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Andrew Gans

Andrew Gans

May 20, 2026

5:25
[laughs]
5:26
But with Evita, eventually I convinced my dad to get tickets, and I remember he drove my mom and me into the city.
5:34
And, uh, I got to see Patti LuPone before she left.
5:39
And I think when I was a kid, I would get a little bored in the dialogue scenes between the songs, but Evita had no dialogue.
5:47
And I'm not really sure there's any better staging of a musical than Hal Prince did for that original production of Evita.
5:57
It seemed like it was this huge set, but it was deceptively simple with just a few set pieces that moved on and off, and there was also that giant film screen thatdescended occasionally.
6:09
And for like a young kid, there was also these soldiers that skipped around the stage.

5 MINS LATER

11:22
It now has this revival, and why don't you just tell the folks out there what Chess is about?

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