THE TRUTH IS SHE NEVER LEFT YOU
JAMIE LLOYD’S
ELECTRIFYING NEW PRODUCTION OF
TIM RICE & ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER’S
“EVITA”
WILL TRANSFER TO BROADWAY NEXT SPRING
AT A SHUBERT THEATER TO BE ANNOUNCED
STARRING
OLIVIER AWARD WINNER, LONDON STANDARD THEATRE AWARD WINNER,
AND GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD WINNER
RACHEL ZEGLER
AS ‘EVA PERÓN’
“BELIEVE THE HYPE.
THIS IS ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS”
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Today, producers announced that Tony Award and multiple Olivier Award-winning director/producer Jamie Lloyd’s new production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s masterwork Evita will come to Broadway spring of 2027. Olivier Award winner, London Standard Theatre Award winner, and Golden Globe Award® winner Rachel Zegler will reprise her lauded role as ‘Eva Perón’ at a Shubert theater to be announced.
Evita on Broadway will be produced by Jamie Lloyd for The Jamie Lloyd Company and Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals by arrangement with LW Entertainment.
Tim Rice said, “I am thrilled that Broadway audiences will be able to see Jamie Lloyd’s bold and inventive version of Evita. Rachel Zegler is a magnetic ‘Eva’, delivering an electric, charismatic performance.”
Andrew Lloyd Webber said, “I am delighted to see Jamie Lloyd’s extraordinary production of Evita head to Broadway. It is so exciting to see Tim and my work reimagined in new ways, and the show has a generational talent in Rachel Zegler. I can’t wait for American audiences to experience a production which took the West End by storm.”
Jamie Lloyd said, “I was completely overwhelmed by the incredible response to Evita in London. It is an honor to work with Tim and Andrew, and I’m looking forward to revisiting the production with Rachel, whose stellar performance continues to inspire me. When we started discussing a New York production, it became apparent that our Palladium staging of ‘Don’t Cry For Me Argentina’ would not be possible. I am really excited to explore a new idea, made especially for Broadway.”
Rachel Zegler said, “Performing Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s brilliant show in London was a dream come true, but being able to partner once again with Jamie to bring Evita to Broadway is a once in a lifetime opportunity. I can’t wait to perform for my home, New York City.”
Evita made international headlines last summer when it played a sold-out engagement at the London Palladium. It was heralded by critics with a staggering number of five-star reviews and was described by The Telegraph as “a total triumph,” The Standard said, “Rachel Zegler is an absolute smash in Jamie Lloyd’s thrilling revival” and The Daily Express called Evita, “The event of the year. Do not miss it.”
Earlier this month, Evita received two Olivier Awards including Best Actress in a Musical for Zegler. The production was also awarded Best Musical and Best Musical Performance for Zegler at the London Standard Theatre Awards, along with receiving five WhatsOnStage Awards including Best Musical Revival and Best Performer in a Musical for Zegler. It was also recently nominated for five Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards.
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Fuelled by unrelenting ambition and passion, Eva Perón (Zegler) rose from poverty to become the most powerful woman in Latin America. A beacon of hope to some and a threat to others, her star shone brightly as she captured the nation’s heart and divided its soul. Evita features an iconic score including “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina,” “Oh What A Circus,” “Another Suitcase in Another Hall,” and the Oscar-winning “You Must Love Me.”
101 Productions, Ltd. will serve as general managers for the production.
Jamie Lloyd originally directed Evita at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre as part of their 2019 season.
Production dates, additional casting, specific theater, and additional ticketing information for Evita on Broadway will be announced soon.
The London cast recording of Evita, featuring Zegler, is now streaming on all platforms and includes her chart-topping version of “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina,” which reached No. 1 on the Official UK Physical Singles Chart on three occasions. Listen here: https://lnk.to/EVITA-stream. A full-length cast recording is currently in production.
