Bill Kenwright’s legendary, award-winning manufacturing of the worldwide smash hit musical, Blood Brothers continues to tour throughout the UK.
This autumn will see Glaswegian actress Vivienne Carlyle returning to the enduring position of Mrs. Johnstone, having obtained nightly standing ovations for her highly effective and poignant efficiency within the West End manufacturing.
Sean Jones and Joe Sleight return to the manufacturing as twins Mickey and Eddie, with Gemma Brodrick reprising the position of Linda.
Also returning to the forged for 2024 are Sarah Jane Buckley (Mrs Lyons), Scott Anson (Narrator), Tim Churchill (Mr Lyons), Chloe Pole (Donna Marie), Alex Harland (Policeman/Teacher), Graeme Kinniburgh (Postman/Bus Conductor) and Jess Smith (Brenda), with James Ledsham (Sammy), Ben Mabberley (Perkins) and Dominic Gore (Neighbour) becoming a member of the manufacturing.
Vivienne Carlyle is an actor and singer with a world profession as a musical theatre main woman and recording artist. Since graduating from the University of Strathclyde, her theatre roles have included The Narrator in Bill Kenwright’s long-running manufacturing of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Grizabella in Cats, Mrs Walker in The Whos’ Tommy and Songbird in Cirque du Soleil’s long-running Saltimbanco in addition to her acclaimed earlier appearances as Mrs Johnstone within the West End and touring productions of Blood Brothers.
Award-winning playwright Willy Russell’s epic story of Liverpool life began as a play, carried out at a Liverpool complete college in 1981, earlier than opening as a musical at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1983. It has since triumphed throughout the globe, finishing promote out seasons within the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Japan. Few musicals have been obtained with such acclaim because the multi-award-winning Blood Brothers, scooping up 4 awards for Best Musical in London and 7 Tony Award nominations on Broadway. It is taken into account ‘one of the best musicals ever written’ (Sunday Times). Bill Kenwright’s manufacturing surpassed 10,000 performances in London’s West End, one among solely three musicals ever to realize that milestone.
The excellent rating contains A Bright New Day, Marilyn Monroe and the emotionally charged hit Tell Me It’s Not True.
Blood Brothers tells the charming and transferring story of twins separated at beginning, who develop up on the other sides of the tracks, solely to meet once more with tragic penalties.
When Mrs Johnstone, a younger mom, is abandoned by her husband and left to her personal gadgets to offer for seven hungry youngsters she takes a job as a housekeeper in an effort to make ends meet. It is just not lengthy earlier than her brittle world crashes round her when she discovers herself to be pregnant but once more – this time with twins! In a second of weak spot and desperation, she enters a secret pact together with her employer which leads inexorably to the present’s shattering climax.
Willy Russell is one among this nation’s main modern dramatists. His numerous credit embrace Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine. Educating Rita, initially commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, loved a two-year run within the West End and was made right into a film starring Michael Caine and Julie Walters. Shirley Valentine additionally made the transfer from stage to display screen in an enormously standard movie starring Pauline Collins and Tom Conti, it was additionally revived final 12 months, finishing a promote out West End run starring Sheridan Smith.
Tue 15 Oct – Sat 19 Oct 2024
King’s Theatre, Glasgow
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