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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night...(Theater Review)

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From: Newsweek
Date: 20051128
Author:McGuigan, Cathleen

Byline: Cathleen McGuigan

There's plenty of fog and gloom and ominous music in "The Woman in White," based on the classic Victorian thriller, but the fear factor, I'm afraid, is zilch. The first full-blown Andrew Lloyd Webber musical to open on Broadway in more than a decade, it strips Wilkie Collins's elaborate 19th-century page turner down to a skeleton. Two orphaned half sisters--one a beautiful heiress, the other a poor but clever spinster--become victims of the evil Sir Percival Glyde and his Continental co-conspirator Count Fosco. And of course, there's that ghostlike ...

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