Mamma Mia!   

Performing at: Mandalay Bay Convention Ctr

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Break out your bell-bottoms and eight-track tapes -- ABBA is back. Well, sort of. 'Mamma Mia!,' a musical comedy now on tour, is the brainchild of ABBA band members Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus. Even better, the musical features more than 20 of the Swedish pop group's best-known songs from the 1970s. A book by Catherine Johnson provides the plot that strings together such familiar hits as 'Knowing Me, Knowing You,' 'Super Trouper' and 'Take a Chance on Me.' 'Mamma Mia!' opened in London in 1999 and promptly broke box-office records. This musical, set to a throbbing disco beat, has also played to sold-out houses in Australia and Toronto and is currently a Broadway hit. Set in the present day, on a small mythical Greek island, a soon-to-be-married daughter sets about finding her true dad by digging into her mother's diary and inviting three of her mother's previous lovers to her wedding. The cast employs ABBA's best songs to help tell the story, including favorites 'The Winner Takes It All,' 'Gimme, Gimme, Gimme,' 'Dancing Queen' and, of course, 'Mamma Mia.'