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On the grand scale of musicals that are perpetually playing in Utah, \u201cSeven Brides for Seven Brothers\u201d probably ranks third (the first two being \u201cJoseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat\u201d and \u201cForever Plaid\u201d). I can\u2019t speak for when it was originally produced, by the play strikes me as exceedingly perverse. Kidnapping your potential bride is not the sort of activity we would generally expect to find in plays that the Mormons<\/a> laud (even if written by Sam Shepherd). So, what is the deal?<\/p>\n

Do Mormons love it just because it is a musical set in the West that isn\u2019t \u201cPaint Your Wagon\u201d? Are we waxing nostalgic for a period when kidnapping and forced marriage could be seen as innocent fun? Or it is something more sinister<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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On the grand scale of musicals that are perpetually playing in Utah, \u201cSeven Brides for Seven Brothers\u201d probably ranks third (the first two being \u201cJoseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat\u201d and \u201cForever Plaid\u201d). I can\u2019t speak for when it was originally produced, by the play strikes me as exceedingly perverse. 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