The musical "Mamma Mia" is sung in 240 cities around the world and in 13 languages. Viewed by more than 42 million people. The story takes place between a bride's mother and three men who may be the bride's father. The bride Sophie hoped to find her biological father on her wedding day, but she never expected that her life and family would change dramatically in the next 24 hours. The 22 popular classic hits of the super band ABBA are used throughout the play, conveying a happy attitude towards life to every audience. As a century-old theater, Broadway can find its own symbols in every era. The dazzling array of classic plays is like a coordinate system, dividing Broadway into different eras. In the 1930s, there was "All Is Lost", and in the 1940s, there was "The Russians". Oklahoma", there was "Chicago" in the 1960s, "Cats" in the 1980s, and "Crazy About You" in the 1990s. The world-renowned musical "Mamma Mia" represents the artistic style of Broadway in the 21st century. (Mamma Mia!). The story tells the story of a mother and daughter who make a living by opening a restaurant on a Greek island. Her daughter is about to get married, and she hopes that her father can personally hand over her hand to her husband on the wedding day, but unfortunately her mother never tells her who her father is. So before getting married, she peeked into her mother's diary and found that her mother had three lovers who were most likely her biological father. In desperation, she sent three invitations based on the old mail addresses she found. They attend her wedding. Unbeknownst to her mother, the heroine's "three" fathers arrived on the island the day before the wedding. The three men all returned to this Greek island with different moods. They all remembered their relationship with the heroine's mother twenty years ago. Since the three fathers landed on the island, the climax has come one after another. The audience is also anxious for the heroine. Who is her biological father? The audience is worried about the heroine's mother. She meets these three old lovers again without knowing it. Will she anger her daughter? How does she face these three old lovers? As for the three men who are most likely to be the heroine's father, which one is the real father? Will this wedding turn from a happy event into a "pot of porridge"? … Premiere: 1999 (London) 2001 (Broadway) Lyricist: Benny Andersson/Bjom Ulvaeus Stig Anderson Screenwriter: Catherine Johnson History 1999 Premiered at the Prince Edward Theater in London's West End. It was an unprecedented sensation. Celebrities from all walks of life flocked to watch it together with ordinary audiences. It broke the London box office record and even paralyzed London traffic. In 2001, it entered Broadway and performed nearly 2,000 times, becoming one of the longest-running musicals on Broadway, surpassing the classic "The Sound of Music". 2002 Nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Tony Award for Best Musical. In 2004, the Korean version of Mamma Mia! set a record for Korean dramas. The support of Korean music brings a new oriental style to Mamma Mia! In 2006, the Swiss version won the Golden Face Award: Best Music, Best Actress in a Musical, Best Supporting Actress in a Musical, Best Director of a Musical, and Best Background Design. 2007 Hollywood actor Tom Hanks is optimistic about Mamma Mia!, has adapted the play, and will put the play on the Hollywood screen in 2007. In 2010, it has toured 240 cities around the world, from Las Vegas in the United States to Seoul and Tokyo. 42 million audiences around the world laughed for it. It achieved a global box office of 2 billion and won the title of "The World's No. 1 Musical". The musical "Mamma Mia" already has 13 language versions: English, German, Japanese, Dutch, Korean, Spanish, Swedish, Flemish, Russian, Norwegian, Italian (under production), Danish (under production), French (under production).

The Chinese version will be Mamma Mia! The 14th language version in the extended family. There are currently 10 different performance versions of the musical "Mamma Mia" being staged simultaneously in different parts of the world, including London, Broadway, Mexico, Australia, the Netherlands, Spain, South Korea, Japan, the United States and international tours. There are also 5 versions coming soon, Copenhagen version, Paris version, Milan version, South Africa tour version and China version. Evaluation: "ABBA has an amazing talent for music, and it is uncontrollable at once." The musical "Mamma Mia": a world popular element. British journalist Mark Shanton witnessed the musical "Mamma Mia" from its premiere in 1999 to today. There is no musical performance in the world that can match this scale. It was March 22, 1999, when the musical "Mamma Mia" encountered its first and most crucial test - facing a paying audience in London for the first time - and they were also received by the audience as always. The welcome has been every night and every show since. But before that, on a London spring night, everything was completely unpredictable. "We really didn't know whether it would be accepted by the audience." Producer Judy Craymer's original idea was to put the songs of the ABBA group exactly 10 years ago into a new and original format-a musical. “The audience went crazy,” she recalled happily. “They literally jumped out of their seats, danced in the aisles, and sang their hearts out. It still does, every night. Now, they This practice has spread all over the world and has become a global entertainment phenomenon; there is a very natural foundation behind this phenomenon, and the creators have never strayed from the goal they want to achieve, that is, to use a kind of entertainment. A fresh, lively and direct approach to personalizing a familiar program, especially ABBA's songs, while maintaining the integrity of its pop music, and with an extra effort, it's good music. But even though the songs were given priority in this case—Craymer had a genius for figuring out how these earlier songs could be used. The potential value of the musical - she also had to find a way to unlock these potentials and carry them through a strong story "I knew from the beginning of the musical Mamma Mia, it was not just about re-arranging ABBA. Music, or as simple as a tribute performance," she commented. "The story must be presented in a highly infectious way that matches ABBA's music, and it must be found in a way that is easy for people to accept. However, this was easier said than done, and it took Craymer ten years to bring it to the stage. In order to be a good producer, when she was the stage manager of the original London production of "Cats", After attending (at least backstage) another musical, West End, she joined Tom Rice's production company, where she met Benny Andersson as executive producer of West End. She was completely smitten by Benny and Bj?rn in "CHESS", Ulvaeus's first performance after the disbandment of ABBA. For Bj?rn, it was "CHESS" that was destined to be bad luck on Broadway. The show taught him an important life lesson: “My understanding of story after CHESS was first, second, third, as they say on Broadway. The lyrics move the story forward, and many of the songs are noise with little drama. "The playwright Catherine Johnson was commissioned to write a book about the musical Mamma Mia, and luckily she found a lot of drama in it and managed to extract it. Not only the story itself, but she also found other Important things: In the early days, ABBA's songs were more natural, ignorant, and innocent, suitable for teenagers. However, later ABBA became more mature and philosophical, and of course these songs were sung by female voices.

