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Mamma Mia!
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Musical 2: Buy tickets online Prince of Wales Theatre Nearest Tube: Piccadilly Circus |
Show times Runs 2 hours and 45 minutes including one interval Seat prices |
On a tiny Greek island a wedding is about to take place...
Mamma Mia! is ABBA's greatest hits woven into 3 wonderful love stories: A young girl about to be married; her mother about to confront the past; and the best love story of all - the audience about to jump out of their seats with joy!
Mamma Mia! originally opened on 6 April 1999 at the Prince Edward Theatre, it then transferred to the newly refurbished Prince of Wales Theatre on 3 June 2004 where it continues to play to sell-out audiences.
"Sheer heaven! An irresistibly enjoyable hit! Catherine Johnson's witty and ingenious script weaves the famous ABBA songs around characters you care about. At the end the whole audience is on its feet and swaying blissfully along to the hits. What a pleasure it is to see that girl, watch that scene and dig the dancing queen!" The Daily Telegraph
"Thank you for the musical! The fun of this show lies in the skill and wit with which the songs are fitted into the story, not just as decorations, but moving it along, almost as if they had been written for it. Audiences rise to Mamma Mia! like a thunderstorm" The Sunday Times
"ABBA-solutely fabulous!" The Daily Mail
"Mamma Mia! at the Prince of Wales Theatre, is a surefire hit. Stringing together a large number of Abba songs might alone have guaranteed a success, but Catherine Johnson, who has written the book, has done better than that. She hasn't attempted anything deep, dark, svelte or artistic: there is no contravention of the Abba ethos. She has produced a buoyant, celebratory piece which contains both irony and soppiness, the tacky and the wholesome, and which bounces 22 Abba numbers into the audience... Johnson's most inventive move is to make her musical into a game in which the audience tries to guess which song is coming, as the plot sneaks up on and finally snares a well-known number." The Observer
Mamma Mia! opened 6 April 1999, closed 27 May 2004 at the Prince Edward Theatre in London, transferred 9 June 2004 to the Prince of Wales Theatre in London.
