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THE IoS PROFILE Andrew Lloyd Webber: Don't cry for him We may not have loved him, but we had to acknowledge his extraordinary success. Now his latest West End musical, `The Woman in White', has been critically panned and his star is waning. Ne

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20040919
Author:Alison Roberts

Taken collectively, they do not make happy reading. This week's first night reviews for Lord Lloyd-Webber's new musical The Woman in White, an adaptation of the Wilkie Collins thriller (itself hugely popular in its day) are almost without exception downbeat and disheartening. Despite the top-notch cast led by Maria Friedman and Michael Crawford, the experienced direction from Trevor Nunn and innovative design by William Dudley, the pounds 3.75m show simply does not appear to sing. "A terrible disappointment," sighed the Telegraph; "... clunky rhymes and .. weak characterisation," judged The ...

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