The Woman in White

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The Woman in White
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Artist: Woman in White
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2005-11-08
Music Label: Angel Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Prologue
  2. I Hope You Like It Here
  3. Perspective
  4. Trying Not To Notice
  5. I Believe My Heart
  6. Lammastide
  7. You See I Am No Ghost
  8. A Gift For Living Well
  9. The Holly and the Ivy
  10. All For Laura
  11. The Document
  12. Act One Finale
Music CD 2
  1. If I Could Only Dream This World Away
  2. The Nightmare
  3. Fosco Tells Of Laura's Death/The Funeral/London
  4. Evermore Without You
  5. Lost Souls
  6. If Not For Me For Her
  7. You Can Get Away With Anything
  8. The Seduction
  9. The Asylum
  10. Back To Limmeridge
  11. Finale
  12. You Can Get Away With Anything (BONUS TRACK - Opening night performance)

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Free Music Review: Ravishingly beautiful music and a thrilling story
Hit: 5 Stars

The best story ALW has tackled since "Sunset Boulevard" seems to have inspired him to write his best score since then too. After a couple listens I grew to love the soundtrack, and then when I finally saw the show on Broadway in Feb. '06 it cemented my opinion that this is in the Top 5 of all ALW works. A perplexing encounter, a forboding country manor, two whip-smart sisters and their handsome young tutor, conniving villians: the story is dynamite. Two moments in the show never fail to give me goosebumps to this day.

The way they've decided to divide the score on the CD makes it hard to get a sense of the songs. Those looking for radio-ready 3:30 minute numbers will be frustrated. You must let the score unfold. Instead of cutting the score down microscopically like the 45-track CD of "Aspects of Love," they've left it in large passages. Rest assured there are brilliant songs therein. "Perspective," "Trying Not to Notice," "All for Laura," and "Evermore Without You" are among the best. Ironically the weakest song is the one that seems to have been penned with radio airplay in mind: "I Believe My Heart" was recorded by two British popstars and released as a single in 2004, and as ALW songs go it's just...blah. Nothing special. The show's greatest emotions are elsewhere.

I haven't even mentioned the spectacular video-projection sets, which let the story unfold in numerous colorful, dreamlike settings rather than having to take place all in three or four rooms. Each time I listen to the soundtrack I have the pleasure not only of the ravishing music, thrilling story, and clever lyrics but of remembering the unique look of the production on Broadway.

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Andrew Lloyd Webber's sensational new musical. Lloyd Webber has again joined forces with Trevor Nunn, the internationally renowned director responsible for staging some of the most successful musicals of all time, including Cats, Starlight Express, Les Mis rables and, most recently, the London revival of Anything Goes. EMI Classics. 2004.
The Woman in White, Andrew Lloyd Webber's first musical in four years, debuted in London in September 2004. "Freely adapted" from Wilkie Collins's gothic mystery-romance, it tells the story of a young art teacher, Walter Hartright (Martin Crewes), who encounters a mysterious woman dressed in white desperate to tell a secret. But she disappears, and Walter continues on to his assignment teaching a pair of sisters, Marian Holcombe (Maria Friedman) and Laura Fairlie (Jill Paice). Romance develops, but is threatened by the arrival of some shady characters, Sir Percival Glyde (Oliver Darley) and Count Fosco (Michael Crawford).

The score, featuring lyrics by David Zippel (City of Angels), recalls the composer's Aspects of Love, Phantom of the Opera, and Sunset Boulevard, as well as Victorian-themed shows Sweeney Todd and even The Mystery of Edwin Drood. It has some lovely moments, such as "Trying Not to Notice," "All for Laura," "Evermore without You," and "If Not for Me for Her," though for sheer beauty it's no Light in the Piazza. And as with any ALW nearly through-sung musical, a number of the themes recycle themselves to the point where you'll dread the mere mention of certain characters' names. Friedman and Paice give the strongest performances, while Crawford--in his much-anticipated reunion with Lloyd Webber after Phantom--doesn't have a lot to do other than the muggy showpiece "You Can Get Away with Anything." Note that The Woman in White was recorded before a live audience, but "You Can Get Away with Anything" had to be rerecorded in a studio because it was the only number with an audible audience reaction. Crawford's original live performance, however, is included as a coda at the end of the second disc. It's great to have the complete libretto, except that it specifies scene titles while the CD packaging shows track listings and song titles, which means that figuring out where you are takes some detective work. When The Woman in White opened on Broadway in November 2005, Friedman, Paice, and Angela Christian (Anne Catherick) reprised their roles from the London production, while Michael Ball replaced Crawford. --David Horiuchi

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