Mamma Mia! (National Tour)

Mamma Mia! is one of my all-time favorite shows, so I had been excited to see this show. I had last seen a local production in 2022 at Village Theatre in Issaquah, Washington, and I expected this national tour would be at least as good as the fantastic production Village Theatre created a few years prior. I was wrong.

This production was just so disappointing across the board. The most significant problem was the sound engineering, which made me feel like I was at the fairgrounds listening to music over a cheap public address system. These issues were not consistent across all performers; a few actors did sound good, so I suspect it was a microphone issue or settings specific to certain microphones. Regardless, these issues should have been detected and corrected either via a stage hold or during intermission if they did not appear at sound check.

Performers work very hard. When they are on stage singing their hearts out, they deserve competent and quality sound engineering. Audiences pay high prices for Broadway shows and similarly deserve a quality production.

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