Mama Mia Research Paper

I have chosen “Mamma Mia”, a fictional story inspired by the music of the Swedish pop group, ABBA. The title of the musical is one of the group’s songs, and it sung throughout the show. I chose it because I saw it pretty recently with one of my closest friends, and it opened up a world of new love and appreciation for Broadway and Musical Theatre to me, even though I loved it already. It’s hard to talk about the musical without mentioning the history of the hugely successful group, ABBA. “Mamma Mia” was inspired by the music of ABBA, and, the score of the musical consisted of only ABBA’s music. The band was made up of members Agnetha Faltskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Benny Anderson, and Bjorn Ulvaeus. Their music could be described as disco and dance. It was upbeat and happy. Their style was perfect for the disco glam era. Throughout most of their career as a group, Faltskog and Ulvaeus were romantically involved, as well as Lyngstad and Anderson. When both relationships failed, the group’s …show more content…
Since then, it’s been performed in over forty countries. It was played for the first time in the US in San Francisco, CA, at the Orpheum Theatre. It played there for three months, before moving to the Shubert Theatre in Los Angeles. After that, it was moved to the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. On Broadway, it was originally played at the Winter Garden Theater. The Winter Garden Theater moved “Mamma Mia” to the Broadhurst Theater in order for “Rocky” to be produced there. On October 19th, 2013, they played their last show at the Winter Garden Theater and started performing at the Broadhurst Theater on November 2, 2013. They’ve been playing there ever since. “Mamma Mia” has also been performed in a total of fourteen different languages all over the world: Swedish, Dutch, Flemish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Chinese, French, Danish, Italian, German, Korean, Japanese, Russian, and