Another Suitcase in Another Hall singer Barbara Dickson in 1976 for the "Evita" concept album that eventually became the stage musical; Dickson did not appear in the musical itself. Rice and Webber had already enlisted actress Julie Covington to sing the part of Eva, hence they were on the look-out for other supporting vocal personnel. They found about Dickson who had recently starred in the Willy Russell musical, "John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert", and had charted on the UK Singles Chart with her cover version of the David Whitfield and Frankie Laine song, "Answer Me" (1976). Dickson and her manager, Bernard Theobald, had
Another Suitcase in Another Hall Juan's teenage mistress (played by Siobhán McCarthy) after she is "kicked out" by his future wife, Eva. According to director Michael Grandage, the story took the "edge off" a supposed fairy tale like interpretation of Eva and Juan, unveiling their ambitions and cut-throat personality. From a production point-of-view, it also allowed Grandage to show ruthlessness of Eva, when Juan allows her to throw his "mistress" away. The girl is ultimately left on the streets with nowhere to go, and there she sings the song. It is a particularly poignant melody that should play with an audience's emotions. The mistress clearly