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London Theatre Musicals
| The Woman in White | The Woman in White Closed February 2006 from London Theatre Ticket Web | The Woman in White Musical - A dashing young man, employed as the art tutor to two devoted sisters, is stranded at a remote railway cutting. Out of the darkness looms a woman, a mysterious figure dressed in white, desperate to share a chilling secret. He and the sisters soon find themselves trapped in a web of betrayal and greed, the victims of a seemingly flawless crime. Together they will need all their resourcefulness and courage to outwit a charismatic and ingenious villain. As the compelling plot twists and turns low villainy vies with high romance within a world of subterfuge and deceit. Stars Michael Crawford and Maria Friedman. The musical embraces many of the qualities of Victorian melodrama, it also has a pleasing wit and delicacy. William Dudley's set is a master stroke - spectacular, yet ephemeral. There are some lovely performances. Martin Crewes does sterling work as the upright Walter Hartwright, Jill Paice is sweet-voiced the delight of the evening is undoubtedly Michael Crawford as the crafty Count Fosco. As a gorgeous-looking piece of escapism, it works a treat.
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THE WOMAN IN WHITE
Theatre: Palace Theatre
Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1V 8AY.
Nearest Tube: Leicester Square. London Underground Tube Map
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Closed February 2006
Performance Times:
Evenings: Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Matinees: Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30pm
Performance length: 2hrs 30mins approx
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(including booking fee and VAT)
Stalls £57.00 - £63.00
Dress Circle £63.00
Grand Circle £47.00
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| | What's New | Woman in White Closed February 2006 Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit play has announced that the musical at The Palace Theatre will close on 25 February 2006 after a run of 18 months. The hugely successful musical will now be opening on Broadway and will tour the UK before re-opening in the West End in 2007 with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by David Zippel and book by Charlotte Jones, freely adapted from the novel by Wilkie Collins. Directed by Trevor Nunn. Lloyd Webber's music, never before so classical and operatic, becomes hypnotic and slowly unveils its melodies. You have to work for it but it's worth it... The singing, throughout, is excellent, with some thrilling close harmony passages and Friedman and Crawford excelling in a sprightly duet. The Woman in White sees a more mature, experimental Andrew Lloyd Webber. Somehow it worms its way into your gut, and with its final scenes it really grips.
The Daily Mail |
Theatre Review | Woman in White - Andrew Lloyd Webber and his new collaborators have gone for a determinedly lightweight and simplified version of an infinitely complex novel. The director, Trevor Nunn keeps the story moving on the grand scale with a cast of 30... Webber and Nunn have delivered exactly what the West End always needs - a soaring, lyrical, romantic drama whose every scene lends itself as if by magic to precisely the kind of music that Lloyd Webber writes best.
The Daily Express
Andrew Lloyd Webber's best score in years... Trevor Nunn's visually vibrant production... Lloyd Webber has written a particularly good score. It starts with a moment of Britten-like eeriness when Walter encounters the woman in white at a misty railway cutting. It expands into lavishly orchestrated love songs. And it gives Crawford's waddling, heavy-jowled, animal-loving Count Fosco a genuine Rossiniesque showstopper in which he hymns his ability to get away with anything even as a white rat crawls around his collar. Nunn's production also deploys visually stylish designs by William Dudley that use kaleidoscopically shifting projections to convey the story's multiple settings... In addition, David Zippels' lyrics are deft and neat. The Guardian |
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