Che Guevara on Broadway!!

[provocateur]

http://www.mandypatinkin.net/EVITA/evitaphotos.html

http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_review.../01/010301.html (http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/1997/01/010301.html)


(Che:)
Oh what a circus, oh what a show
Argentina has gone to town
Over the death of an actress called Eva Peron
We've all gone crazy
Mourning all day and mourning all night
Falling over ourselves to get all of the misery right

Oh what an exit, that's how to go
When they're ringing your curtain down
Demand to be buried like Eva Peron
It's quite a sunset
And good for the country in a roundabout way
We've made the front page of all the world's papers today

But who is this Santa Evita?
Why all this howling, hysterical sorrow?
What kind of goddess has lived among us?
How will we ever get by without her?

She had her moments, she had some style
The best show in town was the crowd
Outside the Casa Rosada crying, Eva Peron
But that's all gone now
As soon as the smoke from the funeral clears
We're all gonna see and how, she did nothing for years

(Crowd:)
Salve regina mater misericordiae
Vita dulcedo et spes nostra
Salve salve regina
Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes
O clemens o pia
Hail, oh queen, mother of mercy
Our life, sweetness, and hope
Hail, hail, oh queen
To you we cry, exiled sons of Eve
To you we sigh, mourning and weeping
Oh clement, oh loving one

(Che:)
You let down your people Evita
You were supposed to have been immortal
That's all they wanted, not much to ask for
But in the end you could not deliver

Sing you fools, but you got it wrong
Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long
Your queen is dead, your king is through
And she's not coming back to you

Show business kept us all alive
Since seventeen October 1945
But the star has gone, the glamour's worn thin
That's a pretty bad state for a state to be in

Instead of government we had a stage
Instead of ideas, a prima donna's rage
Instead of help we were given a crowd
She didn't say much, but she said it loud

Sing you fools, but you got it wrong
Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long
Your queen is dead, your king is through
She's not coming back to you

(Crowd:)
Salve regina mater misericordiae
Vita dulcedo et spes nostra
Salve salve regina Peron
Ad te clamamus exules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes
O clemens o pia

(Eva:)
Don't cry for me Argentina
For I am ordinary, unimportant
And undeserving of such attention
Unless we all are, I think we all are
So share my glory, so share my coffin
So share my glory, so share my coffin

(Che:)
It's our funeral too

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/5967/lyrics.html

[Valkyrie]

Good photos! I remember this from the 70's - the Patti LuPone-Mandy Patinkin pairing of Evita and Che. There was also the original West End Production in London with a British Che and Evita!

[provocateur]

Love you, Paris. Thank you.

[Comrade Ceausescu]

the guys face is an insult to che.

[Vinny Rafarino]

What does Mandy Patinkon's face have to so with anything? Mandy Patinkin is a splendid actor. (you probably know him as Indigo Montoya from "the princess bride")

I suggest you all rent the John Sayles fiim "men with guns"...Patinkin was excellent in it.

[Valkyrie]

hi! You're very welcome my dearest provocateur!!!

Patinkin was actually a great Che. He really immortalized che in the minds of thousands of people a decade after his death. The Broadway show had a long run and performed daily, so he was able to play Che as more of the defiant guerrilla, aggressive and angry-- in comparison to the movie portrayal, really a vehicle for Madonna, where Che seems more characterized as the pensive President of the National Bank. Both good, though, Mainly a difference of what you can do in a live show as opposed to film.

http://my.execpc.com/~reva/html7e.htm

[provocateur]

Hey Paris darling:

A few weeks ago I saw a brief part of the Mandy Patinkin Evita broadway show. They had it on PBS as part of the greatest Broadway hits musicals. It was great. I wanted to see more. I went to the library and they had a cd version of it. So that is why I posted this message cause I remembered watching it.

This is it (I think Amazon lets you download a brief snippet:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00...8046026-4143001 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002ORP/qid=1065216091/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/103-8046026-4143001)

The following may contain a brief episode of the Evita musical in DVD version:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...e=ATVPDKIKX0DER (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008G5OY/ref=cm_wl_ovu-pg.1-pos.6/103-8046026-4143001?v=glance&coliid=I2BHXJ5JNHADD7&me=ATVPDKIKX0DER)

[Valkyrie]

Thanks! Good stuff!!!

I've managed to catch some snippets over the years too. I'm wondering if there's a video taped version of it also? Must be a bootleg copy somewhere that would be cool to see.

I've read some things about Webber and Rice's idea to write Evita (Rice's fascination with her tragic "saint-slut/rich-poor" duality portrayed in the media, spurred on by Juan Peron's death) and the ingenious idea to put Che in as her political condemner and symbolic judge--- pure genius, I think. An interesting little account, I'll see if I can find it and send it to you in email!

Anyway, I don't think the musical Evita was all that sympathetic to her as it was originally conceived to be. And it shouldn't be!

[Jesus Christ]

lol that play looks so fuckin funny, wish i coulda seen it
i can just imagine che singing and dancing around the stage w/ backup dancers and shit
:lol: