Blood Brothers’s plot, concerning a working-class woman who gives up one her sons only to see the two become friends, rivals, and, finally, brothers again in tragedy, is the kind of penny-dreadful that’s so melodramatic, it’s nearly farcical. If only author Willy Russell had gone in that direction. Instead, his lighter moments are incidental throwaways in a musical that wallows in portentous hooey. There’s even a somber narrator who strides on every five minutes to deliver some cautionary doggerel -- complete with ominous musical underscoring. Ooohh.
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