Breaking Baz: ‘Snow White’ Star Rachel Zegler Signs To Play Eva Perón In ‘Evita’ At London Palladium
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Rachel Zegler, star of Steven Spielberg’s screen version of West Side Story and the soon-to-be-released Disney live-action Snow White, will make her London theater debut as Eva Perón in a revival of the garlanded Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Evita, director Jamie Lloyd confirmed to Deadline today.
The show will play at the fabled London Palladium for a limited 12-week summer season, with performances from June 14 through September 6.
Reached in New York where he’s meeting with actors being considered for other key roles, an excited Lloyd described Zegler as a “phenomenal talent” who will “blow the roof off the London Palladium.” Complex negotiations to bring Zegler, an American of Columbian and Polish descent, to the West End were completed a few days ago.
She will be among the highest-paid stars on the London stage this season. Lloyd told me that he and Zegler met for a coffee in Manhattan, specifying that it was out of the way, “downtown,” where there was less chance of them being spotted.
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