SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS Opens at Derby Dinner Playhouse Tonight

Derby Dinner Playhouse will close out their 40th Anniversary season with the musical SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS, opening March 31 and running through May 10, 2015. For ticket information please call 812-288-8281 or visit www.derbydinner.com

SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS is a classic American musical that will take you back to the glory days of the movie musical. Full of romance and foot-stomping dances, this is the saga of a young bride in the Oregon wilderness who plans to Apretty up@ her six rowdy brother-in-laws to marry them off. Add an abduction, an avalanche, and a seven shot-gun wedding, and you've got a rip-roaring musical full of boisterous fun!

SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS is based on the popular MGM film and "The Sobbin' Women" by Stephen Vincent Benet. The musical was written by Lawrence Kasha and David Landay with music by Gene dePaul and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS features such musical numbers as We Gotta Make It Through the Winter, A Sobbin' Women, Bless Your Beautiful Hide, and Glad That You Were Born. This production is under the direction of Lee Buckholz with Choreography by Heather Paige Folsom. The cast of 24 will include Jillian Prefach, Edward Miskie, Michael McClure, Jordan Cyphert, Adam Raque, Sara King, and more!

Goin' courting has never been as fun! Come join Derby Dinner Playhouse for wistful ballads, charming comic turns, and show-stopping dance numbers in SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS!