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Woman in White's steps to the stage; As the new musical prepares for preview, Charlotte Jones, its writer, opens her diary to reveal every detail of rehearsals - from Trevor Nunn's lecture and Andrew Lloyd Webber's throne to Michael Crawford&#

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20040820
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Byline: CHARLOTTE JONES

As the new musical prepares for preview, Charlotte Jones, its writer, opens her diary to reveal every detail of rehearsals - from Trevor Nunn's lecture and Andrew Lloyd Webber's throne to Michael Crawford's fat suit

THE call came through my agent. The producer Sonia Friedman was eager for me to meet Andrew Lloyd Webber to discuss a musical version of Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White. I thought: "Will I really have to read another Penguin Classic?" Since completing my English degree I have had an aversion to anything longer than 400 pages that ...

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