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'Woman in White' as Musical: The Only Mystery Is Why

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20051118
Author:Peter Marks

If Wilkie Collins's novel "The Woman in White" started one genre, Andrew Lloyd Webber's soggy musical adaptation of it provides sufficient justification for killing off another.

The era of the titillating "sensation novel" was presaged by Collins's hugely popular 1860 mystery. And it is the creative exhaustion of an often drearier form -- the literary musical drama -- that is signaled by Lloyd Webber's latest work, which opened last night at the Marquis Theatre.

The likelihood is minuscule that musical theater actually will take a breather from this grandiose variety of adaptation: The ...

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