[Broadway Friday] Mama Mia!
Show: Mama Mia!
Type: Broadway Musical
Welcome to another day at Broadway Friday!
The spotlight of the week goes to Mama Mia!
This show uses mainly ABBA’s music, and it’s a very well made production with focus on a young girl who grows up under the care of her single mother.
This has closed in September of 2015 after 14 long years of running, and it’s kinda sad to know that a good show has come to a close.
For those of you that have watched the movie version, I’m not saying that the movie is a bore, but…….. The movie is a bore. Once I watched the Broadway version of Mama Mia!, and tried to watch the movie afterwards, I just couldn’t stand the movie itself not even 3 minutes in. Why is that? I couldn’t connect to the characters on the personal level! With live performances, the actors were actually selling their characters to me so well that I just fell in love with the show! But when Ii tried to watch the movie, I just couldn’t connect to the characters. Not. One. Bit.
For those of you that don’t know the story of Mama Mia!, as I have stated early on in the blog, it revolves around a young woman named Sophie, who is to get married soon to her fiancé, Sky. But because she doesn’t have a father and her mother never once talks about him, she decides to go through a journal, a diary, that her mother wrote years and years ago. Through reading her mother’s diary, Sophie discovers that she has three different possibilities of who her father may be, and this is revealed in “Honey, Honey” number. With knowing she has three different possibilities for a father, she invites them all to her wedding in hopes of discovering who her birth father is.
As the story goes along, it turns out that even Sophie’s mother actually has a dream of her own, which is to marry a rich man and just play around and have a ball. But because her dream is far too out of reach, she comes to admit that the easiest way to become rich is probably to go to some place like Las Vegas and Monaco and start gambling her way to the top. Of course, not all secrets can be kept in the dark for she discovers her daughter’s secret later on through Mama Mia number.
For Sophie, trying to find out exactly which of the three men she invited is her father becomes tougher from her day to day life where as it becomes days of rekindling with one of her old loves for Sophie’s mother. But the problems don’t stop there for Sky finds out Sophie’s intentions in terms of why she invited the three men she has and what her behind the agenda for the wedding truly is.
Even though the movie isn’t all that good (or at all, even, really), but if you want to know what happens and listen to some real good ABBA music, go watch Mama Mia! on at least the film!
