Mamma Mia Play Analysis

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On October 4, 2016, I went and saw Mamma Mia at 8:00pm at the Lutcher Theatre. This show was performed by Work Light Productions. Mamma Mia is a musical about a girl who is about to get married, Sophie, and wants to know who her father is so he can walk her down the aisle. The only problem is that her mom hasn’t told her much about her father so she doesn’t even know a possible name until she finds one of her mom’s old journals. She finds three possible father’s and invites them all. Her friends, Ali and Lisa, then try to help her discover who is the right one. At the same time the mom, Donna, and her two friends, Tanya, and Rosie are trying to keep them from ruining Sophie’s wedding. When the wedding comes Donna admits to Sophie her dad’s, Sam, …show more content…
Sophie admits to her mom she invited them , and they all make an agreement that they don’t need to find out for sure so they all share Sophie. Sophie then calls off the wedding so her and her fiancé, Sky, can go travel like he wants. In the end, Donna ends up marrying Harry, and Rosie ends up dating Bill.
In the play, the actors were very believable. One example of this is when Donna finds out all three guys are staying in her villa. She gets really upset, and Tanya and Rosie, her friends, go to comfort her. I got the impression that she was really upset and troubled by this situation in her life. Another example of this is when Sophie is at her bachelorette party and all three of her possible father’s tell her that they will be at the wedding to walk her down the aisle. She was very confused and didn’t know what to do. As everyone is dancing around her I could tell that she was trying to figure out what to do, and that she was very stressed out. Donna was the mother in the musical. She was devoted to getting this wedding put on for Sophie no matter what, and made all the last minute repairs possible. She didn’t want her three former lovers to get in the way of the wedding either. One of those guys

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