Evita - Highlights Original London Cast 1978

Highlights from the Original London Production of "Evita" (1978), starring Elaine Paige as Evita.
Contains pieces of the following songs:
* Oh, What A Circus
* On this Night of A Thousand Stars
* Buenos Aires
* I'd Be Suprisingly Good For You
* A New Argentina
* Don't Cry For Me, Argentina
* High, Flying, Adored
* Rainbow High
* And The Money Kept Rolling...(in and out)
* Waltz for Eva and Che

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Evita
• Elaine
• Paige
• Original
• Londen
• Cast
• Recording
• 1978
• First
• Production

[VANITYBONET]

Lupone version arrangement of Evita is the best...This sound to much like the awful concept album same with madonna version

[lestatsluver666]

The original is the concept album with Julie Covington EP would not have got the role if Julie had been willing to do it on stage. I love the album

[MrJohnyGoatzyn]

@HouseOnSunset Ooh yeah! If you get a chance i would love to hear it! I've never heard that one

[HouseOnSunset]

@MrJohnyGoatzyn As I said before, they didn't sound very Latin to me. The sounded like very dull rock songs. I could've tolerated the new orchestrations more if the keys and tempo hadn't been slowed down to the point of sucking all the spirit and energy out of the compositions.

[HouseOnSunset]

@MrJohnyGoatzyn It's funny, I never felt that the movie captured the spirit of Argentina and the music sounded to me like a half-baked rip-off of the concept album. I also felt that the movie was photographed in a very dull and ugly manner and the slow pacing killed the energy of Tim Rice's original libretto. To me, the only version to accurately (and elegantly) capture the Latin theme of the music is the 1980 Madrid production, I can upload the vast album for you if you want to see what I mean.

[MrJohnyGoatzyn]

@HouseOnSunset Interesting.. what exactly makes you say that? The thing is.. the movie made the music fit with the actual background of the story, with latin south american style music instead of just showtunes. That's kinda something they had to do for the movie if they wanted it to fit the ethnicity of the characters.

[HouseOnSunset]

@MrJohnyGoatzyn We must be living on different planets, because I think the movie version of "Buenos Aires" is the absolute worst one. (On par with the 2001 Finnish cast recording and the 2009 Austrian cast recording.)

[MrJohnyGoatzyn]

@HouseOnSunset What i mean by the dynamics is, take for expample the drumbeat of Buenos Aires, in the original just a straight driving beat, but in the sound track its a four on the floor latin style off time beat. Much more exciting! And more powerful horns!

[MrJohnyGoatzyn]

@HouseOnSunset I'm sorry, i'm wrong. Music cannot be rated or judged. It's all a matter of personal taste. From my musical backgroud, the Evita movie soundtrack is a dynamic, exciting musical. And if that's what you're used to, then you listen to this.. instrumentally it's just a giant let down. But if you're basing it on the vocal performance then i can see the hook of the original.

[HouseOnSunset]

@MrJohnyGoatzyn No, seriously, what are you snorting? The movie version is KNOWN for its lousy orchestrations, subpar singing and bland acting! (Not that the OLC is much better, mind you, but at least Elaine Paige has much more energy and bigger pipes than Madge.)