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Blood Brothers: A Musical
Blood Brothers: A Musical
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Author: Willy Russell Publisher: Samuel French (cover may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 76 Pub. Date: 1985 Edition: Acting ISBN-10: 057308064X ISBN-13: 9780573080647 Cast Size: 3 female, 5 male, plus small chorus
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About
the Play:
Blood Brothers is a full-length musical drama by Willy
Russell, based loosely on the 1844 novella The Corsican Brothers
by Alexandre Dumas. Twin English brothers are separated at
birth, with one raised in wealth and the other in poverty. How will
their different upbringings affect their adult lives? They grow to be
friends and then bitter enemies without knowing their blood
connection. A Liverpudlian West Side Story, Blood Brothers is
one of the longest-running and most successful ever West End
musicals.
Blood Brothers is a haunting rags to riches story of twin
brothers separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to
keep them both. When Mrs. Johnstone, a young mother, is deserted by
her husband and left to her own devices to provide for seven hungry
children she takes a job as a housekeeper in order to make ends meet.
It is not long before her brittle world crashes around her when she
discovers herself to be pregnant yet again – this time with twins!
In a moment of weakness and desperation, she gives one of her new
born twins to the childless woman she cleans for, the wealthy Mrs
Lyons. The boys grow up a few blocks apart, Mickey Johnson in a
crowded tenement house while Eddie Lyons enjoys posh surroundings,
not knowing that they are in fact brothers but becoming firm friends.
When Mickey ends up in trouble with the law, Eddie finds out about a
short-lived affair with Mickey's girlfriend Linda, and it sets off a
chain of events that changes the lives of both families.
Blood Brothers started as a play, performed at a Liverpool
comprehensive school in 1981 before premiering in 1983 at The
Liverpool Playhouse, completing sell out seasons in the US,
Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Japan. Blood Brothers also
ran in London's West End for 24 years, exceeding 10,000 performances,
one of only three musicals ever to achieve that milestone. The
play is regularly performed in regional repertory, high school,
college, and community theatre productions.
Cast: 3 female, 5 male, plus small chorus
What people say:
"One of the best musicals ever
written." — Sunday Times
"The most exciting thing to
have happened to the English musical theatre for years." —
Punch
"A full bodied musical, a
wonderful melodrama that is also a thoroughly modern ballad opera."
— Wall Street Journal
"There are so many good things
to shout and sing about in this new musical." — Daily
Mail
"Deeply moving." —
London Broadcasting
"Totally beguiling."
— City Limits
"A masterpiece – if you
haven't seen it, go. If you have, go again." — News
of the World
About the Playwright:
Willy Russell is one of the most successful English
playwrights of his generation. He is best known for Blood
Brothers, Educating Rita, and Shirley Valentine.
One of the longest-running musicals in London's West End, Blood
Brothers won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical in
1983. Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine were both
awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, in 1980 and
1988 respectively. Both plays were made into successful films and are
in constant production throughout the world.
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