The Show
Blood Brothers is a
stage play and also a
musical
with music, lyrics and a book by
Willy
Russell, based loosely on the 1844 novella The Corsican
Brothers by
Alexandre
Dumas. The story is a contemporary
nature
and nurture plot, revolving around
fraternal
twins who were separated at birth. The twins' different
backgrounds take them to opposite ends of the social spectrum,
one becoming a councillor and the other unemployed and in
prison. They both fall in love with the same girl, causing a
tear in their friendship and leading to the tragic deaths of
both brothers. Originally developed as a school play, Blood
Brothers debuted in Liverpool before Russell transferred it to
West End
for a short run in 1983. The musical won the
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical and went on to a
year-long national tour before returning for a revival in the
West End in 1988 where it stayed at the Noël Coward Theatre for
3 years. After transferring to the Phoenix Theatre in 1991,
Blood Brothers spent more than 24 years in the West End, and
played more than 10,000 performances, becoming the third
longest-running musical production in West End history. The West
End revival closed in November 2012. The musical has been
produced with success on tour, on
Broadway
and elsewhere, and it has developed a cult following.[1]
Synopsis courtesy of Wikipedia
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