Future Shows



Blood Brothers

Director: Stephen Carter
Musical Director: Deb Batley

2007 was the first year that this musical by Willy Russell (Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine) was released for amateur rights and will be therefore a completely new and exciting musical experience for Tamworth in community theatre.

Blood Brothers is a rags to riches story that makes a haunting musical tragedy of our times. Mrs Johnstone, deserted by her husband and with a household full of kids to feed learns that she is expecting twins. She cannot afford to keep them and when one of the women for whom she does housework learns of this begs one of the babies from her, being childless herself. The two boys grow up streets apart, not knowing of their relationship. They become friends and even fall for the same girl, despite the adoptive mother trying to keep them apart. Mickey the unadopted one turns to crime, Edward goes to university and prospers. The Narrator, intruding like fate warns that "a price has to be paid". The price is the life of the blood brothers, Edward at the hands of Mickey and Mickey at the hands of the police - thus fulfilling the prophecy that twins parted at birth will die on the day they find out their heritage.

Capitol Theatre Tamworth, 21st October - 5th November 2010

To register your interest in attending or auditioning email tamworthmusicalsociety@gmail.com