Who is this Santa Evita?
Evita, West Side Story, and two kinds of sainthood
“Who is this Santa Evita?” asks Che, as Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1978 musical begins.
In 2025, the answer is Rachel Zegler. To witness her Eva Perón is to encounter one of those rare performances that feels destined for theatrical legend. It is to be doubly starstruck: by Perón’s charisma and Zegler’s artistry, fused completely, deployed to breathtaking eff…