BIOGRAPHIES
Tim Rice (Lyrics) has worked in music, theater, and films since 1965. With Andrew Lloyd Webber he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar,and Evita and has since collaborated with other distinguished composerssuch as Elton John (The Lion King; Aida), Alan Menken (Aladdin; King David; Beauty and the Beast), Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (Chess), and Stuart Brayson (From Here To Eternity). He has also written with Freddie Mercury, Burt Bacharach, Gary Barlow, Marvin Hamlisch, and Rick Wakeman among others.
In 2024-5, Tim toured over 30 towns and cities in the UK and Ireland with My Life in Musicals, an evening of his songs from his 60-year career in show business. In 2025, he was reunited with Andrew Lloyd Webber to write original songs for the comedy play Sherlock Holmes and the 12 Days of Christmas, while Chess returned to Broadway for its first new production there in nearly 40 years.
He was knighted by the late Queen Elizabeth II in 1994 and like Elton, Andrew, and Alan, has won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony – achieving ‘EGOT’ status.
Tim’s interests beyond the entertainment business include boxer dogs, astronomy, and cricket and to indulge the latter he founded his own team in 1973. He is a patron of the Bob Willis Fund (along with Bob Dylan), an enterprise inspired by the late great English cricketer, which is dedicated to raising awareness of prostate cancer. Though he has given up spin-bowling he has no immediate plans to retire from show business.
Andrew Lloyd Webber (Composer) has composed the scores of some of the world’s most famous musicals. When Sunset Boulevard joined School of Rock, CATS, and The Phantom of the Opera he equaled Rodgers & Hammerstein’s record of four shows running simultaneously on Broadway. He is one of the select group of artists with EGOT status, having received Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards.
In New York, hard on the heels of the Tony Award-winning revival of Sunset Boulevard, Lloyd Webber recently opened Masquerade which brings audiences closer than ever before to his global phenomenon, The Phantom of the Opera, and CATS: The Jellicle Ball the Harlem Ballroom reimagining of his iconic musical which recently opened to rave reviews on Broadway.
Lloyd Webber owns six London theaters including the iconic London Palladium and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Reopened in July 2021, the latter was completely restored and renovated at a cost of over $80 million. His mantra is that every penny of profit made from his theaters is put back into the buildings.
Lloyd Webber is passionate about the importance of musical education and diversity in the arts. In Britain, The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation provides 30 performing arts scholarships every year for talented students with financial need and supports a range of projects such as the Music in Secondary School Trust and commissioning research into diversity in theater. In the United States, the American Theatre Wing’s Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative provides grant funding directly to under-resourced public schools for their theater programs and provides scholarships to grade school and university students pursuing studies in theater.
In 2023 Andrew Lloyd Webber partnered with Michael Harrison to produce new productions of existing work and his future musicals. His latest, The Illusionist, will be produced in London in 2027.
Andrew Lloyd Webber was knighted in 1992, created an honorary life peer in 1997, and made a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter by King Charles III in 2024.
Jamie Lloyd (Director) is an award-winning director and producer. His credits for The Jamie Lloyd Company include Waiting for Godot (Hudson Theatre, New York), Evita (The London Palladium – winner of two Olivier Awards and nomination for Best Musical Revival; Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical), Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Royal Drury Lane – nominated for two Olivier Awards including Best Revival), The Tempest (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Romeo & Juliet (Duke of York’s Theatre), Sunset Blvd. (St. James Theatre, New York – winner of three Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical / Savoy Theatre – winner of seven Olivier Awards including Best Director and Best Musical Revival; Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director), The Effect (National Theatre/The Shed, New York), A Doll’s House (Hudson Theatre, New York – nominated for six 2023 Tony Awards including Best Direction of a Play and Best Revival of a Play), The Seagull (Harold Pinter Theatre), Cyrano de Bergerac (Playhouse Theatre/Harold Pinter Theatre/Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York – Olivier Award for Best Revival; Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best Director), Betrayal (Harold Pinter Theatre/Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre – nominated for four 2021 Tony Awards including Best Direction of a Play and Best Revival of a Play; Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best Director), Pinter at the Pinter (Harold Pinter Theatre), The Maids, The Homecoming, The Ruling Class, Richard III, The Pride, The Hothouse, and Macbeth (Trafalgar Studios).
