{"id":9060,"date":"2018-02-20T11:03:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T15:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=9060"},"modified":"2018-02-20T00:03:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T04:03:58","slug":"mamma-mia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2018\/02\/20\/mamma-mia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamma Mia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mamma Mia 2: Here We Go Again will be coming to theaters this summer. \u00a0The new movie is set to have the entire cast from the first movie return. \u00a0Mamma Mia 2 is set to be a prequal that follows a young Donna (Meryl Streep) as she is pregnant with her daughter Sophie (Amanda Seyfried). \u00a0This movie looks like it will bring back some of the classic songs from the first movie and hopefully a few different Abba songs to go with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mamma Mia is such a unique musical when you think about the structure. \u00a0The songs blend seemlessly together with the plot. \u00a0It makes one think how was this movie made? \u00a0Was the plot created around the song? \u00a0Were all of the songs from the same album? \u00a0Did the writers just choose Abba\u2019s greatest hits to add in the movie or did they choose any Abba song that fit in with the plot that was created?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mamma Mia was created from Abba\u2019s greatest hits. \u00a0This means that the plot was written around the songs, because the songs used were already very popular. \u00a0The songs that were used in the musical were not from a specific album, instead they were taken from all of Abba\u2019s old albums. \u00a0The majority of the songs in the musical were Abba\u2019s greatest hits. \u00a0This could have helped the musical to gain popularity because a majority of the audience already knew the words to the songs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mamma Mia was originally a musical that came out in 1999. \u00a0The writer of Mamma Mia, Catherine Johnson, thought of the idea of a musical from the song \u201cThe Winner Takes It All\u201d in 1983. \u00a0The musical wasn\u2019t expected to be a success, but it is still running today all over the world. \u00a0Mamma Mia has helped Abba stay popular well past when they finished creating music. \u00a0Even now, children as young as ten know the words to Mamma Mia and many other songs by Abba.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mamma Mia 2: Here We Go Again will be coming to theaters this summer. \u00a0The new movie is set to have the entire cast from the first movie return. \u00a0Mamma Mia 2 is set to be a prequal that follows a young Donna (Meryl Streep) as she is pregnant with her daughter Sophie (Amanda Seyfried). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9063,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9060\/revisions\/9063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}