Only two more nights of EVITA at Horace Greeley High School

November 20, 2009
by Christopher Schraufnagel

The Horace Greeley High School Theatre and Music Departments present Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice’s EVITA, again tonight Friday, November 20, after the Freshman Pasta Dinner and Silent Auction, and Saturday, November 21 at 8:00 p.m.

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.

Tickets are $10, and can be preordered by visiting the Theatre Home Page: http://hg.ccsd.ws/webpages/cschraufnagel/boxoffice.cfm (password: “schrauf” and click on Box Office) off the HGHS Homepage, or by emailing Mr. Schraufnagel at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).  Beginning November 9, tickets will be on sale in the cafeteria throughout the school day, or after school at the Theatre Office (adjacent to the Auditorium.)  Tickets will also be available at the door, and will go on sale one hour before the show begins. For any additional information, please call the Theatre Office at 861-9425.

Christopher Schruafnagel is the head of the Theatre Arts Department at Horace Greeley High School and the director of Evita. 

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