Rachel Zegler (Eva Perón) is a dynamic actress and singer who has already established herself as a trailblazer of her generation. At only 17 years old, Rachel earned the role of ‘María Vasquez’ for Steven Spielberg’s new adaptation of West Side Story out of 30,000 auditions. The film captured Rachel’s motion picture debut and earned her an NBR Award for Best Actress along with a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical.
Most recently, Rachel starred opposite Ben Platt in a limited London engagement of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years, directed and conducted by Brown in celebration of the musical’s 25th anniversary. The show sold out at The London Palladium and Radio City Music Hall. Rachel recently received rave reviews for her performance in Evita at The London Palladium, starring as ‘Eva Perón’ in Jamie Lloyd’s revival of the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, earning her the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Before that, Rachel made her Broadway debut in Sam Gold’s Romeo & Juliet, starring opposite Kit Connor with music by Jack Antonoff.
On the big screen, she was most recently seen as ‘Snow White’ in Disney’s live-action remake of the classic story, making her one of the first Latina actresses to star in a live-action Disney film. She also recently starred in the A24 disaster comedy Y2K, directed by SNL alum, Kyle Mooney, which premiered at SXSW. Before that, she led the highly anticipated prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes as ‘Lucy Gray Baird’ alongside Peter Dinklage, Tom Blythe, and Viola Davis. Rachel has also starred alongside Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu in D.C. Comics’ Shazam! Fury of the Gods, the sequel to the successful predecessor, Shazam!
Rachel has been named a Glamour US/ Glamour UK “Woman of the Year,” is a Forbes “30 Under 30” recipient, and has been recognized by Time Magazine with inclusion in their TIME100 Next list. She has been included in Variety’s annual “Power of Young Hollywood Impact“ list, and The Hollywood Reporter’s “Next Generation” list. She was also named one of “Nine Latinx Women in Hollywood Currently Changing the World” by Elle Magazine.
The Jamie Lloyd Company (Producer) is a multi-award-winning West End and Broadway production company that creates adventurous productions with the best talent in the world. Previous work includes radical reappraisals of Waiting for Godot, Evita, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, Romeo & Juliet, Sunset Blvd., The Effect, A Doll’s House, The Seagull, and Cyrano de Bergerac with casts including Uzo Aduba, Zawe Ashton, Hayley Atwell, Gemma Chan, Jessica Chastain, Emilia Clarke, Paapa Essiedu, Claire Foy, Martin Freeman, Kit Harington, Tom Hiddleston, Tom Holland, James McAvoy, Arian Moayed, Keanu Reeves, Simon Russell Beale, Taylor Russell, Nicole Scherzinger, Sigourney Weaver, Alex Winter, and Rachel Zegler.
Forthcoming productions include Much Ado About Nothing (Broadway).
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Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals (Producer). Michael with Andrew LloydWebber formed their company to produceboth new musicals and revivals of Andrew’s existing work. Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals productions include CATS: The Jellicle Ball, Starlight Express, Sunset Blvd., Evita and the forthcoming CATS in London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, and Jesus Christ Superstar at the London Palladium. Michael’s West End productions: Hello, Dolly!; The Little Big Things; Crazy for You; Titaníque; The Wizard of Oz; Oklahoma!; The Drifters Girl; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein; Gypsy; The Bodyguard; and ten London Palladium pantomimes seen by over 1 million people.
LW Entertainment is an entertainment company with musical theatre at its heart. Founded in 1977 as the Really Useful Group, the company manages Andrew Lloyd Webber’s body of work all over the world and has shared his work with hundreds of millions of people. Today, LW Entertainment builds on that legacy through creative collaboration and thoughtful brand development, ensuring these iconic works continue to evolve and connect with audiences for generations to come.
LW Entertainment shapes the long-term vision for some of the most celebrated titles ever written, including Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Evita, Sunset Boulevard, and Starlight Express. The business partners with industry-leading creative teams, producers, and organizations to deliver ground-breaking experiences and products across multiple entertainment formats – from theatrical productions, immersive experiences and music to film, publishing and consumer products.
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