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From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20060121
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ANDREW Lloyd Webber's West End musical The Woman In White is to close.

The curtain will come down at the Palace Theatre after 19 months, with the final performance on February 25.

The show, adapted from the Wilkie Collins novel, will begin a year-long national UK tour in January 2007. The show opened on Broadway last November, where it is playing to packed houses.

Producer Sonia Friedman said: "A completely new musical is a rarity these days and, as is so often the case with Andrew Lloyd Webber's work, it was a ground-breaking piece of musical storytelling."

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