Music : The Woman in White |
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Rating: - * Pitiful lyrics and score, aimless story and zombie-like performances ... Andrew Lloyd Webber has sunk to new lows with this boring adaptation of the novel. The music just goes on and on with tuneless melodies and mock-classic arrangements. The lyrics are just rambling sentences with little rhyme or reason. He hasn't written a good score sense "Sunset Boulevard." He needs to find a good lyricist and stop plagarizing Puccini. Rating: - * One of Andrew's best! ... If you enjoy Andrew Lloyd Weber, then Woman in White is for you. The music and story are great. The cast (including Michael Crawford) sing with tremendous energy. Rating: - * Great story ... I love this story - I really enjoyed reading the book. I enjoyed some parts of this soundtrack more than others - there are a couple of songs I really loved and a few themes that I got really tired of by the end. I was especially disappointed by the change they made to the "secret." In the book, Sir Percival Glyde's secret is something entirely different from what it is in the play - I understand the need to adapt the book to the play - but I was disappointed in this particular change. Overall, I enjoyed hearing the story through music - there are definitely some songs I will enjoy listening to over and over! Rating: - * Excellent Score, Should have Given 4 stars, THANKS ANDREW! ... The soundtrack to the Woman in White has "grown on me" over time, and I now find that I enjoy it very, very much. It is not Phantom or Superstar, but it is it's own thing--and it just totally "works." If I had to rate it today, I would give it 4 stars out of 5. As a matter of fact, I enjoyed the music so much that I bought the sheet music for piano. An excellent score Andrew, thanks! Best numbers: Trying Not to Notice,I Believe in My Heart, Lammastide,You Can Get Away with Anything, The Holly and the Ivy, If I Could Dream this World Away (which starts of great but goes downhill in quality), All for Laura (MAGNIFICENT), Evermore Without You, a song with the lyric "Sweet Tension Fills the Air," and the Finale of Act 2, and the Seduction. Also, the book that this musical is based on by Wilkie Collins is phenomenal. Another Lloyd Webber classic. I've worn out my CD player...again. Rating: - * You Can't Get Away With This ... Since "Sunset Boulevard" opened in 1993 and closed soon after, Webber's works have followed an incline downward. "The Beautiful Game" opened on the West End in 2000 and many audiences questioned if the Master of Musicals had lost his flare. Now, in attempts to re-create another "Phantom", Webber has teamed with lyricist David Zippel (Why not stay with Tim Rice?) to transform Wilke Collins' classic tale of romantic suspense into a broadway operetta. The plot follows the marriage of a young girl, Laura Farlie, to a sinister man, Sir Percival Glyde. Haunting her, is the spector known as the woman in white who bears a striking resemblance to the beuaitful bride. In attemtps to create a love triangle, the drawing master, Walter Hartright, falls in love with the young bride, but the jealous sister, Marian Holcombe, forces him to leave his post and return to the slums of London. Seeking his help, after the death of her sister, Marian seeks out Hartright in the city, only to team up with him to uncover the secret behind her sister's death and who really is "The Woman In White"? Though, the music is fair, it cannot compare to any other Webber musical I know. I might reccomend this buy due to a few great songs: "You Can Get Away With Anything" "I Hope You Like It Here" "Lost Souls" and "All For Laura" Though it is not "Phantom of the Opera", it might interest you to accpet this offer of Webber's latest piece of work. |


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