Mama Mia 300

TAKE some of the most irresistible melodies ever written, throw in a Greek beach and bathe in romance. What’s not to like?

One in four households apparently owning the DVD of the film version of Mamma Mia mean an awful lot of people like the Abba hit peppered story – albeit with its space distilled down into a mere 3,000 seats – was big enough to cater for fans of the smash hit stage production.

The vast, almost exclusively female audience brought along bags of lively atmosphere and was itching to sing along.

The plot centres on fatherless Sophie, conceived during a wild time in her mum’s twenties, who, unbeknown to her mum, Donna, invites the three possible candidates to her wedding in the hope her real father will give her away.

But it was the side plot, of three 40- something women, Donna and the two other former Dynamos, rediscovering their youth that really lit their fuse. Sex and the Greek Taverna, if you like.

The Dynamos reforming for Super Trouper replete in silver platforms and satin capes and the various seductions by Rosie (Leanne Rogers) and Tania (Kate Graham) to Does Your Mother Know and Take a Chance on Me, were scene-stealing highlights.