Tag: Mamma Mia!

dylanbonner90:

#tbt to seeing #MammaMia in theaters 10 years ago and then seeing it again and again and again and then the sing along version lol still salty about being told not to sing so loudly by the theater employee. The lyrics were on the screen so let’s be real lol. Which of you dancing queens are seeing #MammaMia2 this weekend?! Ugh I’m so excited and I know @lilyjamesofficial is going to be fabulous as young Donna Sheridan (you shady lady!) lol gaaah can’t wait #mammamiaherewegoagain 💃👑🇬🇷

the-mad-prince-of-denmark:

maddie-grove:

Is Mamma Mia! is a lost Shakespeare comedy/romance?

Evidence for:

  • It’s set on an idyllic Mediterranean island.
  • The plot revolves around a bunch of ridiculous misunderstandings.
  • The night of the bachelor and bachelorette parties functions as a “liminal space” that allows the characters to throw off the veneer of civilization and realize things about themselves.
  • A major theme is the return of a loved one who was thought to be lost forever (as in The Tempest and A Winter’s Tale).
  • The timeline is confusing. (Donna appears to have been in some 1960s/1970s-style band at the time of Sophie’s conception, even though Sophie must have been born in the late 1980s; similarly, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, nunneries are mentioned despite the ostensibly ancient Greek setting.) 
  • There are songs.

Evidence against:

  • The dialogue is really bad.
  • There aren’t enough dick jokes.
  • All of the songs are by ABBA, a musical group that was not active in the early modern era.

Conclusion:

  • Shakespeare wrote a comedy/romance with the same plot and characters as Mamma Mia! (called The Three Gentleman Suitors); however, all manuscripts of this play were lost, and the only version that survives is an imperfect illicit transcription of the play by one of his rivals. Through the years, this transcribed version was further changed in accordance with popular tastes (losing the dick jokes in the Victorian Era) and eventually got adapted into an ABBA jukebox musical (mainly because it was in the public domain). 

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ameliasscanwells:

I’ve seen people saying that Cher playing Meryl Streep’s mother in the Mamma Mia sequel stretches credulity because they’re the same age IRL, and to that I say: do you even go here? No one is going to see Mamma Mia 2: Here We Go Again for realism or accuracy or good casting. This is a sequel ten years in the making to a movie musical from 2008 in which Pierce Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgård. and Colin Firth danced around in sequined disco outfits singing ABBA’s “Waterloo.” A movie in which Julie Walters does a split-second Elvis impression while singing “Dancing Queen.” A movie with an entire musical number dedicated to the fact that Christine Baranski’s milkshake brings all the boys to the yard. No one is watching this movie for quality, you fools. We are here to act stupid in public and sing along (badly) to ABBA. The camp is a feature, not a bug.