EVITA INTERVIEWS:
Part Two - Marti Pellow (Che)
Heading to the Wolverhampton Grand as part of its latest UK tour, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd-Webber's Evita is one of musical theatres most prolific and enduring success stories. In anticipation and celebration of the shows arrival in the Midlands, we headed to the Empire Theatre in Liverpool to interview it's two leads.
In this first part, Kyle interviewed Madalena Alberto, who is playing the titular role of Eva Peron (part one interview can be found HERE). This time round, Kyle chats to Wet, Wet, Wet frontman and growing musical theatre regular Marti Pellow, who plays Che in the touring production...
By Kyle Pedley.
Interview Conducted Thursday 27th June 2013.
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| Marti Pellow as 'Che' in Evita |
Marti Pellow has been many things to music over the course of his now 30 year career. His musical journey began as frontman of the massively successful Wet, Wet, Wet, who rose to pop superstardom in the late 80‘s and early 90’s, most prolifically with their 1994 behemoth ‘Love Is All Around’, which celebrated such a prolonged run in the UK charts that Pellow himself insisted on it’s deletion. After Wet, Wet, Wet (or at least until they reformed in 2004), he went on to celebrate subsequent success as a solo artist with a string of releases. And, as of the past decade, he has gradually become something of a musical theatre regular, notching up major roles on both the West End and Broadway, beginning with manipulative, debonair lawyer Billy Flynn in Chicago.
“I’ll be forever indebted to Kander and Ebb!” Pellow exclaims, praising the musical team responsible for the score and songs of his musical theatre debut, “I fell in love with their score and that was the start of it... and here I am ten years and umpteen musicals later!”
