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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.

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20040826
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Byline: NICK CURTIS

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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