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Characters
Musical Numbers
General Themes
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Characters
The Pontipee Brothers
- Adam Pontipee, the eldest brother
- Benjamin Pontipee
- Caleb Pontipee
- Daniel Pontipee
- Ephraim Pontipee
- Frank Pontipee
- Gideon Pontipee the youngest brother
The Brides
- Millie
- Dorcas
- Ruth
- Martha
- Liza
- Sarah
- Alice
The Suitors
- Zeb
- Carl
- Luke
- Matt
- Joel
- Zeke
The Townsfolk
- Reverend Elcott ( Alice's Father)
- Mrs Elcott
- Mr Bixby
- Mrs. Bixby
- Mr. Perkins
- Dorcas' younger sister to whom she reads a bedtime story.
- Various other townsfolk, and families of the brides
Musical Numbers
Act I
- Bless Your Beautiful Hide (Adam)
- Wonderful Wonderful Day (Milly and Brides)
- One Man (Milly)
- Goin' Courtin' (Milly and Brothers)
- Social Dance (Milly, Adam, Brides, Brothers, Suitors and Townspeople
- Love Never Goes Away (Adam, Milly and Gideon)
- Sobbin’ Women (Adam and Brothers)
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Act II
- The Townsfolk's Lament (Suitors and Townspeople)
- A Woman Ought To Know Her Place (Adam)
- We Gotta Make It Through The Winter (Brothers)
- We Gotta Make It Through The Winter (Reprise) (Milly and Brides)
- Spring Dance (Brides and Brothers)
- A Woman Ought To Know Her Place (Reprise) (Adam and Gideon)
- Glad That You Were Born (Milly, Adam, Brides, Brothers and Townspeople)
- Wedding Dance (Milly, Adam, Brides, Brothers and
General Themes
1850's in general : Patchwork clothes and furnishings ( the girls remake their dresses during the long winter when they are snowed in).
Snow ; plays a large part in the plot, enforcing the girls' stay on the farm.
The coming of spring; The song "Spring, Spring, Spring" is from the film rather than the theatre production, but the references can apply, depending on your production.
Love ; passion, loyalty, friendship, family.The adjustments made to smooth the path of true love.
Weddings and babies ; Brides and grooms, all the paraphernalia of a wedding, Brides' garters, bouquets of flowers, horseshoes and confetti, rings, sugared almonds, rice, wedding cake. New baby, cradle, pram, rattle etc.,
Links
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia has lots of pages relating to Seven Brides for Seven Brothers with a great deal of information that may be of interest
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) imdb website for information relating to the film version.
Musicals.Net has a full synopsis and songlist.
Music Theatre International has a full synopsis, cast list, and some interesting additional information
