"Mamma Mia" question (ref. NYTimes)
"Mamma Mia" question (ref. NYTimes)
#1"Mamma Mia" question (ref. NYTimes)
Posted: 12/29/10 at 12:30am
Okay, I loved "Mamma Mia" -- shoot me!
Oddly, I haven't seen it on Bway (London and on tour a couple of times). Here's the question that one of you fine folks might be able to answer for me, and it references a line from David Itzkoff's ArtsBeat blog post on Playbill making their delivery.
He wrote, "...and audience members at “Mamma Mia!” will know exactly when in Act I they can expect to hear “Dancing Queen.""
Here's my question: When I saw the show, the programs didn't list when the songs were performed, it just listed them in alphabetical order. Does the Broadway program do that differently?
(And I swear I'm not being nit-picky here, or tweaking Itzkoff, I actually like his writing quite a bit! Just curious if they do something different on Broadway.)
Thanks in advance if you can help answer!
#2'Mamma Mia' question (ref. NYTimes)
Posted: 12/29/10 at 12:36am
The songs are listed alphabetically on Broadway as well.
I assume he means that the audience can figure out when it's going to be performed...it's telegraphed pretty obviously in the scene prior to the song. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what they're setting up.
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