More Casting Announced for Broadway Woman in White

By: Sep. 21, 2005
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More casting has been announced for The Woman in White, the romantic Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that will open on Broadway on November 17th at the Marquis Theatre after beginning previews on October 28th.

Laura Dekkers, Courtney Glass, Leah Horowitz, Norman Large, Michael Shawn Lewis, Elizabeth Loyacano, Sean MacLaughlin and Elena Shaddow will be featured in the show's ensemble. The musical, which is based on the classic Wilkie Collins novel, will feature a number of its original West End stars. Two-time Olivier Award-winner Maria Friedman (Chicago, Ragtime, Passion) will make her Broadway debut as Marian Halcombe, and Michael Ball (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Aspects of Love, Les Miserables) will play the conniving Count Fosco. Also reprising their roles as Anne Catherick and Laura Fairlie are respectively Angela Christian and Jill Paice. They are joined by Adam Brazier as Walter Hartright, Ron Bohmer as Sir Percival Glyde and Walter Charles as Mr. Fairlie.

The Woman in White is currently spooking audiences at London's Palace Theatre, where it opened on September 15th, 2004. Directed by Trevor Nunn (Les Miserables, Chess), the show (which was nominated for 5 Olivier Awards) features music by Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera), lyrics by David Zippel (City of Angels, The Goodbye Girl) and a book by Charlotte Jones (Humble Boy). William Dudley (sets and costumes), Paul Pyant (lighting), and Mick Potter (sound) make up the design team with Wayne McGregor behind the choreography and Simon Lee handling the music supervision. All of the creative team will be on hand for the Broadway run.

The show is (according to production notes) about "a dashing young man, employed as the art tutor to two devoted sisters, (who) is stranded at a remote railway cutting. Out of the darkness looms a woman, a mysterious figure dressed in white, desperate to share a chilling secret. He and the sisters soon find themselves trapped in a web of betrayal and greed, the victims of a seemingly flawless crime. Together they will need all their resourcefulness and courage to outwit a hugely charismatic and ingenious villain. As the compelling plot twists and turns, low villainy vies with high romance in a world where nothing is as it first appears and where it is impossible to know who to trust."

Ruthie Henshall, who succeeded Friedman, currently stars as Marian. The cast also includes Simon Callow as the nefarious Count Fosco (a role originated by Michael Crawford), as well as Damien Humbley, Alexandra Silber, Michael Cormick and Elinor Collett as the white wraith of the title.

Visit www.womaninwhitethemusical.com for more information. Visit www.ticketmaster.com for ticket information.


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