All White On the Night? ; Andrew Lloyd Webber's Ambitious New Musical, the Woman in White, Based On Wilkie Collins's Sprawling Victorian Ghost Story, has a Lot Riding On It. Nick Curtis Meets the Team Behind This Make-or-Break Production

Evening Standard - London › August 26, 2004

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come Wed 15 Sep, Andrew Lloyd Webber will be hoping that The Woman In White is as good to him as she was to her author, Wilkie Collins. First serialised in Charles Dickens's magazine, All The Year Round, Collins's Victorian Gothic tale became a blockbusting, bestselling novel in 1860, spawning a lucrative line of merchandising.

Now 140 years on, Lloyd Webber will open his musical adaptation of Collins's thriller at the refurbished Palace Theatre. It's probably fair to say that his lordship's fingers will be crossed.

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All White On the Night? ; Andrew Lloyd Webber's Ambitious New Musical, the Woman in White, Based On Wilkie Collins's Sprawling Victorian Ghost Story, has a Lot Riding On It. Nick Curtis Meets the Team Behind This Make-or-Break Production

As well as being a fan of the Victorian era, a collector of its art and 13 of its London theatres, Lloyd Webber is a composer in need of a hit. His recent shows, Whistle Down The Wind and The Beautiful Game, flopped. Bombay Dreams, the Bollywood musical he produced, just about broke even before transferring to Br...

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