Blood Brothers

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After the splendour of musical comedies and classics enjoyed at Kristin over the past few years, our senior students were hungry for the chance to produce a piece of raw, emotional musical theatre. Blood Brothers offered our students the opportunity to extend themselves through a theatrical challenge beyond anything they had ever experienced at Kristin.

Auditions took place in December last year to assemble an incredibly strong cast of 25, who began preparations immediately to convincingly convey Liverpudlian characters between the 1960s and 1980s. Music was learnt, dialogue was studied and intensive training in the ‘Scouse’ accent commenced. A total of 47 students made up the crew, working with staff members in various backstage and technical departments, and the Blood Brothers band had the highest ratio of student to adult musicians of any production at Kristin. Each student, on and off stage, contributed greatly to the delivery of a very slick and gripping piece of theatre, supported by a sensational production team.

With a season of just four performances, over 1,000 audience members attended this moving show, and each performance concluded with a rousing standing ovation. The incredibly positive feedback praised the students for being able to deliver an emotional performance of this magnitude with such authenticity. One community member wrote of the show: “There are many adult performances that never achieve what this amazing production has managed.”

Blood Brothers, I know, will live in the hearts of all involved, and all who were privileged enough to witness it, for a very long time.