Article: `Seven Brides' puts a song in your heart; Chanhassen heads for the hills with frothy entertainment that's short on story but long on heart, dance and song.(VARIETY)

Byline: GRAYDON ROYCE; STAFF WRITER

How fitting that the theater complex once called "The Frontier" should celebrate its 40th year with a hurly-burly hoedown taken from the Wild West. Fiddles rattle, and hoots and hollers bounce off the walls as "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" comes to Chanhassen. This is a musical that makes "Oklahoma!" look positively urban (planted cornfields, indeed!). The Pontipee brothers in 1850 Oregon territory were earthy varmints looking for women to tame their homestead and keep them warm at night. Didn't matter how these rascals got `em -- just so the feminine types would say yes. Director Michael Brindisi writes in his program ...

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