Rags to riches: Eva Perón was catapulted into the limelight from ignominious beginnings - Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images But as riveting as the show’s ...

Elaine Paige played Eva Perón in the original West End production of Evita, which opened at the Prince Edward Theatre on 21 June 1978 and closed on 8 February 1986, after 3,176 performances.

The five-episode, 60-minute series is inspired by the youth of legendary Eva Perón, second wife of Argentine president Juan Domingo Perón.

PEOPLE can confirm that Zegler will play Eva Perón in the London revival of the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber 1978 musical, Evita, about the life of Eva Perón, the controversial second wife ...

The reburial in the new, $1.1 million mausoleum in the suburb of San Vicente -- where he and his second wife, Eva, often spent weekends -- was Perón's third.