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 Over two decades into its West End run, Willy Russell's iconic musical Blood Brothers, showing at the Phoenix Theatre, has barely dated at all. This is particularly true of the music, whose 80s drum machines and sweeping, hum-able choruses are very much back in vogue in London's clubland. The story is classic musical fare - best friends slowly torn apart by the pressures of superstition, economics and, above all, class, all underpinned by a haunting secret - told with verve and lyrical freshness that could only have come from this marvellous writer. Its thirty-year tale sees growing prosperity before the disasters of the eighties, but these great social changes take place alongside more intimate emotion: the excitement and danger of an inner-city childhood, the blessed relief of university for a repressed middle class boy, the giggles and goose bumps of teenage love. This heart-wrenching musical has recently been given an injection of fresh blood in the form of one of 2007's X Factor stars Niki Evans, who joins Kiki Dee and Barbara Dickson in the long line of actresses to play Mrs Johnstone. She may be a novice to the West End stage but her big voice is up to the job and her lack of drama school-esque polish gives the role the raw, persuasive edge it needs. The kind of work that simply never gets made any more, Blood Brothers deserves its status as a modern classic. |
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What's on at
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Blood Brothers
1st January 2002 - 31st July 2010
Over two decades into its West End run, Willy Russell's... |
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Further articles featuring Blood Brothers on LondonTown.com
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London's Top Musicals
(Published August 2009)
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| Blood Brothers
Phoenix Theatre, WC2H 0JP
Until 31st July 2010
Over two decades into its West End run, Willy Russell's iconic musical Blood Brothers, showing at...
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