The Side Chick: She may be second in his eyes, but she's number one for us.
there is a plaintive number sung by a character known only as the Mistress, shortly after Eva has taken her place in Juan Peron’s affections. “I don’t expect my love affairs to last for long/Never fool myself that my dreams will come true,” the Mistress bemoans, adding, “all my words desert me/So anyone can hurt me and they do.
In the popular imagination, the side chick — the other woman trope, as personified by the forlorn Mistress in Lloyd Webber’s musical — is a wretched figure of consternation, a target of both our opprobrium and our pity. Yet she seems to be having a bit of a redemptive moment these days, thanks to the confluence of both popular culture and real-world factors.
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