An exciting revival of ‘Evita’ at Shakespeare Theatre
‘Evita’Through Oct. 15Shakespeare Theatre CompanyHarman Hall610 F St., N.W.$35–$134Shakespearetheatre.org When Eva Perón died of cancer at 33 in 1952, the people’s reaction was so intense that Argentina literally ran out of cut flowers.
Mourners were forced to fly in stems from neighboring countries, explains out actor Caesar Samayoa. For Samayoa, playing President Perón to Shireen Pimental’s First Lady Eva in director Sammi Cannold’s exciting revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Evita” at Shakespeare Theatre Company is a dream fulfilled.
As a Guatemalan-American kid, he had a foot in two worlds. Samayoa lived and went to school in suburban Emerson, N.J. But he spent evenings working at his parents’ botanica in Spanish Harlem.
During the drives back and forth in the family station wagon, he remembers listening to “Evita” on his cassette player: “It’s the first cast album I remember really hearing and understanding.
