London revival coming for ‘Evita’

“Evita” came full circle Tuesday with Andrew Lloyd Webber announcing plans to revive the ‘70s musical in London with Argentine star Elena Roger in the lead role.

Roger, a fan of Madonna in the film version, was born in 1974, the year that Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice started work on what was to become one of their most successful musicals.

Lloyd Webber said he had no plans to write new songs for the show, which opens in June. But he will take the opportunity to rework the orchestration for the show about the charismatic wife of Argentine leader Juan Peron. She died of cancer in 1952.

“For a long time, I felt that Tim Rice and I didn’t know that much about Latin American music at the time,” Lloyd Webber told reporters. “There is so much more music available to us now than there was in the ‘70s.”