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OH MY GOD ...
Apr. 23rd, 2002 11:57 pmIt's a pop-band-spawned musical ...
WITH A BOOK!
I didn't know you could do that. Seriously. In college we did Chess (music by Benny & Bjorn of ABBA, lyrics by Tim Rice), and wished we hadn't; two years later, we did The Who's Tommy, which was better but not great. Neither was notable for having a story line the audience gave a damn about. (At least in the case of Tommy the writers didn't much care either. [g])
Tonight I scored a ticket to Mamma Mia! from a co-worker who had to change her plans, and HOT DAMN! Okay, so the plot isn't, you know, Deep and Meaningful or anything, but at least the characters are, like, defined and discrete, and fuck me if they didn't find a way to work in all the songs they used -- for which read all the songs you'd expect them to use in An Evening Of ABBA. ;-)
Except "Waterloo." So they busted that one out in the curtain call. Heh.
I can't stress this enough: if you are on the fence about going to see this thing, waffle no more. GO. Go now. Run, do not walk, to your nearest Ticketmaster and find out when the tour (crackerjack cast, by the way -- yet more ammo in the Fox-needs-to-move-to-Canada-if-she's-to-have-a-theatre-career arsenal, since two out of three of these guys have played the Stratford Festival) will hit your metro area.
Dudes. This show rocks.
WITH A BOOK!
I didn't know you could do that. Seriously. In college we did Chess (music by Benny & Bjorn of ABBA, lyrics by Tim Rice), and wished we hadn't; two years later, we did The Who's Tommy, which was better but not great. Neither was notable for having a story line the audience gave a damn about. (At least in the case of Tommy the writers didn't much care either. [g])
Tonight I scored a ticket to Mamma Mia! from a co-worker who had to change her plans, and HOT DAMN! Okay, so the plot isn't, you know, Deep and Meaningful or anything, but at least the characters are, like, defined and discrete, and fuck me if they didn't find a way to work in all the songs they used -- for which read all the songs you'd expect them to use in An Evening Of ABBA. ;-)
Except "Waterloo." So they busted that one out in the curtain call. Heh.
I can't stress this enough: if you are on the fence about going to see this thing, waffle no more. GO. Go now. Run, do not walk, to your nearest Ticketmaster and find out when the tour (crackerjack cast, by the way -- yet more ammo in the Fox-needs-to-move-to-Canada-if-she's-to-have-a-theatre-career arsenal, since two out of three of these guys have played the Stratford Festival) will hit your metro area.
Dudes. This show rocks.