[actionjaxson91]

Vote!!!!

[Mara]

I choose Patti because I like her voice better. It's got more substance. Madonna doesn't really do it for me.

[Radames's_Angel]

Lupone, Her voice is awesome, and also Madonna had her voice altered (watch it in surround sound and you'll hear it...)

[Sweeney Hyde]

Madonna was horrible. However, as I have only every heard LuPone, I'm not really at liability to say.

[jessiemil42]

Patti of course!


how can you even compare them??

[norayouadora]

[aboutface]

I voted for Patti. There was no comparison.

[jcstar]

I voted for Madonna because her "Lament" destroys me everytime.

She has an uncanny resemblence to Eva Peron. Madonna also had similar experiences that Eva had to deal with.

And, contrary to popular belief, her voice was NOT altered. Some keys were changed, but that doesn't matter much.

Now, I enjoy Patti as well. She is dynomite in the role, no question. I just enjoyed the film because I was able to talk to other high school kids when it came out... and \I didn't feel like an outsider when discussing EVITA. Because people who didn't knoqw Brioadway or the West End (or Eva Peron) would talk to me about it.

Andy.

[thewordisno]

Oh, I wish there were an Elaine Paige option
There not being one, I must go for Madonna.

[WelshGal05]

I would say Elena Roger, but as she is not listed I will vote for "Madonna".

[adamjthompson]

Madonna for me. She did an amazing job, IMHO. Antonio Banderas stole the show, though.

[DanUSGS]

Eh it wasn't Patti's best.

[Salome]

Madonna destroyed the role. she made Eva sympathetic. thats like making a musical about Hitler and making him a nice guy.

Madonna couldnt act the role and vocally thy had to adjust far too many songs.

Patti owns the role. always will.

[duchessina]

[Salome]

Banderas was wonderful as Ches...not a good as many but miles ahead of david essex.

[SuperKabob]

[DontDoSadnessxx]

Patti LuPone for me. There will always be shows that I'll say i disliked her in but this show always remain true.

My parents saw Evita with her. AHHH
im still jealous to this day.
=]

[ilovebway]

Patti for me as well.

[Salome]

[Flamy]

Anybody, but not Patti Lupone (for me).

[mantarnia]

[jcstar]

[SuperKabob]

Yes, but there are other ways of adressing the audience of the movie than staring at them...at least the way he was doing it.

[Yip1982]

For me it would be a choice between Patti and Elena Roger. It's true that Patti has the pipes to belt her part as needed but I think that Elena Roger's part is growing on me.

[tortallcit]

Madonna. Maybe it's just because I saw the movie before I heard the stage musical... but I've always preferred it. Especially "Buenos Aires".

[moongoddess82]

I think they both had their strengths and their weaknesses... definitely Madonna's voice was not up to the part as-written but I liked her slightly more demure, vulnerable Eva. However, I seriously dislike Patti's acting and I only like some of the songs from the show in her voice.

I think "A Waltz for Eva and Che" explains beautifully how Eva should be portrayed- by that I mean fallible, lead by suggestion/mass opinion at times and having a desire to be needed/"loved" . I think the show has things intentionally written in to make her very human. It makes Eva more real to give her a characterization that the audience can at least, to a point, sympathize with.

Every human being has a "good" side, no one is purely evil... de-humanizing someone by seeing them as pure evil so that we can put them and their actions into a category we are able to understand and handle does not change this fact. Please don't mistake this for my condoning either Eva's or Hitler's actions- I am simply saying that to play Eva as pure evil with no sympathetic qualities would be less realistic. By the same token, if Eva is "likeable" as an overall character. then perhaps that might be taking it too far the other way.