Seven Brides For Seven Brothers at the Theatre Royal Brighton
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Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, the classic American musical, has been given an award-winning makeover with stunning new choreography by acclaimed Broadway director and choreographer, Patti Colombo.
Starring Dancing On Ice Champion Sam Attwater and Helena Blackman, runner-up in BBC1’s How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?, this breathtaking new version of Seven Brides For Seven Brothers visits Theatre Royal Brighton for one week only from Mon 7 – Sat 12 April.
Adam, the eldest of seven brothers living on an isolated mountain farm, goes to town to find a wife. Convincing Milly to marry him that very same day, he forgets to mention he has six other younger, rowdy brothers – and that they all live together. Milly, shocked at first, decides to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading about the Roman capture of the Sabine women, Adam has what he thinks is an inspired solution to his brothers’ loneliness – they will kidnap the women they want, carrying them off from their families in the night, together with a pastor to marry them! But pursued by the townsfolk, a massive avalanche means they are all trapped together for months before the winter snow melts…
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers features 16 timeless classics, including ‘Bless Your Beautiful Hide’, ‘A Woman Ought To Know Her Place’ and ‘Goin’ Courtin’’ as well as two new songs never heard before in any UK stage version of the show.
Sam Attwater (Adam) played Ricky in Hollyoaks. The following year he joined EastEnders and its online spin-off, EastEnders: E20, as Leon Small. He played Brad Majors in the 40th anniversary tour of The Rocky Horror Show and also appeared in Dreamboats And Petticoats in the West End, Tonight’s The Night and 20th Century Boy.
Helena Blackman (Milly) was Gypsy Rose Lee in Gypsy at the Wales Millennium Centre, Dorothy in an acclaimed run of The Wizard Of Oz at Leicester Haymarket Theatre, and toured the UK as Nellie Forbush in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific. She also played Gertie in Noel & Gertie at the Cockpit in London and was in The Secret Garden at West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Patti Colombo was hailed by The Wall Street Journal as “one of the finest choreographers in the business”. Her choreography for Seven Brides For Seven Brothers has received numerous awards.
Don’t miss this stunning production when it visits Theatre Royal Brighton from Monday 7 April.
To book tickets: 0844 871 7650*
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