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Blood Brothers (Theatre)
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Blood Brothers is a musical written by playwright Willy Russell, about twin brothers—Mickey and Eddie—who are Separated at Birth by their mother, Mrs. Johnstone, who can't afford to raise them both, and her barren employer Mrs. Lyons. They are brought up in two vastly different environments, on opposite ends of the social spectrum. As children, they meet and become best friends, never finding out they are brothers until the day they die.Russell is not a trained musician at all, but wanted to write a musical to call his own, and wanted it to be purely his, not a collaboration. It has become one of the most popular and long-running shows in West End history. | |
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Miles Gloriosus | |
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Miles Gloriosus: While trying to impress Eddie, Mickey and Linda claim that they always Troll the cops with obviously fake answers and rude responses (for example, they say Adolf Hitler when asked for their name). Once a copper approaches them later, Eddie acts that way while his friends freak out. | |
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Ode to Apathy | |
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Ode to Apathy: Played with in the song "I'm Not Saying a Word", where Eddie sings to Linda about how he'd win her heart if he were dating her, all while insisting that he's not trying to woo her, because he knows that Mickey's after her, even though Mickey Cannot Spit It Out. | |
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Sunday is Boring | |
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Sunday is Boring: Mickey has a whole song about how bored and lonely his on a particularly "Long Sunday Afternoon." | |
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Deal with the Devil | |
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Deal with the Devil: The agreement Mrs. Johnstone makes with Ms. Lyon is explicitly compared to a deal with the devil, with "Shoes Upon the Table" emphasizing how the price will eventually come due. | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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Alpha Bitch: Mrs Lyons when she emotionally blackmails Mrs Johnstone into letting her keep Edward. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: The opening number explains how Mr. Johnstone walked out on his wife. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Subverted in that Mrs. Johnstone wants to continue to be part of Eddie's life at first, but Mrs. Lyons won't let her. Played straight with Mr. Johnstone who abandons his family while Mrs. Johnstone is pregnant with the twins. | |
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She Is All Grown Up | |
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She Is All Grown Up: Linda | |
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Shotgun Wedding | |
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Shotgun Wedding: Mr. and Mrs. Johnstone, and Mickey and Linda. | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse: A rare male example: after Mickey's Sanity Slippage, Linda has an affair with Edward; Mrs. Lyons tells Mickey, who blows Edward away. | |
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Baby as Payment | |
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Baby as Payment: Mrs. Johnstone, desperate for money after discovering that she's got twins coming, agrees to sell one of the unborn twins to her employer, Mrs. Lyons, who desperately wants a child. When the twins are born, Mrs. Johnstone has a change of heart, but Mrs. Lyons comes to collect the baby anyway. | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Foregone Conclusion: As noted elsewhere on the page, it's revealed right at the beginning of the play that Mickey and Eddie end up dead; the story's in how that happened. | |
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Ethereal Choir | |
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Ethereal Choir: Used to hauntingly beautiful effect in the Overture. | |
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Separated at Birth | |
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Separated at Birth: The twins, Mickey and Edward. | |
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Taking the Heat | |
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Taking the Heat: Mickey does this for Sammy when the latter participates in an armed robbery. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Mickey kills Eddie and is then shot by the police, having only just found out that they're actually brothers by birth instead of just by the oath they made. | |
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Threat Backfire | |
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Threat Backfire: When Ms. Lyons starts changing the deal on her, Mrs. Johnstone threatens to go to the police. Lyons shoots back that Johnstone will be in far more trouble for 'selling her son'. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Sanity Slippage: Mrs. Lyons. Crosses with a bit of Laser-Guided Karma, as after mocking Mrs. Johnstone for being a bit superstitious, she ultimately becomes far more obsessive about such things. | |
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Spirit Advisor | |
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Spirit Advisor: In some productions, The Narrator, though it's usually played that he is on nobody's side. | |
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Cannot Spit It Out | |
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Cannot Spit It Out: Mickey, in the first part of Act 2, struggles to express his feelings for Linda. | |
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Those Wacky Nazis | |
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Those Wacky Nazis: "Sonny's a Nazi!" | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Johnston is a rather common surname in England, emphasising the family's lower-class status, but the variation makes it seem down to earth (stone). Meanwhile, Lyons invokes the image of a pride of lions, and pride is definitely something Mrs. Lyons values heavily. | |
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Anti-Love Song | |
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Anti-Love Song: "I'm Not Saying A Word", Eddie's song to Linda about how he's not going to tell her how he feels about her. It takes a seriously skilled actor to make this song work. | |
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No Medication for Me | |
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No Medication for Me: While Mickey wants to stay on his meds, they're encouraged to quit by Linda and his mother. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: "Tell Me It's Not True" is the longest and final song in the play, lasting around five and a half minutes. | |
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Prison Changes People | |
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Prison Changes People: Mickey's stint in prison as an accessory to murder turns him into a severely-depressed Empty Shell. | |
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How We Got Here | |
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How We Got Here: The first scene has a re-enactment of the final scene: the two brothers lying dead. | |
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Inherently Funny Words | |
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Inherently Funny Words: "Tits". At one point, after seeing a dirty picture with Mickey, Eddie keeps giddily repeating it over and over. | |
