MAMMA MIA(The musical 1st. and 2nd. B)

First Call: Waterloo is playing.

Second Call: Waterloo is still playing.

Third Call:

BRIAN: Mamma Mia! Hello Isadora! How are you?

ISADORA: Hello Brian! I'm fine. Good night dear audience!

BRIAN: The day has finally come. What do you think about Mamma Mia's Opening?

ISADORA: I think it's wonderful and quite expected. Many people from around the world have been waiting for it for so long.

BRIAN: You must know Mamma Mía's play was inspired on Abba's songs and ...

ISADORA: ... and wait. Let us listen to Michelle and Valerie, our best reporters.

BRIAN: That's right. Michelle and Valerie are interviewing some celebrities and fans who have been looking forward for Mamma Mia's big opening.

ISADORA: Michelle, Valerie, go ahead with your interviews, please.

MICHELE AND VALERIE: Hello Isadora! Hello Brian!

VALERIE: I have a great surprise for you Abba fans. Tonight we are interviewing ------------- Abba's singer. Hello ________________. How do you feel tonight?

_______: Well, first of all, quite honored and touched for listening to those songs of my heart on the voice of such great singers. You know how I especially love Mamma Mia, so I really really want to be here tonight.

VALERIE: The honor is ours. Thank you very much for this interview.

________: Thank you. Goodbye.

MICHELLE: Brian, Isadora, I have quite an unexpected character with us tonight.

BRIAN: Who is it?

ISADORA: Come on, tell us.

MICHELLE: He’s a hooligan. He says he loves Abba and musicals.

ISADORA: Go on with that interview.

MICHELLE: So you were telling us you are Abba’s fan and that you love musicals.

HOOLIGAN: Certainly, ma’am. Musicals rock, Abba rocks and I …

MICHELLE: Rock?

HOOLIGAN: Don’t try to kid me Little girl. (looking up at her.)

MICHELLE: Little girl?

HOOLIGAN: That’s right.

MICHELLE: Let’s cool off and tell us ….what’s your favorite song?

HOOLIGAN: Dancing Queen of course. (He starts dancing and singing.) You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life, oooh … (Michelle interrupts.)

MICHELLE: Great fan!

BRIAN: But terrible Singer!

HOOLIGAN: You and me man, right now, right here.

BRIAN: Not now, maybe later.

(He waves goodbye. And does a “call me.” Hooligan touches his moustache.)

MICHELLE: Thank you very much for this interview. Valerie, please. (She pushes him out.)

VALERIE: Hi! Can I ask you some questions?

BRENDA: Of course.

VALERIE: Why did you come to see Mama Mia, the musical.

BRENDA: Well, I just love everything about it. The songs, the show, the actors.

VALERIE: Are you any of tonight’s actors’ fan?

BRENDA: No one particularly, I love everybody’s work.

VALERIE: Do you like Abba?

BRENDA: Yes, I do, I do, I do; I do … Their songs are just extraordinary!

- 2 -VALERIE: Do you know all their lyrics?

BRENDA: Of course, who doesn’t. Chiquitita tell me what’s wrong?

VALERIE: Which are your favorite songs?

BRENDA: Waterloo and The winner takes it all.

VALERIE: Great songs! Thank you verty much for this interview.

MICHELLE: See you later.

ISADORA: I guess the time has come.

BRIAN: For you, ladies and gentlemen.

ISADORA AND BRIAN: Mamma Miaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Mama Mia is playing.

At the back the patio of Donna’s Hotel, two doors, tables scattered around, dark…I Have a Dream is being played.

SOPHIE: (Mailing three letters in a mail box on the wall, reads out loud.)

Sam Carmichael, Bill Anderson, Harry Bright

(Lisa, Ali and Rachel calling for Sophie from the back of the door.)

ALI: Sophie we’re here!

SOPHIE: (running for the door, opens it and screams joyfully)

Ahhh! I can’t believe you guys are here.

