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What is your favorite song from mamma mia! The movie? (message board)

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In a video, west end mamma mia! 41 this particular production featured a majority asian-pacific islander (api) cast, along with several specific allusions to filipino culture (as this rendition of donna and sophie are a filipina family living abroad). As one of the most loved and qualified actors in the cast, dame julie walters was always going to do a sensational job as rosie, the original third dynamo. What a thrill to work with universal pictures and the same brilliant team of catherine and phyllida, augmented for some glorious weeks in 2007-2008 by movie stars of the calibre of meryl streep, pierce brosnan, colin firth, stellan skarsgård, christine baranski, julie walters, amanda seyfried and dominic cooper. Everything points to the mammamiaverse being a shadow reality where abba does not exist, their songs and legacy frittered away on a lonely greek island instead of changing the world. Of the group, fältskog is the least involved in mamma mia!, though not necesssarily bec...