Blitz! 1962

Opened: May 8, 1962

Blitz! - 1962 - West End History , Info & More

Adelphi Theatre
Strand, Covent Garden, London WC2R 0NS, United Kingdom London WC2R ONS

In London’s Jewish East End during the Bltizkrieg, The Jewish Blitzstein family’s mother owns a pickled herring stall that adjoins the cockney Locke family’s father’s fruit stall. The two are at odds. But the Bltizstein’s son falls in love with the Locke’s daughter (who is blinded during an air raid). Harry Blitzstein deserts the army. And Mrs. Blitzstein is nearly killed in an air raid.

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Blitz! FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What productions of Blitz! have there been?
Blitz! has had 2 productions including West End which opened in 1962 and West End which opened in 1990.

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