Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? Hartford, an heir to the A&P supermarket empire. The original 1969 production was at the Belasco Theatre. It had nine previews and thirty-nine performances. Ron Thompson won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his 1973 theater lead performance in the play "Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?" The play enjoyed a 2002 revival at the Looking Glass Theatre in New York, where it was directed by Michael LoPorto. It is a regular on the community and school theater circuit and in acting classes. The play helped launch the career of Al Pacino, who won a Tony Award for
Evita (musical) with the subject. Tomas Eloy Martinez noted: The lyrics and storyline of the musical are based on Mary Main's biography, "Evita: The Woman with the Whip", which drew heavily upon the accounts of anti-Perónist Argentines. Shortly after the musical appeared, Nicholas Fraser and Marysa Navarro published a more neutral account of Eva Perón's life, "Evita: The Real Lives of Eva Perón", in which they claim that many of Main's assertions (which had influenced Rice's lyrics) were false, such as the suggestion that Eva had first gone to Buenos Aires as the mistress of a married musician, Agustín Magaldi. Instead, they