Zegler, 23, will follow in the footsteps of Elaine Paige and Patti LuPone, who played Eva Perón in the original West End and Broadway productions, respectively.

Disney has decided to muffle its upcoming premiere of the live-action(ish) remake of Snow White by holding a red carpet without journalists. On its face, this might not seem all that strange, given how many big studios seem to increasingly favor influencers over traditional press — and the fact that with this series of remakes revisiting Disney’s animated classics as lavishly garish mixtures of live-action and computer animation,