Musical· 1999· Comedy

Mamma Mia!

by Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson

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Mamma Mia!

Film · 2008

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Phyllida Lloyd's 2008 film adapts the stage musical she had directed since its 1999 London premiere, with Catherine Johnson's book and the ABBA songs by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. Meryl Streep plays Donna, and the plot is the musical's: a daughter invites the three men who could be her father to her wedding on a Greek island.

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Mamma Mia!

A woman about to be married on a Greek island invites three men from her mother's past because she does not know which of them is her father, and her mother does not know they are coming. The plot was built backwards out of ABBA's catalogue, which is why the songs fit, and it created the jukebox musical as a commercial category.