“Tasteful” is not a word that springs to mind when thinking about Eva Peron, and it shouldn’t when it comes to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical Evita either. But that’s exactly the quality that best describes the new Broadway revival, the first since the work’s premiere. Understated and underwhelming, it sacrifices the original’s bombast and flash for a substance th…
SOURCE: Scheck on the Arts at 06:14AM on April 13, 2012