A Liverpool-set West Side Story, Blood Brothers is the tale of twin brothers separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. One of them is given away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and grows up to be a successful government official. The other winds up unemployed and in prison. They grow up as friends in ignorance of their fraternity until they both fall in love with the same woman and the inevitable quarrel unleashes a bloodbath.

 

Blood Brothers was first performed in London in 1983 and opened on Broadway in 1993.