Don't Cry For Me Argentina - Patti LuPone - Evita Not long after becoming Argentina's new First Lady, Eva Perón started making highly emotional speeches, the intensity of which Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wanted to capture with "Don't Cry for Me Argentina". The song was composed to appear at the opening and near the end of the show, initially as the spirit of the dead Eva exhorting the people of Argentina not to mourn her, and finally during Eva's speech from the balcony of Casa Rosada. | J