She's bare of bounce but you'll warm to this Woman in White.

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20040916
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Byline: QUENTIN LETTS

THE WOMAN IN WHITE by Wilkie Collins adapted by Andrew LloydWebber Palace Theatre, London

FOR so many years he has been derided. Lloyd Webber?

Nah, they said, he's just commercial, derivative, a middlebrow.

Well, last night Andrew Lloyd Webber proved them wrong, although in doing so he will challenge some of his fans to their very limits.

The Woman in White is no ankle swinger of a show. There is little gaiety.

The first, long half is almost entirely bare of bounce.

But by the end of the night this spooky Victorian tale of ...

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