‘Seven Brides’ ready to dance

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

A touring production of “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” will come to Powers Auditorium Monday for one performance at 8 p.m.

The rousing, old-fashioned musical is a stage version of the popular 1954 film.

When the live show opened on Broadway in 1982, it received a Tony Award nomination for Best Original Score.

“Seven Brides” is set in the Oregon backcountry in the 1850s. A mountain man named Adam Pontipee (played by Justun Hart) heads into town to find a wife.

He meets a cook named Millie (Kate Marshall), who falls in love on the spot and is up for the challenge of becoming an instant bride.

It’s only when they get back to Adam’s mountain home that she discovers that she was also intended to be the cook and housemaid for Adam’s six brothers who also live there.

Millie sets about to find brides for the six men, and succeeds with the help of Adam and an unorthodox bit of kidnapping.

“Seven Brides” is highlighted by some very physical group dance scenes and brawls.

One situation includes a complicated dance with axes and another uses blankets as Millie gets the brothers to take a bath.

Dean Sobon is the director of the production, and Kerry Lambert is choreographer.

Rounding out the cast are Wesley Drummon, Carver Duncan, Matt Casey, Ben Cramer, William Leonard, Max King, Keirsten Benzing, Diane Huber, Danielle Barnes, Kelsey Beckert, Avery Bryce Epstein, Corinne Munsch, Glenn Britton, Sean Cleary, Marty Craft, Joshua Kolberg, Corey John Hafner, Olin Davidson, Michael Weaver, and Dustin and Courtney Cunningham.

Tickets are $29, $39 and $49 and are available by calling the box office at 330-744-0264 on online at youngstownsymphony.com. Tickets will also be available at the box office the night of the show.

Powers Auditorium is at 260 W. Federal St., downtown.