
This 5th anniversary edition includes a booklet with cast photographs, three bonus tracks ("Mamma Mia," "Dancing Queen," and "Waterloo"), and a bonus DVD featuring interviews, opening night footage, and show clips.
Product Description:
To commemorate MAMMA MIA’s 5th anniversary on Broadway, Decca Broadway is releasing a limited edition CD + DVD package on October 17. The CD package includes a booklet with cast photographs, the music from the best-selling Original Cast album, plus 3 finale bonus tracks: "Mamma Mia", "Dancing Queen" and "Waterloo". The bonus DVD includes exclusive interviews, opening night footage, show clips from around the world and more!
Put together by Abba's own Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, Mamma Mia! manages to cram over 20 of the Swedish supergroup's songs into a threadbare plot. It goes a little like this: Young Sophie is getting married and she's trying to identify which of three men is her father. That's about it. Wisely, the musical doesn't mess around with the songs, save for the insertion of some dialogue or for having some of them performed by a man (it works amazingly well). Abba fans will jump on this import of the London production, but traditional fans of musical theater should consider it as well. After all, Andersson and Ulvaeus's songs have always felt as if they were more than isolated pop gems and actually belonged to a longer narrative.