Marti Webb and Evita, one of her greatest triumphs
Saturday 14 June 2025, 19:00
St Michael and All Angels Church
7pm with interval
Tickets £20
Marti Webb celebrates her extraordinary career as Queen of the Musicals with songs she has helped make famous. From starring opposite Tommy Steele in Half a Sixpence to Evita and Tell me on a Sunday (the one-woman show written for her by Andrew Lloyd Webber - see them both in the 1980 BBC recording on YouTube) to Nancy in Oliver and Grizabella in Cats... Marti is one of Britain's leading musical stars, hailed by the Musical Theatre Review as a 'genuine showbiz legend.'
In 2022, Jeremy Chapman gave a 4-star review for Marti's performance at The Pheasantry:
"The first Eva Peron I ever saw in those far-off 1970s was Marti Webb, a singer’s singer with the purest bell-like voice and a phenomenal belt which we heard more than once at The Pheasantry in a 26-song trawl through a 53-year career. We all fell in love with her then, even more so later in her one-woman Tell Me On a Sunday triumph, the Lloyd Webber/Don Black mini-masterpiece that spawned two pop-chart hits, the title song (which Webb used as her soaring, swooping encore) and ‘Take That Look Off Your Face’. One reached No. 2, the other No. 3. Webb didn’t miss a beat on either. As for Evita, Webb was originally signed up to be Elaine Paige’s stand-in while the star took a holiday, then did the title role twice a week when Paige came back, finally taking it on full-time."
