It’s a new week at the London Palladium theater, where the Evita cast is collectively shaking off a bug. “We were really limping across the finish line this past week,” says James Olivas, who plays leading man Juan Perón. “We had every swing on and people doing split tracks, which we’ve never done before, just to get the show up and running. Everyone’s incredibly talented, so it worked out.”

To his point, the chaos was not in any way obvious to their audience. Reviews of Jamie Lloyd’s West End revival of Evita , the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice that first came to the stage in 1978, have highlighted the cast’s chemistry and kinetic energy. It’s a modern and adrenaline-spiking retelling of Argentina’s most famous first lady’s story—played by Rachel Zegler—with big rock

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