Ariana DeBose Reveals She’s In Talks To Star In ‘Evita’ At The London Palladium; Party Notes From The Golden Globes — Breaking Baz
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Ariana DeBose sure had some exciting news to share last night. “Fingers crossed,” come this summer she will star in the Jamie Lloyd-directed revival of the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Evita at the iconic London Palladium, she told me exclusively.
The Oscar-winning star confirmed whispers I’d been hearing on the grapevine, although she cautioned that she has to clear it first with producers and partners of other projects that she’s working on. “We’re 70% there,” DeBose told me as we chatted at the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group party at Lavo, on Sunset Boulevard.
Universal was celebrating the cinematic and box-office achievement win for the musical Wicked and Peter Straughan’s best screenplay win for Edward Berger’s Focus Features movie Conclave.
There was no getting away from the fact that Universal’s The Wild Robot, one of the year’s most enchanting films, had hoped to pick up the trophy for Best Animated Film but it lost out to indie darling Flow.
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