Blood Brothers By Willy Russell

[tripletsandtwins]

Hiya, I've been handed a copy of Willy Russell's play, Blood Brothers, and I'm just wondering if it's worth the effort of reading?

Thanks xx

Nah go see it, wouldn't read it but a childhood fave of a musical for me

Hmm... I enjoyed the watching of, but not sure I could be arsed with just reading. Without the music etc I'm not sure it really has the same effect

Wouldn't read it but definitely go and see it (and take tissues!) I saw it last year with Linda Nolan playing the Mum - it was superb and the girls enjoyed it too.

Right barely ever get the chance for this joke.

What do you call a man wearing paper pants?

Willy Russell!

I think there may have been a Nolan when I went... do they just work their way round the family over the years???

Oh dear...

I wish I was our Sammy, our Sammy's nearly 10... he's got two worms and a catapult, and he's built an underground den.

Sorry - my sister got me to do that part for her theatre studies a level, and I have never managed to forget any of the bloody speech/monologue!!

I hate to say this slur, but that actually made me laugh

I would love to see it, but I'm in the States, so I don't know if it's on over here, and the idea of me going to the theater for an evening sans kids is almost laughable.

Linda has been doing it for a long time I think - she must be sick of it by now!

We studied it at school. I don't remember much, but I do remember enjoying it (though that may be just because of a schoolgirl's delight at discovering the best insult one can legally use during an English lesson - go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut)

I have only ever read it and really enjoyed it. I rehearsed it with some German English students and we performed it in a school.

I've read it but not seen it. I'm afraid I thought it was cringe-makingly awful - lots of really forced rhymes and a really cheesy storyline.

I love "Educating Rita" and "Shirley Valentine" though. I even quite like "Stags And Hens" - but Willy Russell and poetry were never meant to mix I think.

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There are 2 versions, one musical and one non musical version which is released for amateur productions, from what I can gather the endings are different.

The musical version would definitely lack something without the songs and the performances.