Evita - "I'm Only A Radio Star" - Comparison Video

[@joshietoshie]

CAROLINE BOWMAN INCREDIBLE HOLY-

[@bethanyirene7120]

As I listen to this compilation, I keep thinking that Lady Gaga would nail this role if she ever wanted to cross over to Broadway.

[@beaellie9766]

From Wikipedia for Marla Schaffel: "...In 1995, she starred in the title role of Evita, as part of the national tour in order to promote the film..."

[@operathephantom]

No Elaine!?

[@anthonyquarles5762]

Patti 👑

[@davidpayne697]

Marti webb was always one of my favourite Evitas but I never knew her belt was THAT good... Thank you so much for this.

[@fergusmurray1828]

My thoughts exactly, I’d love to hear the entire show with her.

[@TDangora]

Marla Schaffell did a national tour in the 90s

[@ThomBoleyn]

I saw that tour in Mobile, AL. She was AMAZING!!

[@aaskyguy]

Patti!!!!!

[@russellwright1324]

So glad you did this. A lot of meticulous detective work!

[@gordyCA]

Does it make me an old grump that I think all of the Original Broadway and London performers are in an entirely different league than later successors to the role?

[@gordyCA]

(That being said, do you have the whole show with Christina Decicco?)

[@KevinAliveAndWell]

@@gordyCA not stupid enough to put the entire thing on KZbin. But yes, I do. There are 2 videos with her if you know where to look.

[@tatemitchell1479]

If it does, I'm a 20-year-old grump!

[@bookemdano7567]

Patti LuPone is the ONLY one who’s plays Evita perfect. She can belt with no effort where pretty much everyone comes off screechy and yelling. And on a side note... I find it interesting that in the crappy broadway revival, the alternate Eva and the understudy are both brunette durning this scene when Elena Rogers is blonde in her scene. And in the original Broadway staged version and the tours which followed, Eva is blonde at this point in the story.

[@beaellie9766]

Patti digs into the character and brings that acting into the vocals. She has guts and a "take not prisoners" approach to this (and many other) roles. I think this "gutsy"-ness is what makes her stand out from all the others.

[@gordyCA]

YOU ARE DOING G'D'S WORK!

[@marcoqueme2868]

Things Jessica Lea Patty did: THAT

[@oliviahutton8273]

Where did you manage to find Caroline Bowman's?

[@KevinAliveAndWell]

llandonwashere.weebly.com

[@tty3g]

I thought Loni Ackerman was in LA production. With Jon Cypher. I didn't know she played Eva on Broadway too.

[@phillgreenland2390]

Tetsuya Kobayashi Ackerman was standby/alternate on Broadway.

[@fergusmurray1828]

Phill is wrong. Loni opened the LA Production and then replaced Patti’s replacement (Derin Atlay) in the Broadway Production.

[@patimuse]

@@fergusmurray1828 I recall in Patti's book, she opened LA prior to Broadway with mixed reviews, then to Broadway with mixed reviews again but it became a hit show so when they opened the LA/National Tour with Loni Ackerman, she complained she got nothing but rave reviews riding on Patti's coattail success. Was Patti a victim of bias or was she exaggerating the reviews? She also seemed paranoid about her alternate/understudy undermining her.

[@fergusmurray1828]

patimuse That sounds about right, Hal bullied her and Mandy about how good the LA/Tour Cast was.

[@patimuse]

@@fergusmurray1828 Maybe Loni Ackerman was better or even liked more by the creative team, but Patti was the best one available when the production came from UK & Loni wasn't in the earlier auditions to give her competition or even the Equity politics of rejecting Elaine Paige's transfer to US may have plagued Patti's casting as 2nd choice. By her own admission, Patti struggled with the role & she purposely fought to do the opposite of what Elaine had done in London including holding the arms differently during "Don't Cry.....", a small difference, but she likes ranting about it all the time like it was a genius gesture that Elaine didn't consider. She didn't want to be a carbon copy of Elaine, but that's the business of Broadway & Hal was recreating the London success, not a new version of it.... Patti was technically a replacement to original Elaine when Patti wanted to claim that "original" for her resume. It also frustrates me when actors say they created the role on 1st tour - 23nd tour or in the bus & truck company or in Hoboken, clearly actors' marketing version of "brand new & improved, with 10% more soap." Replacements can be better than the original or just plain more cooperative is enough to earn favor from the director like Loni may have done; Hal is allowed to favor one over the other who might have been pissy about recreating the same moves done by original Elaine; I understand Patti's paranoia at the time, but she nabbed the role first in US & went on to a stellar career bc of it; I just don't understand her recent bitterness towards other performers which IMHO sours her own legacy & may explain why she now has that permanent sneer on her upper lip.

[@haydenanderson8804]

Thank you so much for not including Madonna

[@tatemitchell1479]

Fr 😅

[@ThomBoleyn]

Do you have the full Marla Schaffel? I've been searching for YEARS! This is missing Florence Lacey who was phenomenal in the role.

[@KevinAliveAndWell]

I don't actually. I ran across some clips on Tumblr equaling about 5 minutes. Very upsetting, would love a complete recording. That's not to say one doesn't exist.

[@marisolgonzalez9400]

I’m sorry but the bit of Madalena Alberto is wrong. It’s not her. It’s one of her alternates in the tour, either Hannah Grover or Michelle Pentecost. Thank you.

[@billyflynn2]

Well they are all stunning really so it comes down to personal preference - Caroline Bowman is amazing but then of course who doesn't like the huge belt of Patti?

[@tatemitchell1479]

Marti Webb in 1980 is surprisingly good here! I like her tone. Patti will always be number 1 tho!! Poor Elena. She really strained her way through this role. I get the whole "cultural casting" thing, but she really shouldn't have forced her larynx like that. She just hasn't the range, and that's not an insult, I'm only saying she's better suited to lower songs that many of these other women couldn't handle.

[@fergusmurray1828]

Do you have a full Marti Webb bootleg?

[@veryjason]

No Elaine Paige :(

[@KevinAliveAndWell]

No, sorry. I downloaded the London cast recording specifically for this compilation but I'm guessing it was a highlights album, it did not have this song.

[@veryjason]

+Kevin Brazil there's a live recording of the original London cast of Art of the Possible...

[@operathephantom]

There's actually three London bootleg recordings featuring Elaine....

[@KevinAliveAndWell]

Which I don't have, or else I would have included it.

[@marcboltonlee977]

I don't think thats Madelena Alberto. I'm pretty sure it's Michelle Pentecost the alternate Eva.