Steve Wigan
Player Valuation: £35m
The best producers encourage their directors and actors to be expressive within the confines of the script and story.
Somewhat disappointingly, BK has something of a reputation for repressing such expression, especially with wildly successful shows like Blood Brothers, and it must be soul destroying at times for the cast to have to be almost robotic in ones performances.
Must say I've seen Blood Brothers three times at least, and read reviews, and never read a bad review of an actors performance...but as you say, its such a good show its relatively easy to act it for a professional. In fact the boxer John Conteh...no actor....once played the narrator and got good reviews!