Last night I went to the preview of calls (just to make glucagon) Mamma Mia!, The film based on the musical based on the compilation of hits of Abba.
With Abba in general have a very long and complex relationship: I remember them in 1974 when they won the Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo (which, not knowing at the time in English, sang "Honolulu" - among other things me and my cousin Gabriel went for theaters not bad on the back of the shed at my grandmother's house). Beautiful crochet hat and Agneta pirate trousers with satin ... I think one of the first records that I did was buy Knowing me, Knowing you (ha-haaaaaa) whose back was just Mamma Mia. And I remember that I listened with some concern because SOS ' published in Italy on 45 laps, the record company had as its symbol a shovel and a miner's helmet: I immediately think the worst and worried about everything I imagined chissacche '... Then came
Voulez-vous Gimme Gimme Gimme and I remember acosltato nausea Super Trouper (which, let's face it, even c'aveva on silly things, like 'the Piper'...). Once in 'The Visitor' there 'I have more' done, and though with regret, I broke up with Abba.
Fast forward to the '90s and I think we all have at least one copy of Abba Gold More Gold and maybe ... them 'down' nostalgia. I remember the Roxy in the back room, made even one theme evenings ... June and I 'with my hairdresser friend dancing sca-te-na-tis-si-me (crazy crazy on the terrace, and 'the case to say that).
So, we are now around '98 or '99 and my husband we propose to conduct the American premiere of Mamma Mia. As a good musician's Abba did not know who they were virtually even: so that summer I made the famous' great head '(not scallop ) on this side of Abba, Abba of the', Bjorn Benni, Agneta and Frida ( !). Well, what it 'as not' part of me and I went to Toronto where they put up the musical. I'll save you the trip up and down 'from Toronto every two weeks ... But 'the satisfaction of having met the Swedes their' in person ... ooohhh ... what ... and then the Frida 'was a vision! C'haveva on this black dress with wings pipstrello very Escada (well, living in Switzerland), not even a wrinkle (I told you live in Switzerland): a vision of the whole class (but always in Switzerland ', eh?) . Among other things I'm doing a figure a bit 'from dick while she talks to Eddie (my husband) and I will' to look like an idiot ... "I know, are lookving vat at?" I am ... and I said "you are FRIDA !"... and her (great lady, of course) and does not bat an eyelid "let's take picture ...
So the music is not 'Aida, much less The Valkyries: e' a greatest hits album by sewing a story that holds firm even with crutches. Pero 'has had a few merits: first sold lots of tickets opened so many places ... and then began a genre: the musical compilation in a time of crisis in black theater (at least here in America) and 'managed to give a little' breathing.
The film is not 'less to charity' ... Meryl Streep and 'in shape (although it does not hold the notes' The Winner Takes It All'), Pierce Brosnan sings like a moose, Christine Barantski and 'beautiful, Colin Firth and' also credible in the former lover hours gay. The coreagrafie are identical to the musical, the sequence and dialogues as well ... maybe some point change ... but 'there' chemistry between the protagonists and the film does not hold the paper barely two hours. Yet you are having fun, we are moved, you want to get up and start dancing with a photograph that becomes the film in a long Mulino Bianco Spot type: short, sbanchera 'the box office, buy the soundtrack, t-shirt and go home all singing in chorus "You are the only ... daaaaancing queeeeeeeeen seventeeeeeeeen"
Thank you for the music.
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