Hardened theatre critics gave her a standing ovation when she wowed them in the West End, and now Melanie C is on her way to Liverpool to reprise her stellar performance in Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers.
Once she can find her script that is. “I’d put it in that, you know that safe place we always put things in and can never find them?” admits the 36-year-old. “You know you’ve always got one of those drawers, one of those cupboards, in the kitchen with odd things in.Well, it was in there and happily I’ve found it.”
Phew. The show can go on. It’s six months since Melanie last wriggled into the pinny of Mrs Johnstone, stage musicals’ most famous charlady, but she says returning to the part to bring it to Liverpool was a no-brainer.
She explains: “It was coming towards the end of my run in the West End and I had a meeting with one of the executive producers, and he just said, ‘well, we have an opportunity to go to Liverpool in November and we wondered if you’d like to come along?’ And I just jumped at the chance. In fact I’d secretly been hoping they were going to ask.”
She adds: “The Liverpool shows are legendary. It’s just such an honour to be able to play Mrs Johnstone in Liverpool.”
When she arrives with the cast next week it won’t be the first time the Whiston-born singing star has stood on the Empire stage however.
She recalls an early appearance hot-hoofing it in a charity gala as the young Melanie Chisholm.
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