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THE WOMAN IN WHITE – Charing Cross Theatre
With a focus on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sumptuously melodious score, the new chamber-sized production of The Woman in White avoids the excesses of the original staging, allowing the gripping Victorian melodrama to be enjoyed purely on its own merits.
‘Quasi-Gothic tropes’: THE WOMAN IN WHITE – Charing Cross Theatre ★★★★
The Charing Cross Theatre has been home to a number of musicals in recent years, but this marks the first time a show by Andrew Lloyd Webber has performed there.
‘Quasi-Gothic tropes’: THE WOMAN IN WHITE – Charing Cross Theatre ★★★★
The Charing Cross Theatre has been home to a number of musicals in recent years, but this marks the first time a show by Andrew Lloyd Webber has performed there.
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The emphasis is on Off-West End musicals I’ve seen recently, all of which have things to recommend them – Miracle on 34th Street and The Little Match Girl to get you into the Christmas spirit, The Woman in White to re-evaluate this overlooked Andrew Lloyd Webber and Barnum to see the Menier transformed and mourn the loss of the American circus institution.
THE WOMAN IN WHITE – Charing Cross Theatre
The trouble with The Woman in White is that if you dissect the elements Andrew Lloyd Webber fused into the show, they’re all perfectly fine. You could also add that Thom Southerland’s production flatters the source material with a rich and generous staging and some very lush orchestrations.
THE WOMAN IN WHITE – Charing Cross Theatre ★★★
When The Woman in White debuted at the Palace Theatre in 2004, much of the commentary focused on it being a technological feat, with digital projections in abundance. With this first revival, directed by Thom Southerland, the more intimate setting seems to lend itself more readily to Wilkie Collins’s gothic source material.
THE WOMAN IN WHITE – Charing Cross Theatre ★★★★
Are you a fan of Victorian melodrama? Are you a fan of Musicals? And finally, are you a fan of the work of ’The Lord’ – you know who I mean? If you can answer yes to at least two of these, then get yourself down to the Charing Cross Theatre where they are staging a revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Woman in White.
THE WOMAN IN WHITE – Charing Cross Theatre ❤❤❤❤
What do you get if you combine a richly textured (revised) score by Andrew Lloyd Webber, a strongly convincing cast and a Thom Southerland production? In the case of The Woman in White, the audience is given a strong and emotionally powerful show that captures the audience’s attention and heart.
THE WOMAN IN WHITE – Charing Cross Theatre ★★★
The Woman In White, a play about a vulnerable woman, preyed upon by a powerful man, couldn’t be more timely with strong performances from its cast.
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NEWS: Anna O’Byrne, Carolyn Maitland & Chris Peluso star in first revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Woman in White
Acclaimed Australian musical theatre star, Anna O’Byrne, will take the role of Laura Fairlie in the first-ever revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony and Olivier Award-nominated musical, The Woman in White. Directed by Thom Southerland, the production runs for 12 weeks at London’s Charing Cross Theatre, from 20 November 2017 to 10 February 2018, with a press night on 4 December. …
NEWS: Thom Southerland revives The Woman in White with revised Lloyd Webber score
Thom Southerland will direct the first-ever revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony and Olivier Award-nominated musical The Woman in White, with a revised book and libretto.