The London theatre community was deeply saddened this week by the death of the bigshot producer Bill Kenwright. A titan on the West End and beyond, over his 50-odd year career as an impresario, he produced more than 500 projects including the recent hit My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?), now heading to Broadway, the first big touring revival of West Side Story in 1972 and the 2000 production of Long Day’s Journey into Night starring Jessica Lange and Charles Dance.
But Kenwright was probably best known (except among football fans, because he was Chairman of Everton FC) for being the man who took Blood Brothers to Broadway.
