Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Synopsis

All American Western romantic musical. The tale of the seven Pontipee brothers, Oregon 1880s. When Adam, the eldest brother, marries Millie, the Pontipees are shaken out of their backwoods life with a vengeance. A show full of pure energy, vibrant dancing and rousing musical numbers such as Bless Your Beautiful Hide, Spring, Spring, Spring, Goin Courtin and Wonderful Wonderful Day.

Our Review:

17 August 2006

A technical glitch at the start of the West End press performance was a harbinger of things to come. As the house lights dimmed, the curtain rose on a screen that was supposed to show us countryside views; instead, it displayed an LCD projector error message of “no input detected”.

This screen-to-stage production of the MGM musical comedy, about a family of backwoods brothers who resort to kidnapping their wives à la the Romans with the Sabine women, has been touring the UK on and off since 2001 and continuously for the past nine months. Reading back over my colleague’s earlier review below, it’s clear that Charles Camm’s set was never up to much but now it’s literally falling apart.

As the evening progressed at the Haymarket, walls wobbled threateningly, doors wouldn’t stay shut, stagehands struggled to get the revolving set to revolve, screens didn’t lift on cue, props broke and a flower box crashed to the ground. Natalie Cole’s costumes also proved faulty: in the f...

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Latest User Review

62.253.128.14) - 20 September 2006:

We saw the london production on 9th September with our relations over from australia,who thought as we did, that it is a very good all round show,for all ages, with everyone in the cast giving it their all, and you can see that they are really enjoying doing it, the hiccups they seemed to have had at the start of the run appear to have been sorted,and i am glad that they have extended the booking period ,the audience the night we were there were very appreciative,with 3 curtain calls.and the new website for the show is good as well ...

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