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Requiem for an Icon: From Concept to Flesh and Blood, the Story Behind Evita by Josh Ferri

After the success of their 1970 concept album-turned-rock musical Jesus Christ Superstar, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice teamed up again to create a rock opera about the controversial political figure Eva Peron, the First Lady of Argentina. The two young collaborators scrapped plans to write a musical adaptation of Peter Pan after Rice became mesmerized by a 1973 radio program about the glamorous blonde known …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:11AM on April 3, 2012

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