Behind the scenes of 'Angela's Ashes' the musical

‘Angela’s Ashes’ took the literary world by storm and now Frank McCourt’s masterpiece is coming to the stage as a musical. Esther McCarthy goes behind the scenes at rehearsals.

ELLEN McCourt can still vividly remember the first time she set eyes on her future husband Frank in a pub on a chilly December night in New York.

The Lion’s Head in Greenwich Village was a much-loved watering hole for the city’s writers, journalists and artists, visited by literary giants like Norman Mailer and musical ones like The Clancy Brothers.