My, Oh My!

Mamma Mia is a lively, colourful night out with a charming story about one girl's quest to learn who her father really is and on the eve of her wedding day. Great, classic songs from the 70s band Abba are creatively woven into this tale about young love, old love, and the ones we leave behind.

Taking place at one independent woman's hotel on a Greek island, the plot thickens as her daughter, Sophie Sheridan, writes to all of her mother's former lovers. In an effort to know the identity of her biological father, the bride-to-be sends letters to three men that she reads about in her mother's old diary.

Her mother, Donna, stressed out about planning the wedding, but more so at the thought of her daughter growing up too quickly, soon realizes that her past has come back to haunt her. All three of her former boyfriends have arrived on the island for the wedding, each one initially thinking they were invited by the mother herself.

The collection of men, an outback travel writer, a former head banger-turned-office man, and an architect who was the one that got away, form an interesting bunch of unexpected hotel guests who easily gain the friendship of Sophie and inspire the soulful singing of “Mamma Mia” by Donna.

The three men quickly realize they have been tricked, but taken over by nostalgia and in need of a break from their daily lives, they decide to stay for the wedding. As it becomes even clearer why they are there (the last time they had visited the island was 21 years ago and Donna's daughter is 20...), things become even messier.

It's sort of like My Big Fat Greek Wedding, but set to an Abba album as the soundtrack. With sexual innuendos cleverly woven into the script, and others rather outwardly expressed, dialogue between the mother and her two old friends, as well as between the daughter and her wedding guests, is funny and full of surprises.

One of the mother's friends is a great comic relief, as a bit chubbier author of a cooking book, and when she steps out into a 70s silver jump suit, the expression on her face is priceless.