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MAMA MIA CAST LIST Donna Maddy Parker TANYA Rosalie Knowlton ROSIE Lillian Gachau SAM Nolan McGonagle BILL Max Waron HARRY Tommy Dolan SOPHIE Chloe Graves SKY Liam McCarthy ALI Delaney Rose LISA Casey Caouette PEPPER Mehki Blanc EDDIE Jordan Rousey FATHER A Emma Rizzo Ensemble Noah Bouffard Zoraiya Burgos Jianna Clouthier Aubrey Demers Sarah Gelardi Katie Hogan Joe Joress Mick Kackley Gio Krettli Autumn Loconto Alex MacDonald Sofia McCarty Patrick Morin Jayden Njoroge Izzy Poplawski Joe Salonis Logan Sinclair Kylie St. Laurent Mara Weber Celia Ares Austin Bass Chloe Beauregard Abigayle Carter Bailey Chaplin Kyla Davis Paige Leone Max Lucey Mykayla Mahlert Abi McGarry Isabella Mello Maliya Pablico Ruby Paradis Kassandra Peloqiun Sofia Poplawski Abby Ruda Kyra Santora Sienna Shroyer Kylie St. Laurent Sarah Starczewski Ethan Streriti Kelsey Taparausky Lileigh Wheaton Charlotte White Alayna Zambrana Elizabeth McCloud Emily Arnold Cayleigh Mayen Samara Doane CREW Stage Lead: Ola Jaroszewski Assistant Stage Lead: Stage Crew: Kammi Iwanski Lights: Paige Cameron Sound: Becky Bussiere Director Becky Bussiere Choreography Abbie White Cora Dubey Becky Bussiere |
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https://shepherdhillchoirs.ticketleap.com/ May 10th at 7:00pm May 11th at 2:00 pm Music and Lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and some songs with Stig Anderson Book by Catherine Johnson Originally conceived by Judy Craymer Additional material and arrangements from Martin Koch Mamma Mia! was originally produced in London by Judy Craymer, Richard East, and Björn Ulvaeus for Littlestar in association with Universal. Music published by Universal Music Publishing Group and EMI Grove Park Music Inc. and EMI Waterford Music Inc. A GUARANTEED, GET-HAPPY, DANCING-IN-THE-AISLES HIT! A mother, a daughter, three possible fathers, and a trip down the aisle you’ll never forget! Sophie, a 20-year-old bride-to-be, is on the search for her father. After reading her mother’s diary, she discovers there are three potential candidates. As the big day draws near, surprises abound with old flames and old friends. Escape with this story of love, laughter, and friendship! Packed with ABBA’s most beloved songs, Mamma Mia! Is the ultimate feel-good show! Featuring 22 ABBA hits, including “Dancing Queen,” “Super Trouper,” “Take A Chance on Me,” and “The Winner Takes It All.” This global sensation will have you shouting “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” more! Content guide: This production contains adult humor and content, some coarse language and put downs, and moments of physical intimacy. DRAMTURGY Based on music from Swedish pop group ABBA, the hit jukebox musical Mamma Mia! follows the story of a mother and her soon-to-be married daughter as they reevaluate what “family” means. The Swedish pop band ABBA came together fifty years ago, in 1972. ABBA members Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson met and began to write music together in 1966, though at the time they were members of separate bands. In 1969 the pair met solo singers Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad (known as Frida). The four began to collaborate on music immediately, and romance blossomed soon after. Ulvaeus married Fältskog in 1971. Andersson and Lyngstad began a relationship around the same time and got married in 1978. At first, the four collaborated by helping each other with songwriting, production, and instrumental backing in their solo or duo musical acts. In time, the two couples began experimenting with performing together. Eventually the four musicians gave themselves the name ABBA—a name they arrived at by combining their first initials. In 1974, ABBA entered Swedish song competition Melodifestivalen with their song “Waterloo.” The song was an instant hit, and it became the Swedish entry in that year’s Eurovision song competition. “Waterloo” won the Eurovision Song Contest, catapulting ABBA into the European spotlight and making “Waterloo” the number one song in European song charts. The song even reached the Top Ten in the United States, despite Eurovision’s relative obscurity here in the 1970s. A year and a half later, the band released their third album, ABBA, which included worldwide number one hits “SOS” and “Mamma Mia.” Over the course of the 1970s and early 1980s, ABBA topped the charts all around the world with songs such as “Fernando,” “Take a Chance on Me,” and “Money, Money, Money.” By 1982, the band agreed to take a break from performing and producing music together. Ulvaeus and Fältskog had divorced in 1980 and Andersson and Lyngstad divorced in 1981. The four remained friendly and Ulvaeus and Andersson continued to collaborate in art and music. British playwright Judy Craymer approached Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus about creating a story involving several ABBA songs in 1982. Craymer met Andersson and Ulvaeus while working as Executive Producer on the West End production of the duo’s first post-ABBA project, Chess. After hearing the song “The Winner Takes It All,” Craymer was convinced