When I told them that I was a reviewer and I was trying to get some audience feedback, they agreed with all my reservations about the show, but they still like the overall production. they replied enthusiastically, “Yes!” They thought the accents were Scottish not Yorkie or cockney. Yet, my associate Jacob Davis and I met three couples on the Redline who were at the same performance of Blood Brothers. After the haunting opening number, “Marilyn Monroe” sung wonderfully by Kyrie Anderson, the rest of the score and music was simplistic and unmemorable. The entire story line comes off as Shavian anti-establishment polemic. Lastly, the act two scenes that find Mickey marrying Linda (Dana Anderson), his life-long sweetheart (who Eddies grows to also love) leads him to suffer depression when his is laid-off, that ultimately leads him to commit armed robbery seems a stretch while Eddie, as the gentry, becomes a privileged establishment member. I could go on: having adults romp around like little kids (as in the original) doesn’t work today. Lyons’ paranoid belief that the Johnstones are determined to follow her once she moves to the country after Mickey and Eddie (aged seven) become ‘best friends.’ just stretches credulity. Lyons fires her, she is reluctant to accept her severance money. Johnstone doesn’t ask for money, since she lives on the edge of poverty, makes her seem like a dense person. Lyons ( Victoria Oliver) is the heartless, paranoid upper class barren mother who over protects the twin, Eddie. Johnstone is the noble, poor mother forced by circumstances to give up one of her twins and Mrs. Blood Brothers, to me, came off as a dated, cliche-ridden diatribe about the British class system. But even with the character-appropriate work by Cody Jolly, I still wasn’t moved by the material. I have mixed feeling about Blood Brothers, since I enjoyed the haunting performance and nice vocals by Kyrie Anderson and the excellent performance by Charlie Mann, whose acting from child to tormented adult was winning and his singing superb. Her sons Mickey (the son she kept played by Charlie Mann) and Eddie (the son adopted by a wealthy couple played by Cody Jolly) lead the show with the Narrator played by Jordan Phelps. The musical drama is the story of twin brothers separated at birth – one raised by a rich family, the other by the impoverished birth mother of the boys, Mrs.
Perhaps it is a British thing – their obsession with class differences that has dominated the Brits since Shaw’s Pygmalion? Whatever the reason, my first visit to the show seemed like ground I’ve already travel on. One of life’s mysteries is how Blood Brothers ran in England for 24 years and over 10,000 performances. As like each other as two new pins?” -The Narrator from Blood Brothersīlood Brothers is a dated work, about the Brits’ obsession with class differences, that audiences love “Did you ever hear the story of the Johnstone twins
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