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The wedding scene was shot at the agios loannis chapel.most of the outdoor scenes were filmed on location at the small greek island of skopelos. It was written by Catherine johnson and it was based on the songs of ABBA. it was directed by phyllida lloyd and distributed by universal pictures in partnership with tom hanks,rita playton and littlestar. It earned 6.8 million on a 52 million budget. Meryl streep’s was 59 years old when they made the movie she’s won 2 two oscars and countless other awards. The movie is a musical and the songs are from ABBA it come out on broadway october,18,2001 at the winter garden theatre after premiering in london at the prince edward theatre.it was on March 23, 1999 that the musical mama mia met its first and most crucial test when it was put in front of its first-ever paying audience in London and was given the kind of welcome it has been getting ever since, every night, at every one of the many productions that have since followed. But that early spring evening in London it was still a completely unknown quantity. We really had no idea how it was going to be received reflects the producer Judy Craymer whose initial concept, exactly a decade earlier it had been to use existing ABBA songs within the format of a new, original musical. But happily, she remembers, The audience went wild. They were literally out of their seats and singing and dancing in the aisles and …show more content…

It has become a global entertainment phenomenon, which has now been seen by over 60 million people worldwide, in over 440 major cities. It has set the record for premiering in more cities worldwide faster than any other musical in history, from Toronto to Broadway, and from Australia to its first foreign language production in Germany (where it would eventually become the first major musical to play concurrently in three Germany cities) to going home to ABBA ’s original Stockholm home in a Swedish-language production in

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