EXCLUSIVE: The fact that it’s not safe for Evita star Rachel Zegler to reprise her West End coup de théâtre outdoor balcony performance of “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” for its anticipated Broadway transfer “is alarming in what it says about America,” says her co-star Diego Andres Rodriguez, who played Che in director Jamie Lloyd’s celebrated revival of the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
Rodriguez, who appeared in the New York production of Lloyd’s Sunset Boulevard, adds that ”it’s worrying” that the animosity felt towards Zegler in some quarters could lead to harm if she re-enacted that one sizzling scene in an open space.
When the show ran at the London Palladium last summer, hundreds of passers-by would gather outside the landmark theater to witness Zegler singing live, for free, while her performance was beamed onto screens to the audience inside.
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