Mamma Mia, Here I go again, my, my - Sat Jul 30, 2005 E-mail
With my girls getting bigger, we don't so much stuff as a family any more. But that changed with Mum coming to live with us from Freeport. It's really exciting, even at this stage, to introduce my 70-something year old mother to things that she has never experienced before. Everyone gets a thrill out of it.

One of my girls has a friend who is a promotions director for the National Arts Center. My daughter recently helped this girl get over a nasty relationship breakup. Helping this girl had some good consequences.

The Broadway smash musical "Mamma Mia" came to town, and the whole Lurker extended family went, courtesy of this friend who gave us free orchestra seating worth hundreds of dollars. There was me and my girlfriend, Mum and Miss Knowlton, and my two girls and their boyfriends.

I never listened to ABBA music, but it has been on the radio so much, that everyone knows the words and the tune. I was wondering if Mum knew them or paid attention to them in the 1970's in the Bahamas.

The whole musical is based on a very comedic premise of a woman who has a fling with three gentlemen on the same night on a Greek isle in the 1970's. She becomes pregnant, but is not sure by whom.

Twenty years later, the daughter is getting married and finds her Mum's diary. She invites all three gentlemen to the wedding on that same Greek island, where her mother established a tavern after she delivered her child. Almost every single big Abba song is incorporated into the play, from Momma Mia, to SOS, to Super Trouper, Dancing Queen. It was a gas.

I looked over at Mum and she was enthralled, entranced. She was clapping away, and at the finale, she was out of her seat, bopping and dancing like the rest of the audience.

Again, she was in tears on the way home -- tears of happiness she said, because she never expected to see a real Broadway show, with the real Broadway actors, and it was like nothing she had ever seen before. She said that a Broadway musical is better than the movies.

This morning, Mum brought me coffee to my computer, and asked me to look up some more musicals on the Internet. It was heartwarming, but there is a fly in the ointment. To get into the big city, Mum has to drive on a 4 lane highway. With her learner's permit and graduated license, she is not allowed to do so for another year (until after December actually). She buzzed over to Miss Knowlton with the theatre schedule that I printed off. She is there now. I have a sneaking suspicion that Miss Knowlton and Mum are going to make a lot more trips into the city. Miss Knowlton will do the driving.

As to the musical, the music wasn't really music -- it was kiddie pop. But I had to admit, it was one hell of a musical. And I still een into ABBA. Somehow listening to ABBA does something to your manhood. *singing** Mamma Mia ... Here I go again, my my .. (there is a good description of the show at www.mamma-mia.com )
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