BWW Review: MAMMA MIA Tries to Regain Its Youth at Stage West
Mamma Mia is one of those contemporary classics. It's a guaranteed hit anywhere you play it because the songs as recognizable, the story is fun and playful, and it is at once heartfelt and outlandish. But that doesn't mean you can ignore the fact that the dancing is action-packed, the songs have a sincere meaning behind them and Mamma Mia is a well-known musical with expectation in its performance more than most shows.
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30 Days of NYMF: BLACKfootNotes
'I've written a play about four African American women who changed the face of history,' Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj told me bluntly one day during rehearsal for Bubbling Brown Sugar, a concert revival of the show that put Amas on the map all those moons ago, that he was directing for us a couple years back. 'Who are they?' I asked. 'You never heard of them, I promise', he replied. 'Wanna bet?' I said. 'How much?' he challenged. 'I'll do a reading of it IF I lose', was my offer. 'VERY COOL!' he says … 'Here they are: Eliza Anna Grier, Geraldine Pittman Woods, Jane Cooke Wright, and Evelyn Boyd Granville.'