Broadway Stars BROADWAYSTARS

Corrie on stage? Bless my hairnet!

by Lucy Mangan

Britain's most enduring soap is going on tour. Diehard fan Lucy Mangan catches Vera, Ena and co in rehearsalI am leaning on a fragment of history: the bar of the Rovers Return, albeit a reproduction, on top of which sits a moth-eaten stuffed ginger cat. In front of me, a mighty tram crash is unfolding. "Slow-motion suffocation, please!" cries director Fiona Buffini, and six bodies fall gradually to the ground. "…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 4:31pm on February 9, 2011