Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals and Jamie Lloyd for The Jamie Lloyd Company today announce the full cast and creative team for Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita. The production, directed by Jamie Lloyd, opens at The London Palladium on Tuesday 1 July, with previews from 14 June, and runs until 6 September 2025.
James Olivas will play Juan Perón opposite the previously announced Rachel Zegler (Eva Perón) and Diego Andres Rodriguez (Che), joined by Aaron Lee Lambert as Agustín Magaldi and Bella Brown as The Mistress / Alternate Eva.
The Ensemble are Carl Au, Gabriela Benedetti, Shakara Brown, Damian Buhagiar, Kyeirah D’Marni, Sally Frith, DeAngelo Jones, Lucas Koch, Natasha Leaver, Michael Lin, Dianté Lodge, Louis Mackrodt, Mireia Mambo, Mia Mullarkey, Perry O’Dea, Alysha Sontae, Monica Swayne, Jon Tsouras and Harrison Wilde, with Myla Carmen, Barney Hudson, Nathan Louis-Fernand, Kirsty Anne Shaw, Ricardo Spriggs and Regan Bailey Walker as Swings. Auora Breslin, Lois Haidar, Siena Merilind-Wu and Ffion Rosalie Williams share the role of The Child.
The creative team are Fabian Aloise (Choreographer); Soutra Gilmour (Set and Costume Designer); Alan Williams (Music Supervisor and Musical Director); Jon Clark (Lighting Designer); Adam Fisher (Sound Designer); Will Burton CDG (Casting Director); Jim Carnahan (US Casting Director); Carole Hancock (Wigs, Hair and Make up Designer); Harry Blumenau (Children’s Casting/ Children’s Administration); Kate Waters (Fight Director); Lily Mollgaard (Props Supervisor); Ingrid Mackinnon (Intimacy Coordinator); Rupert Hands (Associate Director); Amy Thornton (Associate Choreographer); Cory Hippolyte (Resident Director); Paris Green (Resident Choreographer); Rachel Wingate (Associate Set Designer); Kelsh B-D (Associate Sound Designer); Lucía Sánchez Roldán (Associate Lighting Designer); Rachel Woodhouse (Costume Supervisor); Harry Barker (Assistant Sound Designer); Andy Barnwell and Rich Weedon for BW Musicians (Orchestral Management)
For Evita, there will be 5,000 tickets available across the run at £25 exclusively for under 30s, key workers and those receiving government benefits. These tickets will be available across all levels of the theatre, and go on sale at a later date. Further information to be announced.
EVITA
Lyrics by Tim Rice; Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Directed by Jamie Lloyd
The London Palladium
Saturday 14 June – Saturday 6 September 2025
Press Night: Tuesday 1 July, 7.30pm
“The truth is I never left you”
Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s legendary Evita returns to the West End, reimagined by the visionary award-winning director Jamie Lloyd.
Featuring 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.
Fuelled by ambition and passion, Eva Perón rose from poverty to become the most powerful woman in Latin America. A symbol of hope to many Argentines, her star shone brightly as she captured the nation’s heart and divided its soul.
Produced by Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals and Jamie Lloyd for The Jamie Lloyd Company by arrangement with The Really Useful Group Ltd.
Jamie Lloyd originally directed Evita at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre as part of their 2019 season.
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Rachel Zegler makes her West End debut as Eva Perón
Theatre credits include: Romeo + Juliet (Circle in the Square Theatre, Broadway).
Film credits include: Snow White, Spellbound, Y2K, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes(People’s Choice Award for Action Movie Star of the Year); Shazam! Fury of The Gods and West Side Story (NBR Award for Best Actress; Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical).
Diego Andres Rodriguez makes his West End debut as Che
For The Jamie Lloyd Company: Sunset Blvd. (St. James Theatre, Broadway).
James Olivas | Juan Perón
Theatre credits include: American Idiot (Deaf West, Los Angeles); Destiny of Desire (The Old Globe, San Diego); Kinky Boots (Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles); Secret Garden (Ahmanson, Los Angeles).
Television credits include: American Horror Stories (FX); Encore! (Disney+).
Voice over credits include: Bad Kids of Crestview Academy (Momentum Pictures).
Workshop credits include: Boop! (Broadhurst, Broadway).
Aaron Lee Lambert | Agustín Magaldi
Theatre credits include: Hamilton (Victoria Palace); Unicorn (Other Palace); Sister Act (Curve Leicester/UK Tour); Sunset Boulevard (London Coliseum), Miss Saigon (Prince Edward); Sweeney Todd (London Coliseum); Urinetown (St James, Broadway/ Apollo); Sister Act (Aberystwyth Arts); Next Thing You Know (Landor); Shrek (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Sister Act (The London Palladium); Show Boat (Carnegie Hall); Meet John Doe (Goodspeed Opera House); But the Giraffe/Brundibar (Yale Rep/ New Victory, Off-Broadway).
