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FLORENCE Lacey has no tears for Argentina; it
has made her a star.

By NANCY WEATHERLEY

Lacey plays Eva Peron in
Andrew Lloyd Webber and
Tim Rice’s hit musical Evita
which opened last night at
Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

The leading lady has had
this role for 4 and one half
years in 150 cities all over
North America. She has
played in outdoor stadiums
and small theatres but her
enthusiasm hasn't waned.

“*This is the most exciting
part ever written for some-
one like me’’ she says of her
role, Partly it is the relief of
finding a role that is fresh
and different from the usual
stock musicals of thirty years
ago. ‘I’m sort of a younger
leading lady. I'm not ready
for Mame or Dolly."’

‘This is someone who ac-
tually lived.’’ And the char-
acter is not a standard sweet
heroine, ‘It takes a lot of
my imagination to find posi-
tive things about her’? Lacey
says Of her real-life role
model. ‘‘She has a villainous
side (to wer - she’s very
human.’’

But Lacey also wishes she
could have met the woman
who always loved the com-
mon people she came from.
“She got women the vote
and did a jot for Argen-
tina.”

While focusing on one

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and Lacey is clearly stage-
struck. She also recognizes a
depressing reality in theatre.
Jobs are scarce on Broad-
way, and a common ques-
tion is ‘Is Broadway dying
the way Vaudeville did?’ But
1 won't believe that’? says
Lacey.

She admits, however, that
a shortage of jobs has
brought a mostly Broadway
cast and crew ov the touring
company. Because of that

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“It's the best company {'ve
ever worked with."" she says,

Lacey plans to stick with
the theatre in spite of its
troubles, She says its plays
like Evita ‘which is a new

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form for musicals’ that will
save the theatre.

Lacey got her first’ big
break when Rock Hudson
introduced her to Jerry
Herman who debuted her in

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She has since played in
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