Women in White

[livelife]

Posted: 2/19/06 at 8:35am

todays the last show people.......i wish i had the chance to see this, do you think it really deserves to close?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/19/06 at 8:38am

No but it is too cerebral for many including tourists who are not here in Jan/Feb & March. It had no falling chandeliers, goose stepping nazis or helicopters so.....

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 2/19/06 at 10:44am

It is such a sad thing to see this show be cut short. It was a good show. I mean yes it had it's flaws but i found it very enjoyable and it was a great show to see when you weren't in the mood for everything to be sugar and sunshine. It also brought us one of London's greatest imports, Maria Friedman. I hope she continues well on her road to recovery.

[Thesbijean]

Posted: 2/19/06 at 11:15am

There is no show Women in White on Broadway

However, The Woman in White is indeed closing this afternoon.

[sharon1]

Posted: 2/19/06 at 11:15am

I have become a huge Maria Friedman fan because of this show. Only knew her thru recordings and such before this. I only wish I could have seen she and Michael Ball together more. The seduction scene was so very very good, and they have such chemistry between them. I hope she recovers very quickly, and I understand Michael Ball is on complete vocal rest. So maybe they will both be back soon. Wish them both well.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 2/19/06 at 11:55am

Thesbi, I believe he was referring to the groupies as the "Women in White".

[grizzabella]

Posted: 2/19/06 at 1:44pm

livelife, it's sad but a lot of shows that don't deserve to close, do close. However, it's not really about deserving to close. In the final analysis, it's about business and the need to meet its expenses. Woman in White is an expensive show to stage and it's in a huge theatre. It simply hasn't had the attendance to make it profitable. It's also a show that isn't a "feel-good" tourist draw. It's just had too many strikes against it and it can't stay open if it hemmorages money.

[showinoff]

Posted: 2/19/06 at 2:12pm

I am afraid the poor word of mouth did not help this production either. Living in NY, there are few people who went to see this show, and had great things to say about it. I would be eager to see what the numbers were for the final show

[londonbaby]

Posted: 2/19/06 at 2:17pm

yer all the people in new york went to see Wicked or Sweeney... yawn lol

[sports620]

Posted: 2/19/06 at 2:44pm

I was at the show last night and the place was packed. It looked like the performance may have even been sold out.

Show was great, cast was great. Funny to see the changes from the West End to Bway productions. Updated On: 2/19/06 at 02:44 PM

[musicalsFan]

Posted: 2/19/06 at 9:32pm

Sports620,

Would you tell us what were the changes?
I didn't follow the show when it debut in London and only have seen it in NYC. I also bought the London cast recording.
Thanks much.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/19/06 at 10:55pm

I was in the front Orchestra this afternoon at the last performance. It was a special afternoon and I enjoyed it immensely. There were so many details to observe the second time around. I especially wanted to hear the score once more in the theatre. The cast was very, very good, and Maria was in the moment as if this were her first night. Thank you, cast of Broadway's WOMAN IN WHITE.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 2/19/06 at 10:56pm

I'm still surprised that people liked this show...just goes to show that crap with one day reign broadway even more than it is now.

[AnotherDay46]

Posted: 2/19/06 at 11:57pm

Everyone is allowed to have their own opinion Munk, so is it necessary to put people down for liking the show? I'm sorry you don't but that's uncalled for.
Updated On: 2/20/06 at 11:57 PM

[kec]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 3:38am

One person's "crap" is another person's favorite show. I could say I'm surprised that people DIDN'T like this show -- but since I do take into consideration the fact that not everyone is going to share my opinion, I generally keep such thoughts/comments to myself.

Musicals fan -- I noticed some changes in the lyrics throughout the show, but I couldn't tell you exactly what they were, other than when Glyde first sings about Fosco, he gives a little more detail about the man. In London, during "I Hope You LIke It Here" they had Marian and Walter "go up a flight of stairs" -- which was kind of silly, good reason to remove that. There were no gravestones in the churchyard in the London production. "I Believe My Heart" was sung a bit differently. Fosco didn't use a knife at the end of the seduction scene -- at least Michael Ball didn't. Anthony Andrews and I believe the actors after him did. Marian never confessed her love for Walter (she started to, but was interrupted) during the asylum scene, and Walter doesn't offer her his pledge. In the London production, the show ended with Marian singing, "I close my eyes, and I still see his face." with Anne's white shawl around her head.

[musicalsFan]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 8:53am

Thank you, kec.

I'll have to listen to the CD now.
Too bad it isn't of the US cast but as long as Maria Friedman is in it, one can't complain.

[sports620]

Posted: 2/20/06 at 10:16am

musicalsfan-
kec wrote of a few changes.. Yes there was no knife scene, and I saw the show after Michael Ball was in it. I was a little taken aback when I saw that in NY, I'm not sure that scene was necessary.
I think everymore without you had different lyrics, can anyone back me up on that?

Also, Marian never professed her love, she was about to, and it was sort of implied but never stated. Also walter never promised to be with Marian. They still had that same scene where he says, 'but after all we've been through' and she says to go to Laura.

When they go back to Limmeridge house, after finding Laura, Walter and Marian run in and tell the uncle that he has to tell them the story of Anne. While they're there, Laura is playing the piano, so he hears that first and is dumbfounded. Then Laura walks in.

There is no wedding scene at the end, it is just as kec has said.