Oh What a Circus

The beautiful Luca Toni isn't playing this afternoon, although Italy is facing the Czech Republic, presumably in the hope they won't make such a hash of it as they did against the USA. Unfortunately, I'm stuck in an office in Elephant and Castle so won't be watching it. I almost videoed it, but then realised that would be a bit sad...

The new production of "Evita" is surprisingly good, although I was disappointed that Che Guevara seems to heve developed an American accent. Then again, Che Guevara's presence in the whole thing is a bit spurious given that at the time he was riding around Chile and Ecuador on a motorcycle with a less-gorgeous sidekick, curing lepers and looking suspiciously like Gael Garcia. One comment I must share with you, though, was that of the woman sitting in front of us who, after generally slagging off Eva Peron and saying how Britain was Great for "seeing her for what she was: a whore!" asked, "so...why didn't she marry Che Guevara in the end?"

Er..

Anyway, it's a toss-up between Garcia and Antonio Banderas, but whichever you choose, nobody else can match either of them on the Guevara front, except maybe the real thing, and he's a bit too, wel, dead to appear in a musical.

But really, if you get a chance, go and see it. The singing is good, the set is brilliant, and it doesn't drag on long enough to make you start looking at her watch (although it does take her a considerable amount of time to die, but then, it always does in musicals.)