A musical to commemorate the 75th anniversary of The Blitz will be premièred in Liverpool this autumn.
Liver Birdsong: The Liverpool Blitz Musical by Tony Bradley and Rebecca Myers is given its debut at the city’s Epstein Theatre from November 29 to December 3.
The musical is set on November 28/29 1940, in the early phase of the Liverpool Blitz. The events of that night were later described by Winston Churchill as “the worst single (civilian) incident of the war”. It involved a direct hit by a parachute bomb on Durning Road Air Raid Shelter near Edge Lane which killed 180 people.
The show is produced by Birdsong Live Productions CIC, father and daughter team Tony Bradley and Rebecca Myers in their first joint venture into professional musical theatre. Their musical is packed with 18 new songs, with an all-professional company of actors and a live band.