🎶 Rachel Zegler’s 'Evita' Performance Has Audiences Divided

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda gam Nation. There's this new West End
production of Avita. When you think of Avita, really, I
know it's about Eva Paran Argentinian stuff, staff and you
know this one big song Don't Crime mea famously sung

(00:21):
by Madonna in the film. Well, interestingly, in this new production,
the woman playing a Vita is Rachel Ziegler. She was
the one who's been in that controversial new version of
snow White.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Oh yeah, and.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
She's got a great voice, great production. Everyone says she's fantastic,
but it is there's an unusual production piece in here.
The tickets are five hundred and twenty dollars and something
is annoying the audiences that are going and it's this.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
What's wrong about.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
An iconic song? Yes, but it's the balcony grabbing all
the attention. Halfway through the latest revival of Ivita, the
show's biggest song is performed by star Rachel Zegler outside
the London Palladium and then live streamed back to the
audience inside.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
So she goes out to the balcony to sing the
one big iconic song that the whole audience is gearing
up for, and people outside who have paid nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Get it for free.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Get it for free while you're sitting in the audience,
having paid, as I said, five hundred twenty bucks for
a seat, and you're watching it on television.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
But that's the whole point. What do you mean, Well,
that's the whole that. You know. She's singing to the people,
to the masses, the big crowd.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
You say, I'm the people, I'm the mass.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
I paid the money. Do you not see though, the
it's for the hoy PELOI not for the richies inside.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, but I'd still be ripped off. Maybe what they
need to do is have one of those theaters that
spins you as an audience outside and you're outside.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
David Copperfield or something like me when I went to
Joseph and the Technicolored Dreamcoat, except I was outside in
the cab coming home.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
But you know, as I said, there's one giant song,
and that's what they've done with it. It would be
like going to see Cats, which is famous for this song,
and that's Sheila, as you would say, racks off outside
and you just have to watch the other performers that
lick themselves on a window sills.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
He sat on the balcony, having a vape in the
litter box