If you love Mamma Mia !, you’re gonna love Mamma Mia ! With the touring production of the hit ABBA musical making a six-month stop on Broadway , the flawed, fun-loving show returns to the venue – the Winter Garden Theatre – where it held sway back when the century was new.
The ninth-longest running Broadway show of all time, Mamma Mia! ran for 14 years at the Winter Garden following its opening shortly after the Towers fell. This touring production’s stop at the Garden has all the makings of a homecoming, and it’s a strenuously joyous one.
Well, joyous if you’re a Mamma Mia! fan, more strenuous if you’re not, and by now it seems likely that everyone knows to which group they belong. Judging by the audience responses at the reviewed performance, Mamma Mia! is calling its f