"Mama Mia!"

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This paper examines the musical, "Mama Mia!", and looks at how, set in present times on a small mythical Greek island, the show mingles about 25 ABBA songs into a story of a mother and her soon-to-be-married daughter. It is a frolicking musical that combines a fun and fast-moving yet simple plot, laughs galore, and loads of hits. It looks at some of the history behind the show, the pop group ABBA, and the plot of the story.

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"The cast looks as if it is having as much fun as the audience, while inane things keep on occurring in the contrived and cliche plot. In one scene, Sophie has a nightmare to the music of "Under Attack." In the dream sequence, her groom wears a wedding dress, no less. Actually much of the enjoyment of this show comes from seeing where they are going to place each of the 20-odd songs that are listed in the playbill in alphabetical rather than performance order no one wants the audience to know which tune will come when until seeing the play. The show in fact is making fun of itself as well who would think of a story taking place on a Greek island with the Italian words "MaMa Mia!""

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