Tags: Musical.
Blitz! is a musical by Lionel Bart. The musical described by Steven Suskin as massive was set in the East End of London during the Blitz (the aerial bombings during World War II). The story drew on Bart’s childhood memories of London’s Jewish East End during the Blitz and like most musicals centred on a romance between a young couple in this case a Jewish woman and a Cockney man although the largest role and main point-of-view character is that of Mrs.