St James, LondonJean Webster's 1912 novel about an orphan girl and her mysterious benefactor has cast a long shadow. It spawned a Broadway play and several movies, including one in which, rather creepily, an aged Fred Astaire fell for a young Leslie Caron. I also dimly recall a popular 1950s British musical version, Love from Judy. Now John Caird and composer-lyricist Paul Gordon have used the story as the source for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM on November 7, 2012