EVITA
London Palladium, West End. June - Sept ‘25
Director: JAMIE LLOYD
Choreographer: FABIAN ALOISE
Set Design & Costume: SOUTRA GILMOUR
Lighting Design: JON CLARK
Sound Design: ADAM FISHER
photos: Mark Brenner
Reviews
Fabian Aloise’s dancers are near-ceaselessly striking poses, stomping and displaying attitude in unison across the steps…Yet even they are not the busiest people on the show. Step forward deputy stage manager Jo Dunne calling the literally hundreds — possibly thousands — of cues demanded by Jon Clark’s incandescent, show-defining lighting.
A deserving Tony-winner for “Stranger Things,” Clark starts with acidic side-light cutting through more smoke than a burning building. That gives way to scalding down-lighting, dazzling banks of brightness and pulse-quickening chases, thrillingly meshed to the score played by Alan Williams’ razor-sharp, roof-raising, 18-piece band via Adam Fisher’s sound design…. The buttons Clark slams on numbers leave other shows reeling. David Benedict, Variety
