When they find that they share a birthday, they agree to become “blood brothers,” allying against Mickey’s bullying older brother, Sammy. When still boys, the two meet by chance, and become fast friends. Lyons to be his mother, matures in the lap of luxury. Johnstone, grows up in a rough-and-tumble environment. Seven years pass, and Mickey, the twin who stayed with Mrs. The Narrator warns that one day the Devil will come to punish the two women. Johnstone that if two twins, separated at birth, ever learn the truth about their origins, they will die on the spot. Johnstone to be superstitious, comes up with a fatal lie. Johnstone-and when the cleaning lady tries to take her baby back, Mrs.
Johnstone is paying too much attention to the new baby. Lyons grows jealous and suspicious, believing that Mrs. When she goes home, she lies to her children, telling them that one of the twins has died.Īfter Mrs. Lyons takes one of her twin boys away, the poorer woman laments all the debts she’s had to pay. The Narrator warns that misfortunes will follow.
Johnstone swears, on the Bible, never to reveal the truth of their bargain. Lyons, who pleads to take one of the twins-but only if Mrs. An unlikely solution presents itself, however, in the form of Mrs. There’s no way she can afford to feed two more mouths. Johnstone is devastated to find that she’s carrying twins. Lyons, a wealthy woman who longs for a child of her own. Now, however, her life is a never-ending cycle of unpaid bills and hungry children. She reminisces about the days when she used to go dancing with her husband, who made her feel like Marilyn Monroe. Johnstone, a lower class woman who was abandoned by her husband after giving birth to five children, and while pregnant with another. The musical Blood Brothers begins as its Narrator tells the audience about the Johnstone twins, Mickey and Edward, who were separated at birth and died on the same day.
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