![]() The songs are beautiful, Gary’s music is wonderful and Tim’s lyric’s and script are brilliant.” “Everything about this show appealed to me. I have never cried at a sofa in my life!” she declared. Lisa Maxwell, best known for starring in The Bill and as a panellist on TVs Loose Women, also recalls her first memory of the show, which was from an audience perspective. ![]() ![]() “David Pugh was my first ever producer! In 1984 he gave me my first opportunity in the world of proper grown-up theatre in Blood Brothers.” she says, smiling fondly at the memory. “These women did something spectacular,” marvels Rebecca Storm who plays Chris and who not only grew up a stone’s throw from Rylstone, but has another coincidental link to the production. Over 5 million pounds later (and with post-performance collections for the charity Bloodwise still boosting that total as effectively as a Wonderbra) the calendar has taken its genteel subjects all over the world and spawned a film, a stage play and, most recently, a critically acclaimed musical. Everyone knows the story: twenty years ago the women of Rylstone WI posed for a cheeky calendar to raise funds for a sofa at their local hospital – the hospital where Angela Baker’s husband John had his life cruelly cut short by Leukaemia.
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