Mamma Mia Tour Review (12.13.09 2PM)

Wow. Good job. First you take photos of the show, which is illegal, then you post them on a forum that industry people read. Smart.

As for the Dad's, Bill is Australian, Harry is English. It's like that in all US productions past, and present. Maybe their accents were just bad.

Really? Must be a new thing. I saw the tour last year and the role was still Australian. Weird.

As for the Dad's, Bill is Australian, Harry is English. It's like that in all US productions past, and present. Maybe their accents were just bad.

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Actually, for all North American productions of MAMMA MIA!, they have changed the role of Bill Austin from Australian to American. They have changed a few of his lines in the script to reflect this.

Yeah, because I was going to say that the Bill said explicitly that he was America.

I think it's stupid & should have stayed Australian.

Bill isn't an Aussie. As I said, the character said that he was from AMERICA.

Egads. I just hope you weren't using flash when taking those shots (or disturbing others around you). Bad form.

Of course I didn't use a flash. Everyone was already up dancing & singing along.

Her bio says Chicago.

So, he took a picture. Who cares? People take pictures of curtain calls all the time. I'm not saying it's right or appropriate or that I would do it myself, but why be so uptight about it?

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BenjaminNicholas2, it HAS changed. Go see the Broadway production or the tour; Bill Austin is now American. This change occurred within the last few months.

I saw this last night, on the fifth performance of the weekend. The cast was noticeably fatigued.

I can't really think of anything nice to say.

This tour needs to hire a personal trainer - and fast. The choreography certainly isn't giving them enough of a work-out, apparently. The road has not been kind to this cast. I don't want to see dumpy chorus members in speedos, thank you very much, I can do that at the Jersey Shore. A few of the cast members were outright obese. And this Sky was no Joe Machota, and the music did not fit his voice (though he was excellent in the Harvey Milk opera) and his costuming did him no favors. Most of the women fared slightly better, looks-wise, at least. I hate to be all John Simon aesthetically-obsessed about it, but there's not much else to do at MM but look at the eye-candy, as it were, and bop along to the tunes.

I was appalled that this was Equity. I've seen tons of non-Eqs over the years and this was much worse than many of them.

There's a lot more I could say but I think that's enough.

P