22.7.08
Last night I went with my sister to see Mamma Mia. If you are not a musical fan, I don't recommend this show. There is a lot of singing. And it is all Abba songs. Pretty awesome!
I loved it. It was a little on the cheesy side. Kinda strange to watch Meryl Streep be silly in her acting. She is usually so serious, at least to me. And Colin Firth will never be anybody but Mr. Darcy. (the world's most sexy literature figure EVER!) Pierce Brosnan sang his little heart out and he wasn't too bad. He said in an interview that his kids were busting up watching him during the premier. I can kinda see why. But all in all a good show.
It made me want to own an Abba CD. I think it is really cool that someone took a bunch of random songs and put them together to make a musical. They really seemed to fit. Like they were written just for that scene. Some were a tiny bit of a stretch, but not too much. I was impressed.
If you are an Abba fan or musical fan, this show is for you. It makes you want to walk out of the theater and dance. I think I will be buying the sound track. My plan is to turn my children into musical lovers one soundtrack at a time. They don't know what I am doing, but someday they will be able to sing along to each and every Broadway show out there. (Well, almost. Some are not too great for the kiddos.) And this will be a double whammy because they can sing along to Abba songs too. ;)
Thanks Kris, for a really fun night.
Is this the final blog design? I really love it. I love how easy it is to read everything. I LOVE the green title color and how it matches the trees in the blog title. I love how clean it is. I love the little white line in between posts (that's a big deal to me). The Widget title headers on the right look great too. If you change the design I'm sure you'll come up with something great but I really like this design. Oh! Another reason I really like this is because I think your pictures show up really nice with this background. It's a great color.
I wanna see that movie, but all of my girlfriends have recently moved, and there is no way I'm getting Dave in a theater with this playing. Maybe I could trick him into it?
Emily, your blog was my inspiration. I really like how yours is laid out. So I messed around with the HTML (A LOT) and several tries later, I got it how I like it. Hooray!
My sister lives close-ish to you, Emily, Next time we do a chick flick, we'll have to swing by and pick you up. Unless Dave is a huge ABBA fan, I can't see him loving this show. ;)