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July 17, 2006

Dancing Queen

By Stephen Boudreau at 11:24 AM| Permalink | Comments (3)

Shelley and I went and saw the musical "Mamma Mia" at Fair Park yesterday. I didn't know much about the show before we went, but had read some rave reviews - so I was optimistic. As it turned out, I would rate it as a mediocre (yet quite humorous) show - but there was one very interesting surprise.

The entire show was based around the music of "Abba". One of the members of Abba had taken a bunch of their songs and weaved a story around them that he turned into a Broadway hit and worldwide-touring musical. I think that's pretty fun. The story itself had a lot of promise- but the ending is extremely anti-climatic. It felt like the ending of a Mexican soap opera with all the loose ends being tied up in neither predictable nor unpredictable fashion, just in a dissatisfying and very corny way. (Am I the only one who has ever watched a Mexican soap opera series finale?)

The saving grace for the show was that after the story ends, they reprise some of the best songs from the show. It saved the day for me, in fact. It removed the enormous eye roll I had after the conclusion of the story.

As a fan of Abba's music, that was fun.