through February 2025. She recently won an Olivier Award for her performance in Evita.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPerforming Tim Rice\u202fand Andrew \u202fLloyd Webber\u2019s brilliant show\u202fin London was a dream come true, but being able to\u202fpartner once again with Jamie to\u202fbring\u202f Evita to \u202fBroadway\u202fis a once in a lifetime opportunity.\u202f I can\u2019t wait\u202f to perform for my home, New York City,\u201d Zegler said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI am delighted to see Jamie Lloyd\u2019s extraordinary production of Evita head to Broadway. It is so exciting to see Tim and my work reimagined in new ways, and the show has a generational talent in Rachel Zegler. I can\u2019t wait for American audiences to experience a production which took the West End by storm,\u201d Lloyd Webber said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evita starring Rachel Zegler is coming to Broadway in spring 2027.\u00a0 The production, directed by Jamie Lloyd, comes…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":761753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[19607,185,171,319,321,1148,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-761752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-broadway","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-evita","tag-rachel-zegler","tag-theater","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116489013971658747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}