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About The Woman in White - Andrew Lloyd
Webber
The Woman in White is a novel written by Wilkie Collins and
published in 1860. It has now been made into a West End musical
by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is considered to be to the first
mystery novel.
The Woman in White novel
The Woman in White is widely regarded as the first in the
genre of 'sensation novels'. It follows the story of two sisters
living in Victorian England with their selfish, uninterested
uncle as their guardian. Marian Halcombe is the elder of the
two sisters, and a remarkably ugly woman, but with courage,
strength and resourcefulness in abundance. The younger, her
beautiful half-sister Laura Fairlie, is engaged to a rich
man by the name of Sir Percival Glyde.
The story begins when the hero, art master Walter Hartright,
arrives to tutor the two sisters, and he and Laura rapidly
fall in love. As Walter and Marian together delve deeper into
the mystery of a strange woman dressed all in white, uncover
the secret history of Sir Percival Glyde, and engage in a
battle of wits with the enigmatic 'Napoleon of Crime' Count
Fosco, the plot threads combine to produce a fast, thrilling
story, leading this particular type of fiction to be described
as 'sensation'.
The Woman In White is also an early example of a particular
type of Collins narrative, in which several characters in
turn take up the narrative of the story, often hearing one
incident told from several points of view. This creates a
complex web, in which the readers are unsure of who can, and
cannot be trusted, and features heavily in many of Collins's
writings, including The Moonstone.
The Woman in White was first published as a serial in the
magazine All the Year Round, created by Collins's close friend
and literary mentor Charles Dickens. Following the success
of the serialisation of The Woman In White, Collins also serialised
The Moonstone, credited with being the first true detective
story, in the same magazine.
The Woman in White Musical
Original logo for the musical 'The Woman in White.' Copyright
RUG.Musical adaptation of the book opened in London's West
End, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by David Zippel,
and book by Charlotte Jones, freely adapted from the novel.
Directed by Trevor Nunn, it opened Wednesday, 15 September
2004 at the Palace Theatre in London. It gained attention
for its set design, which employed projections rather than
traditional scenery. The Broadway production opened on 17th
November 2005 at the Marquis Theatre to mixed critical reaction.
This followed much publicity after the show's star, Maria
Friedman, who had created the role of Marian Halcombe in the
original London production, was diagnosed with breast cancer
during previews, however she underwent treatment to return
for the Broadway premiere.
Hollywood
Reporter Review about The Woman in White
The Woman in White
By Ray Bennett
Bottom line: Big, melodramatic Andrew Lloyd Webber musical
with marvelous singing and a fine comic turn from Michael
Crawford.
Palace Theatre, London
Through April 1
Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-awaited new musical is old-fashioned
and newfangled at the same time, but the two potentially conflicting
elements fuse pleasingly to make a show that will rank with
his best-loved hits.
The traditional part is in Lloyd Webber's fondness for bold
and sweeping melodrama with near-operatic songs and performers
singing their hearts out. The new bit is in director Trevor
Nunn's use of vast, Cinerama-style video screens to provide
sets and backdrops from mansion houses to grand staircases,
from a railway station to wide-open spaces.
The effect of the screens appears awkward at first, but Nunn
cannily builds in a giggle for the audience right away --
as if to show that he knows all about it. When drawing teacher
Walter Hartright (Martin Crewes) first shows up at the Fairlie
country house, Limmeridge, in Victorian England and meets
Marian Halcombe (Maria Friedman), they go up a huge staircase.
The two performers merely walk on the spot, and it's left
to the video image to suggest that they are climbing. It prompts
brief nervous laughter in the audience, but once the two arrive
at the top, the trick has worked perfectly and the videos,
created by production designer William Dudley, never appear
false again.
The show is based on a thick Victorian thriller written by
Wilkie Collins, and it has all the elements required for a
dark and sinister story: rape, kidnapping, insanity and murder.
With book by Charlotte Jones and lyrics by David Zippel, the
show has all the suspense that a musical can bear, which is
not a lot, and carries on to an unsurprising finish with great
flair.
What Lloyd Webber understands as a composer is the essential
quality of longing. His characters long for friendship, long
for love and long for happiness, and inevitably they are thwarted
for the longest time.
Teacher Walter encounters a mysterious woman in white on
his way to Limeridge, and when he meets his charges, Marian
and her half-sister Laura Fairlie (Jill Paice), he is struck
with how much the mystery woman resembles Laura.
The two young ladies both fall in love with Walter, but the
teacher has eyes only for Laura -- a situation that becomes
complicated when she fulfills a promise to her late father
and becomes betrothed to an unctuous individual named Sir
Percival Glyde (Oliver Darley).
Glyde's motives are suspect, especially as his partner in
crime is a flamboyant medical man from the Continent named
Count Fosco, played by Michael Crawford, back in the West
End where he became a star in "The Phantom of the Opera."
Crawford is unrecognizable in puffed-up makeup and costumes
that make him appear alarmingly like the late Robert Morley.
Like Morley, Crawford is a first-rate clown and his big number,
"You Can Get Away With Anything," is a guaranteed
showstopper.
The music is melodic throughout and the singing top rate,
with Friedman and Crewes both shaking the rafters and soaring
sweetly. "The Woman in White" may not be quite the
crowd-pleaser that was "Phantom" and "Cats,"
but it will run for a very long time.
THE WOMAN IN WHITE
Presented by Sonia Friedman Productions Ltd. and the Really
Useful Theatre Company Ltd.
Credits:
Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics: David Zippel
Book: Charlotte Jones
Based on the novel by: Wilkie Collins
Director: Trevor Nunn
Production/video designer: William Dudley: Lighting designer:
Paul Pyant
Movement director: Wayne McGregor
Sound designer: Mick Potter
Cast:
Marian Halcombe: Maria Friedman
Count Fosco: Michael Crawford
Anne Catherick: Angela Christian
Walter Hartright: Martin Crewes
Laura Fairlie: Jill Paice
Sir Percival Glyde: Oliver Darley
Mr. Fairlie: Edward Petherbridge
From http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000652965