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Sharp-Dressed Man | |
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Sharp-Dressed Man: Despite being gender-neutral, the Narrator is always dressed in a black suit. | |
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Teacher's Pet | |
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Teacher's Pet: In Mickey's secondary school there is a student called Perkins, who constantly puts up his hand and calls out "Sir!" for every question the teacher asks. | |
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Arc Number | |
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Arc Number: The number seven appears several times throughout the play. For example, Mrs. Johnstone already has seven children before having Mickey and Edward, the play moves in seven-year gaps, and Mickey is sentenced to seven years in prison after acting as lookout for a robbery Sammy gets involved in. This could be because of a superstition involving magpies: seeing seven stands for a secret. | |
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Oop North | |
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Oop North: The musical is set in Liverpool and the Royal Liver Building is a key part of the musicals logo. The contrast between life in the slums where Mrs. Johnstone lives and the affluent part of Liverpool where Mrs. Lyons lives drives the plot of the first act. At the beginning of the second act the Johnstone family have been moved to a much nicer council house as part of the slum clearance campaign which actually happened during the post war rebuilding of Britain during the late 1960s and 1970s. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "But a debt is a debt... AND MUST. BE. PAID." | |
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Sibling Triangle | |
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Sibling Triangle | |
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face | |
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: At the end (and beginning) of the play, Mickey threatens Edward with a gun he doesn't know is loaded, and accidentally shoots him. | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
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Dramatic Irony: The audience knows from the start that Mickey and Eddie are twins, but they don't learn this until the end. | |
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Playground Song | |
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Playground Song: This one has two! One is in the first act, so titled "Kids Game," and the other, "High Upon the Hill" is in the second act, chanted after Mrs. Lyons attempts to murder Mrs. Johnstone. | |
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My Beloved Smother | |
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My Beloved Smother: Mrs. Lyons, as if to compensate for the fact Eddie isn't really her son. This is especially the case when it comes to Mrs. Johnstone and Mickey, who she worries are going to try to steal Eddie back. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: Type 7 between Mickey, Eddie, and Linda. She ends up marrying Mickey after he knocks her up, whilst Eddie is away at university. When Mickey is arrested and becomes a pill-popping mental case, Linda turns to Eddie for help and comfort, and the two begin a chaste pseudo-affair. | |
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Jump Scare | |
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Jump Scare: Depending on the production, the gunfire at the end can be this. The start of 'Madman' can be this as well, as it comes immediately after the reprise of 'Easy Terms'. | |
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Surprise Multiple Birth | |
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Surprise Multiple Birth: What kickstarts the plot. Mrs. Johnstone is pregnant and can barely afford to take care of one more child, so when she finds out she's having twins, she gives one to her wealthy, childless neighbour Mrs. Lyons. | |
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Character Catchphrase | |
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Character Catchphrase: The narrator often says or sings "Now you know the Devil's got your number" whenever one of the mothers is feeling guilty. | |
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Adolf Hitlarious | |
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Adolf Hitlarious: When Edward meets Mickey and Linda, they tell him that whenever they're caught by the cops, they tell them that their name is Adolf Hitler. Edward pulls this on a real policeman (twice), only for it to backfire. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: "Take A Letter, Miss Jones" is a bright, upbeat, happy song sung by Mr. Lyons the factory manager as he dictates letters to his secretary, each of which fires another employee. Then he fires her. Not to mention the first part of the song coincides with the wedding of Mickey and Linda. | |
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Sworn Brothers | |
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Sworn Brothers: Former Trope Namer. When Mickey and Eddie meet as children, they decide to become “Blood Brothers� to solidify their best friend-ship. | |
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Younger Than They Look | |
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Younger Than They Look: Mrs. Johnstone, who's had eight children back to back and had to deal with her husband abandoning her, as well as the poverty she is in. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Mickey's secondary school teacher. For example: Mickey counts as well once he is made redundant. | |
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Sanity Slippage Song | |
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Sanity Slippage Song: Presented as children singing about how "High up on the hill there's a woman gone MAD!" | |
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Dark Reprise | |
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Dark Reprise: While "Shoes Upon the Table" is already a very dark song to begin with, the Narrator returns every now and then to reprise it, with somewhat different lyrics, as the brothers' lives comes closer and closer to ending, until he reaches the final reprise, "Madman", when, as he says, "[The Devil]'s calling your number up TODAY". Another example is the song "Marilyn Monroe". The first time it's sung, it's Mrs Johnson who's described as being "sexier than Marilyn Monroe". That continues in the second reprise. However, the final reprise is sung more slowly and this time it's about Mickey, whose tablet taking and depression is described as being "just like Marilyn Monroe". | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility | |
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Law of Inverse Fertility: Mrs. Lyons wants nothing more than her own child, but they can't conceive and her husband refuses to adopt. Mrs. Johnstone, meanwhile, has "seven hungry mouths to feed and one more nearly due" which turns out to be twins. | |
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Interactive Narrator | |
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Interactive Narrator: Depending on the direction for a given production, the Narrator of this show can be played similar to this. | |
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Intrafamilial Class Conflict | |
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Intrafamilial Class Conflict: The contrast between Mickey and Eddie's respective working-class and middle-class upbringings is the main source of conflict in the narrative. | |
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