Original London Cast - Woman In White / O.L.C.R. (Eng)
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Track List: Woman In White / O.L.C.R. (Eng)
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Disc 1:
- PrologueDownload & Buy
- I Hope You'll Like It HereDownload & Buy
- PerspectiveDownload & Buy
- Trying Not To NoticeDownload & Buy
- I Believe My HeartDownload & Buy
- LammastideDownload & Buy
- You See I Am No GhostDownload & Buy
- A Gift For Living WellDownload & Buy
- The Holly And The IvyDownload & Buy
- All For LauraDownload & Buy
- The DocumentDownload & Buy
- Act One FinaleDownload & Buy
Disc 2:
- If I Could Only Dream This World Away
- The Nightmare
- Fosco Tells Of Laura's Death/The Funeral/London
- Evermore Without You
- Lost Souls
- If Not For Me For Her
- You Can't Get Away With Anything
- The Seduction
- The Asylum
- Back To Limmeridge
- Finale
- You Can't Get Away With Anything (Opening Night Performance)
Album Details: Woman In White / O.L.C.R. (Eng)
- Release Date:
- 12/14/2004
- Label:
- Angel Records
- UPC:
- 094634191128
User Reviews: Woman In White / O.L.C.R. (Eng)
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Pro Reviews: Woman In White / O.L.C.R. (Eng)
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Andrew Lloyd Webber, who scored the biggest hit of his highly successful career adapting Gaston Leroux's 1911 horror/fantasy novel +Phantom of the Opera to the musical theater, returns to familiar ground with what is described as a "freely adapted" musical version of Wilkie Collins' "classic" (and, more important, out of copyright) 1860 novel The Woman in White, considered the first fulllength example of detective fiction in English literature. Collins' tale is a gothic melodrama with an innocent heroine married off to an upperclass villain and a terrible secret revealed only in the final moments. Lloyd Webber, an industry unto himself, tends to employ different librettists and lyricists on each project; here, Charlotte Jones does her best with the pennydreadful plot in her book, while Broadway veteran David Zippel (+City of Angels) writes efficient, occasionally witty words for the cast to sing. (Typically, the twoCD album, with a running time of two hours and 24 minutes, contains a complete audio rendering of the show, not just song highlights.) That cast sings as well as it can, although only Michael Crawford (Lloyd Webber's original Phantom) gets a juicy part, mincing around the stage in a fat suit and an Italian accent in the part of Count Fosco, the villain's charming associate. For his part, Lloyd Webber turns in one of his less tuneful but more consistent scores. The trouble is simply that the story is a poor choice for musical theater. It has too many main characters in fact, there are actually three heroines and, despite Crawford's efforts, it is much too dreary. Lionel Bart managed to enliven the work of Collins' contemporary, Charles Dickens in +Oliver, his musical version of +Oliver Twist, but Lloyd Webber has either picked the wrong book to adapt or failed to make it sufficiently compelling as a musical. (The recording was, for the most part, made live on opening night in London, with some studio recordings substituted when there was too much audience reaction. One example is retained as a bonus track, with Crawford's secondact tour de force, "You Can Get Away with Anything," considerably hammed up from the studio version. At least it's amusing.) - William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide |
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Pros: music,cast,songs,story, lyrics
Cons: dodgy logo?
QUITE SIMPLY, THE THEATRE WORLD WAS WAITING FOR THE NEXT GREAT ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER MUSICAL, AND HAS BEEN SINCE PHANTOM, FINALLYM IT'S HERE. WITH A RICH SCORE AND PERFECT MIXTURE OF COMPLEX OPERATIC MUSIC, CREEPY EERIE ORCHESTRATIONS AND TRADITIONAL LLOYD WEBBER MELODIES, THIS SCORE LENDS ITSELF PERFECTLY TO THE STORY IT TELLS, AND THE STELLER CAST, INCLUDING MICHAEL CRAWFORD AND MARIA FRIEDMAN DELIVER PERFORMANCES TO BRING DOWN THE HOUSE. A MUST HAVE ALBUM.