Maria Friedman, Angela Christian and Jill Paice, who all appeared in the original London company of The Woman in White, will reprise their roles on Broadway. The mounting is also set to star Adam Brazier as Walter Hartright, Ron Bohmer as Sir Percival Glyde and Walter Charles as Mr. Farlie.
One of Britain's top leading ladies, Friedman, who received an Olivier nomination for her work in the West End company of the show, will be making her Broadway in The Woman in White. Christian is best known to New York audiences as Miss Dorothy in Thoroughly Modern Millie. Paice's theatrical credits include Mamma Mia! in Las Vegas and the national tour of Les Miserables. Bohmer has appeared on Broadway in Les Miserables, Fiddler on the Roof and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Brazier previously appeared on the Great White Way in Into the Woods. Charles' Broadway credits include Grease, Sweeney Todd, La Cage aux Folles, Aspects of Love, Me and My Girl, Kiss Me, Kate, The Boys from Syracuse and Big River.
Freely adapted from Wilkie Collins's Victorian thriller, The Woman in White centers on 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 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 whom to trust. The musical has been adapted for the stage by Charlotte Jones Humble Boy with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by David Zippel City of Angels, The Goodbye Girl.
The Woman in White, directed by Trevor Nunn, is scheduled to begin performances at the Marquis Theatre on October 28 in preparation for a November 17 opening.
