Sequel of ABBA's hit musical Mamma Mia on the cards

The ABBA musical Mamma Mia is set to get a sequel in July 2018 and many of the original cast members like Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Amanda Seyfried are expected to return. The sequel would be titled - Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again.
The first musical was set in Greece and was about the attempts of a bride-to-be to find her real father. It featured 20 Abba songs including Dancing Queen, The Name Of The Game and Super Trouper.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 20 May 2017.

Incidentally, Mamma Mia is the 9th most successful film of all time at UK cinemas, and ABBA's founding members and songwriters Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Anderson were deeply involved in both the film and musical productions of Mamma Mia and are expected to play a role in creating the sequel.
ABBA came inti limelight when they won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Waterloo. Subsequently, the Swedish quartet became one of the most successful groups of the late 70s and early 80s and had 9 UK number one singles. The number of albums they have sold in in the region of 200 million.


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Meryl Streep recently received her 30th Golden Globes nomination for ‘Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture.’ The 67-year-old has, thus, created history with the most number of nods. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has nominated the 'Florence Foster Jenkins’ star for the wards - she has, therefore, become the most-nominated performer in Golden Globes history in 2009.
It is thanks to her double lead actress nominations for ‘Doubt’ and ‘Mamma Mia!’ - these gave her 23 nominations and seven more since then.
This has been reported in indianexpress.com dated 13 December 2016.

Meryl Streep, The Mamma Mia star, also holds the records for most Golden Globe wins for her roles in Kramer vs. Karmer (1979), The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981), Sophie’s Choice (1982), Adaptation (2002), Angels in America (2003), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Julie & Julia (2009) and The Iron Lady (2010).
In addition, she will receive the ‘Cecil B. Demille Award’ at the ‘74th Golden Globe Award’ this year. Other contenders in the award category include Annette Bening for her role in ‘20th Century Women’, Lily Collins (Rules Don’t Apply), Hailee Steinfeld (The Edge of Seventeen) and Emma Stone (La La Land).
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This has been reported in indiasnexpress.com dated 30 June 2016.

Meryl Streep was the first person in her family to attend university. She encouraged the teens to never give up on their goals in spite of the inevitable challenges they may face on the way. And she had no qualms about flying halfway around the world to help the First Lady with the campaign.
AS she put it - "if Mrs. Obama asked me to road trip anywhere in the world I would say, ‘I’m there in five minutes’.”
Alongside them was Frieda Pinto, the Slumdog Millionaire actress. She encouraged the females to not be afraid to speak their minds. Streep and Pinto, along with Obama and her two teenage daughters, Sasha and Malia, also went to the King’s Palace to join Princess Lalla Salma for a traditional Moroccan iftar - this is a dinner to break the fast of Ramadan.


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