Producers Jamie Lloyd and Michael Harrison announced additional casting for Lloyd’s new production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s masterwork Evita. Joining Olivier Award^® winner, London Standard Theatre Award^® winner, and Golden Globe Award^® winner Rachel Zegler as ‘Eva Perón’ will be her critically lauded co-stars from the London production, Olivier Award nominee Diego Rodriguez as ‘Che’ and James Olivas, who will be making his Broadway debut as ‘Juan Perón.’

Bella Brown, who received a WhatsOnStage Award nomination for her portrayal of ‘The Mistress’ and was the alternate ‘Eva Perón’ at The Palladium in London will transfer to Broadway with the production.

The production will also feature Ángel Lozada as ‘Agustín Magaldi.’

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Producers announced that Tony Award and multiple Olivier Award-winning director/producer Jamie Lloyd’s new production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s masterwork Evita will come to Broadway spring of 2027. Olivier Award winner, London Standard Theatre Award winner, and Golden Globe Award^®winner Rachel Zegler will reprise her lauded role as ‘Eva Perón’ at a Shubert theater to be announced.

Evita on Broadway will be produced by Jamie Lloyd for The Jamie Lloyd Company and Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals by arrangement with LW Entertainment.

Tim Rice said, “I am thrilled that Broadway audiences will be able to see Jamie Lloyd’s bold and inventive version of Evita. Rachel Zegler is a magnetic ‘Eva’, delivering an electric, charismatic performance.”

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Winners of The Stage Debut Awards 2025, in association with Netflix, were revealed on September 28 at a star-studded ceremony taking place at 8 Northumberland Avenue, London. Rachel Zegler scooped the prize for Best West End Debut Performer, one of the evening’s most coveted awards, for her tour de force performance as Eva Perón in Jamie Lloyd’s triumphant revival of Evita. She follows in the footsteps of previous winners Jodie Comer, Rose Ayling-Ellis and Jack Wolfe.

Hosted by comedy royalty and actor Julian Clary in front of some of UK theatre’s most influential figures, Zegler’s win – the people’s favourite – was the only award category to have been decided by the public. The starry shortlist also included Zegler’s Evita co-star Diego Andres Rodriguez; both Tosin Cole (Netflix’s Supacell) and his co-star Heather Agyepong for Shifters; Kat Ronney for Titanique; The Devil Wears Prada’s Georgie Buckland; Clueless the Musical’s Emma Flynn and Samuel Brewer in Oedipus.

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Fresh from her star-making turn as Eva Perón in Jamie Lloyd’s revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice‘s Evita – a performance that earned her extraordinary reviews and became one of the most talked-about moments in London this year – Rachel Zegler returns to the iconic London Palladium to take centre stage once more.

On October 5th, the critically acclaimed actress and powerhouse vocalist returns to London for a one-night-only concert spectacular: Rachel Zegler – Live at the London Palladium.

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Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals and Jamie Lloyd for The Jamie Lloyd Company today announce Diego Andres Rodriguez as Che in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita. He joins the previously announced Rachel Zegler (Eva Perón), with full cast and creatives to be announced. 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.

Jamie Lloyd said today, “Before he even graduated, Diego made his professional debut as Artie in our production of Sunset Blvd. on Broadway, in which he also understudied and played the leading role, Joe Gillis. He is an incredible young actor and a fantastic vocalist. We’re so thrilled he will be making his West End debut in Tim and Andrew’s iconic musical.”

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Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals and Jamie Lloyd for The Jamie Lloyd Company today announce that Rachel Zegler will make her West End debut as Eva Perón in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita, with full cast and creatives to be announced. 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.

Rachel Zegler said today, “Evita has been such an important musical to me since I was a little girl, when my dad and I would sing “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” together on my back patio. The opportunity to bring Jamie Lloyd’s singular, visionary ideas to life onstage is an honour unlike any other. The stage has always felt like home to me, and I can’t wait to make my West End debut in such great company.”

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