![]() Saturday's Warrior was first performed in California in 1973 as a college project. It depicts abortion and birth control as being contrary to the divine plan of salvation. The musical explores the Latter-day Saint doctrines and views on the premortal life, foreordination, and eternal marriage. Although no explicit time frame is given in the dialogue, certain contextual clues (in particular, a song that references the Zero population growth movement) suggest that the story takes place in the then-current and then-recent period of the late 1960s or early '70s, similar to other religious musicals such as Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar. Two of the children, Jimmy and Julie, encounter personal struggles that help them rediscover and fulfill their foreordained missions in life. The musical tells the story of a group of children that are born into a Latter-day Saint family after making various promises in the premortal life. ![]() Saturday's Warrior is a religious-themed musical written by Douglass Stewart and Lex de Azevedo about a family who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
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