Line #13 YMMV/Evita


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2	* AdaptationDisplacement:
3	** ''Evita'' began as a 1976 concept album. It's now mostly recognized as a stage musical, to the point that the ''album itself'' was marketed as the West End cast recording despite none of the main players being in the original West End production.
4	** The song "The Lady's Got Potential" was cut from the original stage version. It reappeared, with very different lyrics, in the movie, so many people think of it as a later addition rather than originally being intended for the play.
5	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Despite the show's reputation for being unrelentingly negative towards Eva Peron, considering the entire musical is (arguably) Che's interpretation of events, this actually comes into play for ''a lot'' of characters. Particularly Eva and Che themselves. Even the majority of the original creative team were divided about the character interpretations the show offered.
6	* AmericansHateTingle: The "Evita" musical usually finds a lot of rejection in Argentina, where the history of the real Eva Perón and Juan Perón is well known, the Peronist party still exists, and the historical inaccuracies are more easily noticed by the public. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ-XR5iwSBM&lc=UgzvbdFOp0Z8ZxUpm1l4AaABAg.8kLbfXgFtp58kQdp2C38KS This comment]] gives more details.
7	* AwardSnub: When someone wins a UsefulNotes/GoldenGlobe for their performance, said performance is considered worthy of an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination almost by default. Music/{{Madonna}} is one of only a few actors in the "Won the Golden Globe but wasn't even ''nominated'' for the Oscar" club, with others including Creator/RobinWilliams for ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'', Creator/JimCarrey for ''Film/TheTrumanShow'' and ''Film/ManOnTheMoon'', Creator/MichaelCaine for ''Film/LittleVoice'' and Creator/NicoleKidman for ''Film/ToDieFor''. (That's pretty august company for Madonna, suggesting that, despite everything, SugarWiki/SheReallyCanAct.)
8	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
9	** "And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out)" is a big and showy number about how luxurious Eva's charity is and the fact that the money is being loosely handled in Peron's corrupt government.
10	** "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" is perhaps the musical's most famous song, Eva's big solo, and includes [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Spanish Chanting]].
11	** "''The Lady's Got Potential''" in the movie.
12	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: "Another Suitcase In Another Hall"
13	** It's a PerspectiveFlip sung by Juan Peron's just-ejected mistress, showing the effects of Evita's triumphant progress for whom it resulted in defeat rather than triumph. Plot-wise, it serves no purpose in the play as the mistress, her existence, or this victory are not brought up again. From a technical perspective, though, it does serve a purpose by allowing the actress playing Eva to rest before one of the show's most demanding numbers, "A New Argentina."
14	** This is averted in the movie where it's sung by Eva.
15	* BrokenBase: It's relatively minor but there's often some arguments over whether the alteration of Che's character (from explicitly being Che Guevara to an anonymous Everyman) in the movie was a good move or a bad one. Made slightly bigger by the fact that before the movie, all productions had Che as the historical revolutionary, while nowadays there seems to be more productions branching out into making him an Everyman. It doesn't help much that both the musical itself and its creators seem to have wildly varying opinions on which interpretation is "correct"...
16	* EnsembleDarkhorse: That girl that sings "Another Suitcase in Another Hall," by virtue of being TheWoobie and having a beautiful song in her one scene.
17	* GeniusBonus: The [[OminousLatinChanting Latin chant section]] of the song "Oh What a Circus," takes its text from the real-life Roman Catholic prayer, the Salve Regina. The original prayer contains a reference to the [[Literature/TheBible Biblical Eve]], known in Latin as Eva.
18	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The stage show is very popular in Germany, of all places, and has been staged and revived there numerous times. There are at least three different German cast albums.
19	* JerkassWoobie: Eva, especially when her health is failing.
20	* MemeticMutation: Any time the Argentina national football team has a painful defeat, it's a given someone will [[LastDisrespects homage the occasion]] with "Don't Cry for Me Argentina".
21	** Even just the image of someone standing on a balcony (particularly anyone with political standing) will be guaranteed to draw at least one comment about the possibility of them bursting into song.
22	* NarmCharm: "I want to be a part of B.A. Buenos Aires -- Big Apple!"
23	** In the movie, the ending of "Goodbye and Thank You" ''reeks'' of this, especially Che's final pose on the last beat of the song. It's so ridiculously cheesy that it's almost kind of adorable.
24	* RetroactiveRecognition:
25	** The concept album had the role of Che performed by "C.T. Wilkinson"...better known as Colm Wilkinson, best known for playing Valjean in ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' and the Phantom in ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''.
26	** In the movie adaptation one of the girls asking Peron for his autograph at the charity fundrasier is an [[UncreditedRole uncredited]] Creator/BilliePiper.
27	** Peron's mistress in the movie is played by Andrea Corr who would go on to form Music/TheCorrs with her siblings.
28	* SugarWiki/SheReallyCanAct: Film critics savaged Music/{{Madonna}}'s acting performances for years until her turn as Eva Perón; she eventually won a UsefulNotes/GoldenGlobe for her performance.
29	* TheWoobie: The mistress that sings "Another Suitcase in Another Hall." sniff Poor girl...
30	** Doubly so for [[Music/TheCorrs Andrea Corr]], who plays her in the movie and gets only one line of the song to herself.

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