Maria Vorster has very kindly lent me her copy of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers for our meeting on the 21st July. It is a rather unlikely story – but who cares?  It’s full of fun.

Adam Ponitpee, [Howard Keel], is the eldest of seven rowdy and undisciplined brothers who live on a remote farm in Oregon. He decides that he needs wife, and sets off to the nearest town to find one.  He settles on Milly, [Jane Powell], an orphan working in the local pub, who has nothing in the world but her clothes, a Bible and a copy of Plutarch’s ‘Lives’.  She innocently looks forward to being a farmer’s wife, but has no idea what lies in store.

She is introduced to the brothers, told ‘there is the kitchen - the pump is outside’, and left to cook dinner. She is horrified by their atrocious table manners, and overturns the table in disgust. They come to admire her, in due course, and decide to find wives of their own. They think that Plutarch’s account of how the Romans kidnap and later marry the Sabine women is the way to go, and proceed to kidnap the girls of their choice, and bring them home. Milly takes the girls under her wing, however, and banishes the brothers to the barn.

I won’t tell you any more - come and find out! The show is full of lively music and dancing, and lasts just 98 minutes.

See you there,

Dave