Angela’s Ashes: The Musical at Cork Opera House brings some belly-laughs to Frank McCourt's tale, writes Marjorie Brennan.

‘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.

ANGELA’S ASHES, the Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography by Frank McCourt, may not seem material for a musical.