Originally produced as a high school play in 1981, Willy Russell subsequently adapted the play into a musical and it premiered at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1983 with Barbara Dickson as Mrs Johnstone and Andrew Schofiend as the Narrator. The show then transferred to the West End and ran from April to October 1983 at the Lyric Theatre. This production won the Olivier Awards for Best Musical and Best Actress in a Musical (Barbara Dickson).
After two UK tours in 1984 and 1987, Blood Brothers returned to the West End, where it ran for 24 years moving from the Albery Theatre (now the Noel Coward
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