Posts Tagged ‘ABBA’
MAMMA MIA!
Monday, November 1st, 2021
Mamma Mia! is back, live on stage in La Mirada, and even if you’re one those who saw it on Broadway (or at any time during its fifteen-plus years of touring the country) and thought “Meh,” you owe it to yourself to see how much better the international megahit can be when freed from its original Broadway direction, choreography, and design.
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MAMMA MIA!
Monday, July 8th, 2019A talented young song-and-dance ensemble and some exhilarating original choreography add up to lively summer fun at Laguna Playhouse for those who don’t mind shelling out big bucks to hear a couple dozen ABBA hits performed to canned karaoke-style backing tracks.
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MAMMA MIA!
Friday, May 17th, 2019
An all-POC cast (primarily Asian, significantly Filipino), inspired direction, electrifying choreography, and the most gorgeous of production designs breathe fresh new life into East West Players’ thrillingly trailblazing Mamma Mia!, the all-around best of the many MM!s I’ve seen.
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MAMMA MIA!
Tuesday, January 15th, 2019Get out your disco boots and spandex as Cupcake Theater gives L.A. audiences their very first chance to enjoy the international megasmash Mamma Mia! up close and personal.
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MAMMA MIA!
Sunday, August 19th, 2018
Fresh new direction/choreography and a look infinitely superior to the Broadway/Tour design that audiences have been seeing since Mamma Mia! first opened back in 2001 are several big reasons to welcome the international megasmash’s arrival at 3-D Theatricals’ stunning new home, the Cerritos Center For The Performing Arts.
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MAMMA MIA!
Monday, June 25th, 2018
No matter how many times you’ve seen Mamma Mia!, you have never seen it as excitingly performed, expertly directed, thrillingly choreographed, or gorgeously designed as it is under Vista skies in its Moonlight Stage Productions SoCal regional debut.
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MAMMA MIA!
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016
Mamma Mia!, the jukebox musical that started it all, has come back to Costa Mesa in its Final Farewell Tour, its return to the Segerstrom Center For The Arts offering the Broadway mega-smash’s mega-multitude of fans not only two dozen of ABBA’s Greatest Hits but one of Thanksgiving week’s Greatest Reasons to give thanks.
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ABBAMEMNON
Sunday, June 15th, 2014
The zanies who call themselves The Troubies have taken the oldest—and in this reviewer’s humble opinion deadly-dullest—theatrical genre, Greek Tragedy, added their own trademark blend of wacky jokes, inspired adlibs (impromptu or scripted, you be the judge), snappy choreography, and best of all the songs of “one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of pop music” (Wikipedia) to come up with ABBAMEMNON, and if the results aren’t as all-around brilliant as their best, the Troubies’ latest is still the most entertaining Greek tragedy this reviewer has ever seen—or may ever see again.
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