Shirley Valentine Shirley Valentine Shirley Valentine is a one-character play by Willy Russell. Taking the form of a monologue by a middle-aged, working class Liverpool housewife, it focuses on her life before and after a transforming holiday abroad. Wondering what has happened to her youth and feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley finds herself regularly alone and talking to the wall while preparing an evening meal of egg and chips for her emotionally distant husband. When her best friend offers to pay for a trip-for-two to Greece, she packs her bags, leaves a note on the cupboard door in the kitchen,
Blood Brothers (1995 album) fifth solo album, "Wasp". To date, "Blood Brothers" was the fifth time Shaun released new material on an album. David Cassidy (Shaun's half-brother), however, had released solo albums throughout the 1990s, and "Blood Brothers" represented his first musical-theatre album. Following "Blood Brothers", David (unlike Shaun) continued to perform as a headliner of musical theatre throughout the 1990s, including the Las Vegas shows "EFX" and "At The Copa". Petula Clark also continued to perform as a headliner of musical theatre, including an extensive tour of the musical "Sunset Boulevard". Blood Brothers (1995 album) Blood Brothers: The International Recording is a 1995