She therefore suggested telling the story to focus on two women of different ages, a mother and her daughter. Ulvaeus insists that the lyrics cannot be arbitrarily tampered with, and so does his part, "The story is far more important than the song." But for Johnson, the challenge was that “no matter what the story was about, I always came back to the songs.” She was determined to avoid the mistakes that had plagued musicals for years: “I didn’t want to be in those disgusting What's most important to me is that I create believable characters and integrate them into a story line, and I certainly try to tie the story and the songs together perfectly. "The next thing Craymer started to do was find a good captain for this musical ship: a director. Although Phyllida Lloyd had never directed a musical, Craymer instinctively felt that she and Lloyd were the perfect fit for the project. With her own background in theater and opera, Craymer accepted the challenge and did what she could to help— The actor creates the character, plays the story - and everything falls into place. When a good director has laid the groundwork for the project, it's time to take off. Things did not go as smoothly as expected. Craymer wrote: "I am relieved that the success of the musical "Mamma Mia" is the result of an unprecedented collaboration between three women. This is not intended to discriminate against men." Facts. On stage, the friendship between three best friends - Donna and Dynamo (mother, daughter, sister?) - is a reflection of the show's creators themselves. Craymer emphasized: "We see ourselves in the three women in the play, because Catherine is a somewhat disorganized single mother, I am the pampered type, and Phyllida is the typical pragmatist." However, The secret to a successful performance is not that the creator can find his own projection on the stage, but whether the audience can find it. Phyllida Lloyd wrote: "In Catherine Johnson's original story, the audience enjoys a special experience - seeing themselves on the stage." In the process, the song is reborn, and the theme of the performance - Parents find their own identities and generation gaps - creating a universal buzz. As Johnson said, "There's a mother-daughter relationship, a nostalgic romance, someone being lost and being found again. All kinds of things can be related to everyone." What this show shows is that People's real lives in real situations, while the melodies of pop music set the soundtrack for the generation of the 1970s and early 1980s, and the soundtrack in the performance seemed to cross the boundaries of eras and countries. The essence of what it wants to convey is vividly demonstrated through the logo of the musical Mamma Mia - a timeless picture of a wedding that contains joy, even carnival. As the show represents, the image of Mamma Mia the Musical is widely recognized in cities around the world. This show also brought the worlds of pop music and musical theater together harmoniously and inseparably: indeed, in the 1930s and 1940s, pop music came from the world of musicals - an ever-changing product of Broadway or Hollywood, but popular music Music gained dominance in the 1950s and 1960s, and musicals were left to develop independently, taking a complicated and tortuous path. The musical "Mamma Mia" is sophisticated but not arrogant. It brings back familiar pop music classics and brings music back to the theater with songs that people know and love. Craymer attributed the success of the show first to the collaborators in all areas of the show's production. "They created a chemical reaction, and it was the incredible sincere cooperation that provided impetus for the progress in all areas of the production." These include the crucial and highly skilled creative contributions of set design (Mark Thompson), lighting (Howard Harrison), musical design (Andrew Bruce and Bobby Aitken) and choreography (Anthony van Laast).

For her, it’s “to have the courage to believe in everything we do—the music, the stories, and the talent around me. And of course, keep a sense of humor and have inexhaustible energy at all times.” However, energy not only comes from the adrenal glands, but also from passionate works like the musical "Mamma Mia." The quality of Mamma Mia the Musical is that the infectious passion can flow from the stage to the audience and back again, creating a never-ending cycle of energy, inspiring body tremors and joy. As director, Phyllida Lloyd summed up the musical "Mamma Mia" succinctly and concisely: "This performance was something Bj?rn and Benny never expected when they wrote the song. Their music created the history of pop music, and our performance Making musical theater history ” story