Just got back from seeing Mamma Mia! I was a little disappointed: I think Billy Elliot had set my standard for musicals way too high. I felt the whole show was too understated! I wanted more flashing lights and spontaneous dancing and loud, heartfelt singing! There wasn't that sense of exhilaration upon leaving the theatre that I got from Billy Elliot. I did enjoy it, though. Here comes a plot-spoiler, so if you've never seen Mama Mia and really care...then stop reading here. But I liked how she never finds out who her real father is. Because the whole time, I was thinking it had to be that one guy (sorry, don't remember names) who was the coolest, handsomest, most down-to-earth of the three possibilities. The other two were placed there for comic relief, basically, and so therefore could not be her real dads. I was expecting the whole time for her to find out it was Mr. Down-to-Earth, you know, the one who didn't enjoy getting lapdances from her friends at her bacherlorette party, because he was too mature and father-like to be into that kind of thing. But then it ends--and she still doesn't know! I liked that. It would have been too predictable, otherwise.
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