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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20040919
Author:Kate Bassett

Andrew Lloyd Webber was born in the wrong century. He is really a Victorian: the sentimentality and the lavish spectacle are just so him, and he and The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins's sensational 1860's novel - were surely made for each other. You may be thinking this as you pass one of the composer's pre-Raphaelite paintings, hung in the theatre foyer, then as you behold the show's romantic heroine, Jill Paice's Miss Fairlie, surrounded by the gothic excesses of Limmeridge - the manor which her avaricious suitor, Sir Percival Glyde, desires.

That said, one should underline that Sir ...

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