Björn Ulvaeus from ABBA explained: " We are absolutely enthusiastic about the success we have with Mamma Mia! in Germany. Although we always knew that we have a lot of fans here in Germany, we did not expect such euphoria for our music. With the new show in Stuttgart we would like to thank all our fans and those who are still waiting to get a ticket - Mamma Mia! at two locations in Germany is our biggest challenge."
Working with only a few stage settings Howard Harrison's lighting has an important function - and features more than 100 Rainbow colour changers, ETC Source Four fixtures and Vari-Lite moving heads. A grandMA lighting console controls the conventional lighting and a Vari-Lite Virtuoso DX2 the moving heads. The Virtuoso console is then triggered by the grandMA via a Midi Showcontrol.
More than 30 million people all over the world have seen the Mamma Mia! and for the performances in Hamburg more than 1 million tickets were sold over one and a half years. This makes the production extremely successful as for the first time in German musical history, one production is performed at two different places at the same time.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
