“Blood Brothers”, Middle & Senior Play 2016

“Blood Brothers, by the author of Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine, Willy Russell, is a haunting rags to riches tragedy of our times. A woman with numerous children to support surrenders one of her new born twins to the childless woman she cleans for. The boys grow up streets apart, never learning the truth but becoming firm friends and falling in love with the same girl. One prospers while the other falls on hard times. A narrator warns that a price has to be paid for separating twins: the lives of the blood brothers, who die on the day they find out they are related.”

“A full bodied musical, a wonderful melodrama that is also a thoroughly modern ballad opera.” – Wall Street Journal

“The most exciting thing to have happened to the English musical theatre for years.” – Punch

“There are so many good things to shout and sing about in this new musical.” – Daily Mail

“Deeply moving.” – London Broadcasting

“A genuine crowd pleaser…Blood Brothers remains a one-of-a-kind show…and no musical theater fan should fail to experience it.” – Theater Week

“Totally beguiling.” – City Limits

“For years we have…longed for a show in which words and music, characterization and songs are given equal weight…Blood Brothers is such an event.” – Time Out

“Blood Brothers sparkles on Broadway. Willy Russell has the gift for heartbreak…This musical’s power to terrify, amuse and beguile gallops along…It is impossible to leave Blood Brothers unmoved. Even people who don’t like musicals will love this work.” -Connecticut Post

Play Director: Carolina Echeverria

Musical Director: Carina Cristina

Choreographer: Mora Maira

BDS production by agreement with: Samuel French UK

Photos correspond to the audition and a meeting with F. Lehmann (Educational Innovation) so that the play would have its own Schoology group…