Do cry for her, London. Rachel Zeglerisawhite- hot smash

Ignore the whingers and haters. Rachel Zegler is an absolute smash in Jamie Lloyd’s thrilling revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's improbable hit musical about Argentina's populist, postwar first lady Eva Perón.

- NICK CURTIS THEATRE CRITIC

The 24-year-old packs an impossible amount of slyly insouciant star power into her tiny frame and proves to have both stage presence and a passionate, expressive vibrato — amazingly, this is only her second major professional theatre role, after playing Juliet on Broadway last year.

The already infamous moment when she performs Don't Cry for Me Argentina from the Palladium balcony to a crowd outside relayed to paying punters in the auditorium on a screen — is a bravura piece of directorial panache and social commentary from Lloyd. This is a finessed version of his stripped-back Evita at the Open AirTheatre in 2019, the showmanship and expressionistic sensualism amped up, the whole thing supercharged by Zegler’s white-hot presence.