One weekend down, three to go.

So we opened the show this past weekend; it went very well!

I'm still VERY tired and slightly nauseated from lack of sleep, but that'll fade as the week progresses. I hope.

I'll still have to miss Dragon*Con this year, but I consider it as saving money to stay at a better Con hotel next year. Sounds good. Now- get me into the Hyatt, yeah? SRSLY.

Anyone got a Frakking HUGE Argentinean Flag?

'Cause we could really use one...
We're going to paint one on canvas for the show, but scoring (rent/borrow, what have ye) a real one would be a coup.

Like 10 feet plus tall. Seriously.

There should be some sort of prop clearinghouse website where small/medium theatres could rent/borrow each other's HUGE props and/or set pieces (Audrey IIs, Sweeney Todd barber chairs, Greased Lightning cars, et alia) to cut down on production costs.

But that would probably be too logical for theatre. *sigh*

More controversy in regards to Eva Duarte de Peron

Awwww... See Evita get them while they're young...


Another article about Eva that brings up several valid points about how dichotomous her image is, even today; from the Boston Review: A Descamisada Diva

An article from Stamp World magazine: Evita On Stamps

An Alternate News view of Peronist Politik from Australia's New Dawn Magazine : The Message of Evita

A Salon Magazine Article from 1996: The Mystery of Evita

There are TONS of articles out there. Avoid Wikipedia. I suggest using Google and beginning at the END of the search results instead of the top-ranked searches.

Always, ALWAYS take the information with a grain of salt. And bear in mind that the truth can be found in distasteful places. One of the most thoroughly researched articles I ever found was on a racial extremists' site. I felt sick clicking the link, but the article itself had translated some of the Movie magazines written in Argentina during Eva's film career and gave better insight into how the public viewed her during her transition from film to politics.

New Show- Weber's Evita at SLT

Back to the chorus- I have a feeling there won't be a lot of character work done for us non-named members, but I'm going to haul out my papers on Eva Duarte de Peron and start doing some dramaturgy.
Anyone who's interested can follow the process and get some historical perspective.

First off- the one thing we should never lose sight of as cast members is that this was a frightening and tumultuous era to be living in Argentina for a lot of different social, racial and ethnic groups.
Links to follow later, but there was a reason so many Nazis fled to the protection of Post-WWII, Peron-era Argentina. Mussolini and Franco are mentioned in brief passing during Rainbow Tour, but the true extent of the extremism of the politics of President Peron are never studied in depth.
Seriously, guys, you need to realize that this musical hit new heights of glossiness when it came to the characterization of Eva and Juan Peron.

Links:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Argentina.html

http://www.studyspanishargentina.com/argentina/history.asp

http://www.economics.uci.edu/docs/colloqpapers/s07/Alston.pdf