Patti Lupone was the first Evita in the U.S.:
Evita had opened the night before to some of the most excoriating reviews in Broadway history. The word on the street was that no show could remotely survive this venomous onslaught more than a few weeks….
One of the worst reviews was John Simon’s in New York magazine. “Stench is a stench on any scale,” he wrote in a revue [sic] which was unequivocal in implying that we were glorifying fascism….
The extraordinary thing was that ultimately these appalling reviews didn’t matter. Evita went on to receive eleven Tony nominations and win seven of them including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Actress for Patti [Lupone].
Unmasked, Andrew Lloyd Webber, pp. 297-299
From a much more recent production, the money rolls in:
I just love this one (sorry that I’ve used it before):
And the inimitable Antonio Banderas:
One more: