Don’t cry for Sam!

ACTRESS Samantha Pauly (right), a Puerto Rican-Native American from Chicago, has been picked by director Jamie Lloyd to play Eva Peron (left) in his new production of the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Evita, that will run at the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park from August 2.

Lloyd has cast Trent Saunders as Che and Ektor Rivera as Juan Peron. Fabian Aloise will do the choreography.