PR: Evita

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“A LARGE-SCALE, LAVISH, MODERN MASTERPIECE”
(New York Post)

MASTERWORKS BROADWAY SIGNS
THE NEW BROADWAY CAST RECORDING OF EVITA

RECORDING AVAILABLE JUNE 19, 2012

Album Features Grammy Award-Winning Superstar Ricky Martin,
Olivier Award Winner Elena Roger and Tony Award Winner Michael
Cerveris

MASTERWORKS BROADWAY proudly announces the signing of the New Broadway
Cast Recording of Evita. The album will be recorded in April in
anticipation of a June 19th 2012 release and is now available for pre-
order on Amazon.com. Visit MasterworksBroadway.com for more
information as it develops.

Producers Hal Luftig and Scott Sanders present the first new
production of the seven-time Tony Award-winning Tim Rice and Andrew
Lloyd Webber musical EVITA, since it debuted on Broadway over 30 years
ago. The production stars Grammy-winning international pop icon Ricky
Martin as Che, Olivier Award-winning Argentinean actress Elena Roger
making her Broadway debut as Eva Perón—a role that earned her critical
acclaim in the 2006 production in London‘s West End—and Tony Award-
winner Michael Cerveris as Juan Perón. The cast also features Max von
Essen as Magaldi and Rachel Potter as the Mistress. Directed by Tony
and Olivier Award-winner Michael Grandage and choreographed by Tony
Award-winner Rob Ashford, EVITA opened April 5, 2012 at The Marquis
Theatre to rave reviews.

The creative team includes Tony Award-winning Scenic and Costume
Designer Christopher Oram (Red), Tony Award-winning Lighting Designer
Neil Austin (Red), Olivier Award-winning Sound Designer Mick Potter
(Woman In White), Wig and Hair Designer Richard Mawbey (Frost/Nixon),
Projection Designer Zachary Borovay (Rock of Ages), and Music
Supervisor/Director Kristen Blodgette (The Phantom of the Opera),
Orchestrations are by Andrew Lloyd Webber and David Cullen (Sunset
Boulevard), and dance arrangements are by David Chase (Billy Elliot).

EVITA tells Eva Peron’s passionate and tragic story through Tim Rice
and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s most dazzling and beloved score, including
“Don‘t Cry for Me Argentina,” “Another Suitcase in Another Hall” and
“High Flying Adored,” together with “You Must Love Me,” the Oscar-
winning hit from the film EVITA.

After researching the life of Eva Perón for many years, Tim Rice and
Andrew Lloyd Webber released EVITA in 1976 as a concept album with
Julie Covington as Evita and it became a world-wide hit. Soon after,
the production debuted on stage in London's West End starring Elaine
Paige and directed by Hal Prince. The production transferred to
Broadway and opened in 1979 starring Patti LuPone, who went on to win
one of the seven 1980 Tony Awards the show earned. A major 1996 film
of the musical was made starring Madonna as Evita and Antonio Banderas
as Ché. Michael Grandage‘s production of EVITA, which opened in 2006,
took London by storm and garnered critical acclaim for the show and
its leading lady, Elena Roger.

Masterworks Broadway is a label of Sony Masterworks. For email
updates and information on Masterworks Broadway please visit
www.masterworksbroadway.com. For more information on the musical,
please visit www.evitaonbroadway.com/.

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