Led by 'Sunset Blvd.' director Jamie Lloyd, the musical will play a limited 12-week run this summer at the London Palladium

Rachel Zegler has been cast as Eva Perón in Jamie Lloyd’s revival of Evita at the London Palladium this summer

Actress and singer Rachel Zegler is to star in Sir Tim Rice and Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita at the London Palladium. The 23-year-old will play the role of Eva Peron when the Jamie Lloyd-directed production, which follows the story of Peron as she rises from poverty to become the most powerful woman in Latin America, opens on July 1.