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Musical drama / 5 male, 3 female, plus small chorus
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Blood Brothers, by the author of Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine, is ahauntying rags to riches tragedy of our times. A woman with numerous children to support surrenders one of her new born twins to the childless woman she cleans for. The boys grow up streets apart, never learning the truth but becoming firm friends and falling in love with the same girl. One prospers while the other falls on hard times. A narrator warns that a price has to be paid for separating twins: the life of the blood brothers who die on the day they find out they are related.
"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
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About the Author
Willy Russell was born in Whiston near Liverpool and left school at fifteen. He went through a succession of jobs before, at the age of twenty, he decided to take `O' levels and `A' levels and become a teacher. At about the same time he saw John McGrath's play Unruly Elements at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, and decided he wanted to become a playwright. His plays include: ONE FOR THE ROAD, STAGS AND HENS, EDUCATING RITA, BLOOD BROTHERS and SHIRLEY VALENTINE.
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Olivier Award Best New Musical
Tony Award Best Book of a Musical
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- PublisherSamuel French Ltd
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 057308064X
- ISBN 13 9780573080647
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages134
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