Television credits include: Sing: Ultimate A Cappella (Sky 1); Bernstein – Stage and Screen (BBC Proms).
Film credits include: Miss Saigon: 25thAnniversary Performance (Universal).
Concert credits include: Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton (Royal Albert Hall/ UK Tour); All That Echoes (International Tour).
Training: Yale University & Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Bella Brown | The Mistress / Alternate Eva
Theatre credits include: Hadestown (Lyric); Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends (Gielgud); Rock Follies (Minerva, Chichester).
Commercial credits include: E.ON (Familia).
Training: ArtsEd.
Tim Rice
Tim Rice has worked in music, theatre and films since 1965 when he met Andrew Lloyd Webber, a fellow struggling songwriter. Rather than pursue Tim’s ambitions to write rock or pop songs they turned their attention to Andrew’s obsession – musical theatre. Their first collaboration, The Likes Of Us, did not set the musicals world alight, but their next three works together did – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita.
Tim has since worked with other distinguished composers such as Elton John (The Lion King, Aida), Alan Menken (Aladdin, King David, Beauty and the Beast), Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (Chess), and Stuart Brayson (FromHere To Eternity). He has also written with Freddie Mercury, Burt Bacharach, Graham Gouldman, Gary Barlow and Rick Wakeman among others. Many of his musicals continue to play around the world in a huge variety of productions, big and small.
In 2024 Tim toured England (22 towns/cities) to present an evening of his songs, mercifully performed by top singers and musicians rather than by him, to which he added reminiscence and comment, recalling their creation, success (or rejection) and the joy (usually) of working with great composers. The show, entitled My Life In Musicals, did so well that it is to be repeated in 2025, this time taking in Wales, Scotland and Ireland too.
Sir Tim’s interests beyond music, film and theatre include cricket and he founded his own team in 1973. Heartaches CC has now played over 750 matches and been on playing tours to the USA, Russia, France, Estonia, Hungary, Germany and South Africa. He was President of the world’s most famous cricket club, MCC, in 2002.
He has recently recorded a series of talks for BBC Maestro on Writing and Performing in Musical Theatre. He writes and presents a podcast (entitled Get Onto My Cloud) about his sixty-year career– playing hits and flops, out-takes and number ones.
He dedicates considerable time to several British educational institutions and charities, many connected with sport for disadvantaged children. He is a patron of the Bob Willis Fund (along with Bob Dylan!), an enterprise inspired by the late great English cricketer, dedicated to raise prostate cancer awareness.
He crops up here and there in all branches of the media drawing on his extensive knowledge of the history of popular music. He has won several awards, mainly for the wrong thing or for simply turning up, but since you ask: 1 Emmy, 5 Grammys, 3 Tonys and 3 Oscars, making him an EGOT. His shows have spent more weeks on Broadway than those of any other British lyricist. He was knighted by Her Late Majesty the Queen in 1994. Despite hints, he is not retiring just yet.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber has composed the scores of some of the world’s most famous musicals. Lloyd Webber has had shows running across the world for decades, including continually in London’s West End for 50 years.
When Sunset Boulevard joined School of Rock, CATS, and The Phantom of the Opera he equalled 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.
Lloyd Webber owns six London theatres 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 £60 million. It was one of the biggest projects ever undertaken by a private theatre owner in recent times. His mantra is that every penny of profit made from his theatres is ploughed back into the buildings.
Lloyd Webber is passionate about the importance of musical education and diversity in the arts. 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 theatre.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has composed music for globally significant moments, including Olympic ceremonies and World Cup celebrations. He has been asked to compose for many royal occasions, the most recent being “Make a Joyful Noise”, an Anthem for the Coronation of King Charles III.
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 directs. His credits for The Jamie Lloyd Company include Much Ado About Nothing and The Tempest(Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Romeo & Juliet (Duke of York’s Theatre), Sunset Blvd. (St. James Theatre, New York/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).
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LISTINGS
Box Office: evitathemusical.com / 020 3925 2998
Saturday 14 June – Saturday 6 September 2025
Press Night: Tuesday 1 July, 7.30pm
Rachel Zegler is not scheduled to perform on Monday 14 July, Monday 28 July, Monday 11 August and Monday 25 August 2025. The role of Eva Perón for these performances will be played by Bella Brown.
Access Performances
Audio Described Performance: Saturday 12 July at 2:30pm
Captioned Performance: Saturday 9 August at 2:30pm
BSL Performance: Saturday 23 August at 2:30pm
