The Woman in White

Synopsis

A handsome young man is stranded at a remote railway cutting. Out of the darkness looms a woman, a mysterious figure dressed in white, who burns to tell a chilling secret. Two sisters find themselves snared in a web of betrayal and greed, the victims of a flawless crime. Unprotected in a man's world, they will need all their resourcefulness and courage to outwit a villain of overpowering charisma and ingenuity. But they can also rely on the guiding hand of love.

Our Review:

10 October 2005

Though The Woman in White divided critics (and audiences, too, if the opinions on the User Reviews here are a guide) when it first opened last September, my admiration for it has grown stronger with each seeing and, especially, hearing. And I've now been four times in all.

Yet I can also appreciate that it's not for everyone - it will be very interesting to see how Broadway takes to its first sighting of an original Andrew Lloyd Webber musical since Sunset Boulevard opened there over a decade ago, when The Woman in White opens at the Marquis Theatre.

This is one of LLoyd Webber's most daringly ambitious but slowly insinuating shows, too, in which his densely woven score has a near-operatic sweep and fervour that perfectly complements the unfolding of a Victorian, romantically melodramatic potboiler that it is set to.

Trevor Nunn's production has now been almost entirely re-cast since its first opened (only [Edw...

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Latest User Review

81.131.41.237) - 2 September 2006:

I'm surprised this show is getting such bad reviews... And anyone who says Marry bloody poppins is better and then complains about WIW to be long, overdone and overdramatisised... needs to get a little more cultured. This show, although dosnt have little token tunes such as on my own for instance, it still has beautiful and chilling music throughout. Theres nothing like a good piece of gripping drama, who cares about the OTT ness of the nature, its what most theatre is about. Fantastic score and singing. Brilliant. ...

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