Chicago Tribune - Recommended

"...Mamma Mia remains one of the great jukebox entertainments of all time. The tour seems to get physically smaller (the bridgeway at the conclusion, which I’ve always liked, is now gone altogether). But it remains a full and wholly enjoyable Equity show populated by very decent comic and musical performers. And they’ve got the volume cranked up party-high in Rosemont. And why not? Worked for me in the 1970s."
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Copley News Service - Recommended

"...Mamma Mia! is still one of the great joys in the modern musical theater. It’s been fashionable to take pot shots at the show for its disco ambience, just as some people loved to ridicule “Cats” when it was drawing sell-out crowds by the year. Well, we live in a free country with freedom of speech, so people can mock “Mamma Mia!” at their pleasure, but they are blocking themselves off from 21/2 hours of real pleasure."

Steadstyle Chicago - Recommended

"...Catherine Johnson's paint-by-numbers script is still just a convenient way to hang the existing ABBA dance band catalogue. The show, which was significantly improved by Johnson and Director Phyllida Lloyd in the Meryl Streep film version, is still an entertaining enough confection on stage even when the scaled down tour seems to be cutting corners on musicians and production values. The disco flavored score is blasted through speakers at the sides of the stage, which are just hoary and synthetic to make us question if it's live or Memorex. For the record, there is a keyboard heavy 9-member band in the Rosemont pit, a little skimpy though for a first-class Equity tour. And the scenery is now moved by very visible stand hands rather than via turntable and winches."
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