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
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