The run closed June 26, 1983
- Opened
- September 25, 1979
- Closed
- June 26, 1983
- Performances
- 1,567
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Broadway Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 14th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Evita 6 more that season
| 1980 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2001 | Sondheim Theatre Transfer | |
| 2008 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2012 | Marquis Theatre Revival · André Ptaszynski | 337 perf. |
| 2012 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2025 | London Palladium Transfer |
Who was in it81 named
Seda Azarian
Dennis Birchall
Peppi Borza
Robin Cleaver
Anny de Gange
Mark East
Megan Forste
Bridget Francis
Nicole Francis
Teri Gill
Rex David Hays
Carol Lugenbeal
Paula Lynn
Morgan Mackay
Sal Mistretta
Jack Neubeck
Marcia O Brien
Michael Pastryk
Davia Sacks
James Sbano
David Staller
Michelle Stubbs
Robert Tanna
Clarence Teeters
Susan Terry
Phillip Tracy
David Vosburgh
Mark Waldrop
Sandra Wheeler
Brad Witsger
John Leslie Wolfe
Nancy Wood
Christopher Wooten
John Yost
Tammy Amerson
Claudia Asbury
Susan Cella
Frank Cruz
David Cryer
Kim Darwin
Patti D Beck
Al Decristo
Scott Fless
Robert Frisch
Carole Garcia
Lilo Grunwald
Robert Heitzinger
Robert Hendersen
Colette Sena Heyman
Ken Hilliard
Keith Keen
Robert Logan
Amy Niles
Joanie O Neill
Dawn Perry
Martie Ramm
Cassie Rand
Morgan Richardson
Drusilla Ross
Allison Smith
James Stein
Wilfredo Suarez
Claude Tessier
Leslie Tinnaro
Ian Michael Towers
16 of these 81 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 65 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters5 roles recorded
Patti LuPone Eva Perón
Mandy Patinkin Che
Bob Gunton Juan Perón
Mark Syers Agustín Magaldi
Jane Ohringer Perón's Mistress
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Harold Prince
- Choreographer
- Larry Fuller
- Producer
- Robert Stigwood
- Orchestrations
- Hershy Kay
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 7 from 11 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin famously did not get along during the run. Their backstage tensions fueled the onstage antagonism between Eva and Che with electric chemistry.
- Lionel Bart’s Oliver!, which opened in London in 1960, held the West End long-run record for a musical until overtaken by Jesus Christ Superstar, and its Broadway facsimile—also directed by Peter Cole and designed by Sean Kenny—was the longest running musical import until overtaken by Evita. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 225
- As the decades passed, music itself emerged as the primary method of telling a musical’s story, and the public became accustomed to sung-through musicals (Evita and Les Miserables ) Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 3
- Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita, Cats, Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard) and Tim Rice were introduced to Broadway with this show. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 314
- In this category are Sammy Glick of What Makes Sammy Run/?, Joey Evans of Pal Joey, Eva Peron of Evita, and Harry Bogen of I Can Get It for You Wholesale. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 165
- In 1983, an Off-Broadway production and London run starring Evita superstar Patti Lupone (doubling as Moll and Sister Mister) and directed by John Houseman, who produced the premiere, generated a second complete recording and a television broadcast. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 153
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Evita at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.