Ignore the whingers and haters. Rachel Zegler is an absolute smash in Jamie Lloyd’s thrilling revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s improbable hit musical about Argentina’s populist, postwar first lady Eva Perón.
The 24-year-old packs an impossible amount of slyly insouciant star power into her tiny frame and proves to have both stage presence and a passionate, expressive vibrato — amazingly, this is only her second major professional theatre role, after playing Juliet on Broadway last year.
