Blood Brothers is a play by Willie Russell that became a very famous stage musical.
Mrs Johnstone has a big family and lives in Liverpool, her husband walked out on her (for a girl they say looks a bit like Marilyn Monroe). When she finds herself pregnant again with twins, she agrees to give her employer Mrs Lyons one of her children.
However, as the twins grow up, they become best friends, (they even cut their thumbs and become blood brothers). When the Johnstones move away, they are separated but in the end, they become friends again.
As one twin goes off to University and other grows up getting used to unemployment, they grow apart, but they are blood brothers with blood shared.
I won't spoil the plot, but it doesn't end happily.
This is the first musical I ever went to see and it remains my favourite, Russell makes a huge trick of script writing by not bringing the boys on until at least 30 minutes into the musical.
Mrs Johnstone has a big family and lives in Liverpool, her husband walked out on her (for a girl they say looks a bit like Marilyn Monroe). When she finds herself pregnant again with twins, she agrees to give her employer Mrs Lyons one of her children.
However, as the twins grow up, they become best friends, (they even cut their thumbs and become blood brothers). When the Johnstones move away, they are separated but in the end, they become friends again.
As one twin goes off to University and other grows up getting used to unemployment, they grow apart, but they are blood brothers with blood shared.
I won't spoil the plot, but it doesn't end happily.
This is the first musical I ever went to see and it remains my favourite, Russell makes a huge trick of script writing by not bringing the boys on until at least 30 minutes into the musical.