that ABBA’s music could be made into an amazing theatrical experience. Though the music existed before the show was written, Craymer was adamant that the musical must be much more than an ABBA compilation or tribute show. Andersson, Ulvaeus, and Craymer all agreed that they wanted a story “as infectious as the music” that would be a “feel-good” experience for audiences. Finding the right talent to accomplish that goal took Craymer more than a decade. Craymer eventually commissioned the playwright Catherine Johnson to write the book for Mamma Mia! Johnson found an abundance of emotion and drama in ABBA’s body of work, and was able to create a plot out of the stories in the music. She capitalized on two facts of ABBA’s work as she wrote. First, Johnson found that many of ABBA’s songs told complete stories within themselves. Second, Johnson noticed that ABBA’s music changed over the course of the band’s career. Many of ABBA’s early songs were innocent, care-free, and marked by the excitement and frustration of adolescence. Later songs were mature, contemplative, and seemingly wiser. Given that the songs were sung by women, Johnson created a story about two generations of women, a mother and a daughter, dealing with love and family. Next, Craymer needed a director capable of marrying ABBA’s music to this new story. She found Phyllida Lloyd, who had never directed a musical before. Lloyd, whose own background was in plays and opera, accepted the challenge, knowing that “if she stuck to what she knew – how to help actors create characters and stories – things would be okay.” All three women—Craymer, Johnson, and Lloyd—knew that with their great story and timeless music, a smash hit was brewing. Mamma Mia! opened on April 6th, 1999 in the West End in London. Hugely successful, the musical moved to Broadway on October 18, 2001. By the time it closed on Broadway in 2015, the show had played a total of 5,773 performances, making it the longest-running jukebox musical in Broadway history. Mamma Mia! has played in more than 50 countries on all 6 continents. Over 65 million people have seen the show worldwide. Craymer was delighted at Mamma Mia!’s success, especially viewing it as the result of an unprecedented collaboration of three women. The show has also been celebrated for its portrayal of leading women, with the main characters being a single mother and her daughter. Sophie and Donna affirm that women can follow their goals and enjoy their youth, rather than following traditional paths or doing what is expected. Mamma Mia! offers audiences a refreshing perspective on family as well, highlighting happiness and love in even the most chaotic of family dynamics. In 2008 the show was adapted to film by the original production team and Universal Pictures. The movie starred Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Dominic Cooper, Christine Baranski and Julie Walters. The movie adaptation of Mamma Mia! grossed $615.7 million. The success of the movie inspired a sequel that opened in theaters in 2018. In April 2018, the four members of ABBA announced that they had recorded new music. ABBA released their first new album in 40 years, Voyage, on November 5th, 2021. The group is set to begin a concert residency in London in May 2022 called ABBA Voyage, featuring motion-capture digital avatars of the band members as well as a 10-piece live band. ABBA’s hit songs form the backbone of this feel-good musical, which audiences all over the world have flocked to see. Mamma Mia! Isn’t only popular for the music of ABBA, but also for its message: family doesn’t have to look the way you might expect. MUSICAL NUMBERS Act II Have a Dream ...................………………………….. Sophie Honey Honey ……………………… Sophie, Ali, Lisa, Ensemble Money ……………………………………… Donna and Ensemble Thank You for the Music..........…….. Harry, Bill, Sam, Sophie, Ensemble Mamma Mia ……...…………….. Donna, Harry, Bill, Ensemble Chiquitita …………………….. Rosie, Tanya, Donna, Ensemble Dancing Queen ………………. Rosie, Tanya, Donna, Ensemble Lay All Your Love on Me............... Sky, Sophie, Pepper, Eddie, Ensemble Super Trooper ………………… Donna, Tanya, Rosie, Ensemble Gimme, Gimmie………….... Lisa, Ali, Sophie, Sam, Bill, Harry, Ensemble The Name of the Game ….......………… Sophie, Bill, Ensemble Voulez Vous …………………….. Sky, Eddie, Pepper, Ensemble Act II Under Attack….................……………………. Sophie, Ensemble One of Us ………………...……………………… Donna, Ensemble S.O.S. ……….…………………………….. Sam, Donna, Ensemble Does Your Mother Know …..........……… Tanya, Pepper, Harry, Rosie, Lisa, Ali, Bill, Ensemble Knowing Me, … ………………….........………… Sam, Ensemble Our Last Summer …………..………. Donna, Harry, Ensemble Slipping Through… ……………….................…. Donna, Sophie The Winner Takes it All …………............….. Donna, Ensemble Take a Chance on Me ………..........................……….. Rosie, Bill I Do… …………….....….. Sam, Rosie, Donna, Tanya, Ensemble I Have a Dream ……………......……………… Sophie, Ensemble Mama Mia Bows …..................………………………… Ensemble Dancing Queen Bows ..........................……………….. Ensemble Waterloo …………………………………………............. Ensemble . 
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