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Although he's not much of a fan of the "overrated" Hamilton, Donald Trump has, according to the New York Times, "been a regular presence over the years at openings on Broadway, where he has said he prefers musicals and saw Evita as many as six times." What are we to make of his love for the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical, which debuted on Broadway in 1979 and was made into a 1996 film starring Madonna and Antonio Banderas?

Evita tells the story of the rise and fall of Eva Perón (née Duarte), beginning with her penniless origins, continuing through to her political career as the first lady to President Juan Perón of Argentina, and ending with her death from cancer. The musical frames the story of the Peróns through the eyes of a sardonic everyman narrator, Che. The show wrestles with Evita's allure, simultaneously admiring her political genius and depicting her as gaudy, tasteless, and having made her career on her back. It also portrays her as the primary author of Juan Perón's sham populism.

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