RACHEL: We wouldn’t miss it for the world.

ALI: I can’t believe one of us is getting married!

RACHEL: Come on! Let us see it.

(Sophie shows her engagement ring Ali and Lisa look at it in awe)

- 3 -LISA: It’s so beautiful!

ALI: I want one of those.

LISA: He did well!

RACHEL: So, tell us about that secret of yours.

ALI: Sophie, are you knocked up? (Touching Sophie’s tummy)

SOPHIE: No, no, no, do you remember how long I’ve wondered who my father is?

LISA: Yes.

SOPHIE: Well I invited my dad to my wedding.

RACHEL: You’re joking!

ALI: Have you finally found him?

SOPHIE: Well, not exactly.

LISA: English, please.

SOPHIE: Mom always says it was a summer romance and that he was left long before she learnt she was pregnant.

LISA: So.

SOPHIE: Well I was looking into my mom’s old trunk and look what I found (showing Donnas’ diary)

RACHEL: An old playboy?

SOPHIE: No it’s the diary she kept the year she was pregnant with me.

ALI: Sophie!

SOPHIE: (Reading….) July 17th, 1969…. What a night!

LISA: I’m not sure I want to hear this.

ALI: I do.

SOPHIE: (She continues reading…) Sam rowed me over to the little island, that’s here. Kalokairi. We danced on the beach, we kissed on the beach, and dot, dot, dot …

LISA: What?

- 4 -ALI: Dot, dot, dot! That’s what they did in the olden days.

SOPHIE: Sam is the one I know he is I’ve never felt like this before …

(the girls start singing)

Honey, Honey

Honey honey, how he thrills me, a-ha, honey honeyHoney honey, nearly kills me, a-ha, honey honeyI've heard about him beforeI wanted to know some moreAnd now I know what they mean, he's a love machineOh, he makes me dizzy.

Honey honey, let me feel it, a-ha, honey honeyHoney honey, don't conceal it, a-ha, honey honeyThe way that you kiss good night

ALI / LISA / RACHELThe Way that you kiss me goodnight

SOPHIEThe way that you hold me tight

ALI / LISA / RACHELThe Way that you're holding me tight

SOPHIEI feel like I wanna singWhen you do your thing

ALI: So that’s it The Sam guy is your dad.

SOPHIE: Not for sure.

RACHEL: What do you mean?

SOPHIE: Apparently, Sam was engaged by the time he met my mom and he left to get married.

LISA: Oh no poor Donna.

SOPHIE: Wait! There’s more… (She continues reading…) August 5th, what a night! Bill rented a motorboat and we went to the island, one thing led to another and …

ALI, LISA AND RACHEL: And, dot, dot, dot???

(Music continues playing.)- 5 -

SOPHIEHoney, honeyTouch me, baby,Aha, honey, honey

Honey, honeyHold me, baby,Aha, honey, honey.

You look like a movie star

ALI / LISA / RACHELLook like a movie star

SOPHIEBut I love just who you are

ALI / LISA / RACHELI like just who you areSOPHIEAnd honey to say the leastYou’re a doggone beast

SOPHIE: Wait there’s more.

GIRLS: There’s more? (They laugh, play and try to read from the diary. Sophie runs and reads.)

SOPHIE: August 11th, Harry turned up spontaneously, so I showed him the island and …

GIRLS: Dot, dot, dot… (They laugh.)

SOPHIE:Honey, honeyHow you thrill me,Aha, honey honey

Honey, honeyNearly kill me,Aha, honey, honey

I’ve heard about you beforeI wanted to know some moreAnd now I’m about to see What you mean to me…

(Music finishes. They leave playing. Tanya, Ann and Rosie knock on the door exhausted. Sophie comes back running as she hears the knocking.)

- 6 -TANYA: Oh my god! Why am I wearing these shoes?

ROSIE: Come on, it wasn’t that bad…………… Sophie, Sophie is that you girl.

