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Blood Brothers spring tour to welcome new cast members

Sean Keany and Cameron Patmore have joined the cast of the multi-award-winning production of Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers for the spring leg of the current UK tour.

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Blood Brothers – Leicester Curve and Touring

Blood Brothers was reviewed at Leicester Curve. The tour continues until 7 December 2024. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Performed with pure conviction by a talented cast, the musical remains its true authentic self and essential viewing for anyone who has yet to experience it, and a rewarding night out for those returning to it again and again.

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Blood Brothers – Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury and Touring

Blood Brothers continues at the Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury until 19 November 2022 and then tours until 3 December 2022. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The musical remains not just a British classic but a show for our time. No wonder many a tear was shed in the Waterside auditorium.

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Blood Brothers – Milton Keynes Theatre and Touring

Blood Brothers continues at Milton Keynes Theatre until 3 September 2022 and then tours until 3 December 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The ever-popular Blood Brothers by Willy Russell arrives at Milton Keynes Theatre this week. The heart-wrenching tale of twin brothers who are separated at birth due to their poverty-stricken mother […]

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Blood Brothers 16-week UK tour announced

Bill Kenwright’s multi-award-winning production of Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers will return for a 16-week UK tour later this month with Niki Colwell Evans and Sean Jones continuing in their roles as Mrs Johnstone and Mickey Johnstone. Opening at Theatre Royal Windsor from 28-30 July, the next leg of the tour which played to packed houses […]

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‘It was my dream role’: After two extraordinary decades Sean Jones prepares to bid farewell to Blood Brothers

Welsh actor SEAN JONES has been running around in short trousers playing young Mickey in Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers in the West End and on national tours for more than two decades. He has announced that the current nine-month, 15-venue marathon which started at Windsor in January and runs through to Salford in late October […]

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Bill Kenwright’s Blood Brothers returns for 16-week UK tour

Bill Kenwright’s multi-award-winning production of Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers has returned for a 16-week UK tour with 2007 X Factor finalist Niki Evans back in the role of Mrs Johnstone. Evans (Kinky Boots, UK tour) who first played the iconic role in the West End production at the Phoenix Theatre in 2008, stars alongside Sean […]

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Linzi Hateley will play Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers autumn 2018 tour

West End star Linzi Hateley will play the central role of Mrs Johnstone when Bill Kenwright’s acclaimed production of Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers begins the autumn leg of its 2018 tour next month. Recently seen as Donna in Mamma Mia!, Hateley (Carrie: The Musical, Chicago) will take centre stage as the mother forced to give […]

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Blood Brothers anniversary tour extended into the autumn

Extra dates have been added to the 30th anniversary tour of Bill Kenwright’s acclaimed production of Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers. After playing to packed houses across the UK, the tour will now continue into the autumn, opening at G Live in Guildford on Tuesday 29 August. Featuring former 1970s pop star Lyn Paul returning to […]

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West End Wilma Awards charity single raises money for relaxed theatre performances

One of the nominees for this year’s West End Wilma Award for Best Understudy, Kieran Brown (The Phantom of the Opera) will debut this year’s awards charity single at the ceremony at the Hippodrome Casino today (Friday 4 November). ‘No Awards For You’ (a song for bad losers everywhere) is Brown’s tongue-in-cheek look at what […]

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Blood Brothers – Congress Theatre, Eastbourne and Touring

Blood Brothers continues at the Congress Theatre, Eastbourne until 23 January and then tours until 16 April 2016, with further dates to be confirmed. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Willy Russell’s musical is a theatrical phenomenon. Starting life as a touring school play, Blood Brothers developed and debuted in Liverpool before Russell transferred it […]

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Lyn Paul will return to the role of Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers

Former seventies pop star Lyn Paul will return to the role of Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers nearly 20 years after she first starred in Willy Russell’s much-loved musical. Paul first won rave reviews for her performance as the character in 1997, she later returned to the role and featured in the show’s final West […]

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Blood Brothers autumn tour – Marti Pellow and Maureen Nolan return

Following a successful spring season of sell-out shows, Marti Pellow is back to continue his role as Narrator for the autumn touring leg of Blood Brothers, opening at the New Wimbledon Theatre on Tuesday 8 September. Pellow extends his role in Willy Russell’s critically-acclaimed musical at selected theatres across the UK from September. Also returning to the show […]

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