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Blood Brothers Event date:2011-09-02

Blood Brothers at The Phoenix Theatre, London
Long running dramatic musical

One of the West End's longest running musicals, Blood Brothers has been drawing crowds since 1988. Originally written as a school play and first performed by a Liverpool comprehensive school in 1981, 1982 saw Willy Russell (who had had enormous success previously with John, Paul, George, Ringo And Bert (1974) and Educating Rita (1980)), turn Blood Brothers into a full scale, professional musical, writing the music and lyrics himself.

Opening at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1983, even the casting of Barbara Dickson as Mrs Johnstone could not draw in a large crowd. Nevertheless, Blood Brothers transferred to London where it only played for six months. The hard hitting drama of Blood Brothers, along with hits high emotion score and gritty Liverpudlian humour was seen by Bill Kenwright, who subsequently took over the production and sent it on a successful UK tour. Blood Brothers eventually settled in the West End’s Albery Theatre (now the Noel Coward Theatre) in 1988, moving to its current home, the Phoenix Theatre, three years later.

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