![]() What do you hope audiences get out of seeing this play? Connection – to me, to the person next to them, to the memory of an extraordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life.Holding on to that intensity and maintaining the highest stakes possible as each scene tumbles forth is wildly challenging. Tell us about the challenge of playing your part: I think the biggest challenge is burning voice, body and soul at an absolute fever pitch for two hours.What is Evita all about? This is Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s masterful musical take on the illegitimate, dirt-poor 15-year-old Argentinian girl who, driven by ambition and blessed with charisma, was a starlet at 22, the president’s mistress at 24, the First Lady at 27 and dead at 33.And she is so smart! She adapted the script for the Ang Lee version of Sense and Sensibility – and it’s perfection. She’s so yummy to watch – fully present, strong and beautifully vulnerable. I want to follow her around for a week and peek in her freezer. Ideal scene partner: Emma Thompson (pictured below and right).I see a fighter who uses street sense, wiles and alliances to gain the mobility she needs to realize her dreams. I see a passionate woman who wants to matter, wants to be loved. When I look at Eva, for instance, I don’t see a power-hungry manipulator of men. I have more empathy for them, and less judgment. Encountering my best and worst self also has invited me to look at my stage characters differently. I am often raw, I doubt my goodness and question my strength. Every day I wrestle with a delightful and terrifying mix of fear, love and humility. The current model has no walls, many doors – and seriously leaky faucets. What was the role that changed your life? My role as a mother changed me as a performer.Habitual bath-taker, banana-bread maker and horror-movie watcher. Twitter-sized bio: Lover of life, stories, music, family, heavy weights, hikes, hugs and cake pops.What have you done for us lately? I played Betty Haynes in the Arvada Center’s White Christmas.College: BFA in Drama from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.(She also played that role on a national tour.) Off-Broadway credits include Lingoland and How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. ![]() She has also appeared locally at the Arvada Center ( White Christmas, A Man Of No Importance, Curtains, Miracle On 34th Street, 1940s Radio Hour) and as Nellie in the Lone Tree Arts Center’s South Pacific. She is known to Denver Center audiences for Sweeney Todd Forbidden Broadway A Christmas Carol The Doyle and Debbie Show and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. Lauren Shealy plays the fated First Lady of Argentina Eva Peron in Lone Tree Arts Center’s Evita through April 29. Jesse Sharp and Lauren Shealy in Lone Tree Arts Center’s ‘Evita.’ Photo by Danny Lam.
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