LONDON NEWS
By Logan Culwell-Block
March 14, 2025
Fresh off his Sunset Blvd. Broadway opening, Lloyd is revisiting the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical after directing it in 2019.
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Broadway Romeo and Juliet and screen West Side Story star Rachel Zegler will lead the previously announced West End return engagement of Jamie Lloyd’s Evita revival, set to play The London Palladium June 14–September 6. The production has also shifted its opening night, which will now be July 1.
“Evita has been such an important musical to me since I was a little girl, when my dad and I would sing ‘Don’t Cry for Me Argentina’ together on my back patio,” shares Zegler in a statement. “The opportunity to bring Jamie Lloyd’s singular, visionary ideas to life onstage is an honor unlike any other. The stage has always felt like home to me, and I can’t wait to make my West End debut in such great company.”
Zegler, who will be just 24 when the revival takes the stage, will be among the youngest actors to take on the role in the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical, almost a decade younger than the incendiary Argentinian politician-activist-actor was when she died in 1952. Zegler’s West Side Story co-star Ariana DeBose had been rumored to be taking on the role, though ultimately scheduling issues took that off the table.
The fresh West End run, which follows the staging’s 2019 premiere at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, comes at a heady moment for Lloyd Webber musicals. The Tony- and Olivier-winning composer’s musicals have been steadily getting increasingly daring new revivals, chief among them Lloyd’s current Broadway revival of Sunset Boulevard. A West End transfer starring former Pussycat Doll…
