Campus News

Theater to Present Evita

10/31/15

The Minnesota West Community & Technical College Theater Department will present Evita on November 20 and 21 at 7:30 p.m. and on November 22 at 2:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Theater on the Minnesota West, Worthington Campus. 

The Fall Theater Production of Evita is directed by Eric E. Parrish with choreography by Sydney Place-Sallstrom. Tickets will be available at the door for $10 adults/$5 students. Minnesota West students, staff, and faculty are free with Minnesota West ID.

In Evita, Argentina's controversial First Lady is the subject of this dynamic musical masterpiece. As an illegitimate fifteen year old, Eva escaped her dirt-poor existence for the bright lights of Buenos Aires. Driven by ambition and blessed with charisma, she was a starlet at twenty-two, the president's mistress at twenty-four, First Lady at twenty-seven and dead at thirty-three.

Eva Peron "saint to the working class, reviled by the aristocracy and mistrusted by the military" was destined to leave a fascinating political legacy unique in the 20th-century. Told through a compelling score that fuses haunting chorales with exuberant Latin, pop and jazz influences, Evita creates an arresting theatrical portrait as complex as the woman herself.

Some adult situations and language.

The Minnesota West Foundation will be hosting a reception in the lobby after the opening performance on Friday, November 20.  Join us for some treats with an ethnic, Argentinian flair, and meet the cast and crew of Evita!

Make plans to attend the Fall Theater Department Production of Evita. 

Link to Fall Theater Production Evita poster

Lyrics by Tim Rice
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Presented through special arrangement with R&H Theatricals and Two Knights Rights Limited.