SOPHIE: Yes auntie Rosie, Auntie Tanya, Auntie Ana, ahhhhhhhhh!

ANN: Oh, you’re so big and gorgeous.

ROSIE: You look just like your mother when we sang together.

TANYA: By the way, where is she?

(Donna appears at the back wearing an overall and an utility belt)

DONNA: Ahhh, you’re here, I was afraid you couldn’t make it. Look at all of you, and look at these (pointing at Tanya’s breasts.)

TANYA: Husband number three

DONNA: I’m so happy to see you. Well, I guess you have seen the bride.

SOPHIE: Mom!

DONNA: Wha? I promised you I wouldn’t say a thing about this wedding being a huge mistake.

SOPHIE: Mom, stop.

DONNA: Ok I will, but in my times girls didn’t marry at 20

ANN: Donna in our times girls didn’t marry at all.

ROSIE: Come on Donna cheer up.

TANYA: Tell us who the lucky guy is.

ANN: Introduce us, we didn’t cross half the world just to talk.

DONNA: Oh yes you’re gonna love Sky. Sky, Sky, where are you? Please, come.

(Sky comes in running)

SKY: Hi, sorry Donna. I was repairing the roof of the old goat house.

DONNA: That’s fine I just wanted you to meet my friends.

(Rosie, Tanya and Ann admire Sky)

ROSIE: Wow girl you certainly have good taste.

- 7 -SKY: You must be Rosie, Ann and Tanya

TANYA: And you must be a dream

DONNA: Girls behave. You must be very tired let me show you your rooms, Chilli!!! Eddie!!! Where are these boys? Chilli!! (Shouting on Chilli’s ear)

EDDIE: Yes Donna.

DONNA: These are my Friends Rosie, Ann and Tanya please ..

CHILLI: Don’t worry. I’ll take them to their rooms.

DONNA: Make sure they’re the best rooms in the hotel.

(Chilli and Eddie look at each other wondering)

CHILLI AND EDDIE: The one that still has bed? (Donnna nods)

CHILLI: This way, follow me.

EDDIE: (taking Tanya’s bags) Please let me carry those for you. In Greece a woman as beautiful as you is not allowed to carry anything.

TANYA: Oh well thank you.

EDDIE: Is this all?

TANYA: No, there’s another little one over there. (Points at a huge heavy bag)

EDDIE: (Barely supporting it) Madam, what´s inside???

ANN: Only her make up.

(Chilli, Eddie, Sky and Sophie go, Tanya, Rosie, Ann and Donna sit on the table)

ROSIE: So Donna, how’s the hotel going?

DONNA: Well the only thing that is not getting repaired here is me.

TANYA: Donna do you need money?

DONNA: Who doesn’t, but isn’t that bad.

TANYA: (Kindly.) Donna.

- 8 -Money, Money, Money

I work all night, I work all day, to pay the bills I have to payAin't it sadAnd still there never seems to be a single penny left for me

That's too badIn my dreams I have a planIf I got me a wealthy manI wouldn't have to work at all, I'd fool around and have a ball...Money, money, moneyMust be funnyIn the rich man's worldMoney, money, moneyAlways sunnyIn the rich man's worldAha-ahaaaAll the things I could doIf I had a little moneyIt's a rich man's world X 2 (1’20”)

DONNA: Come on girls. Let’s go to your room.

(Everyone leaves, Sam, Bill and Harry enter through a door carrying bags)

BILL: This is just like I remember. God, it’s good to be back!

HARRY: Are you very good friend of Donna?

BILL: Not exactly. I met her 21 years ago, and now I got this invitation to a wedding and here I am.

SAM: Hey, it was the same with me. Wow, you know I drew this whole place in a napkin twenty-one years ago. I can’t believe Donna built it.

BILL: And what about you man?

HARRY: Well I received an invitation too and I decided to come, spontaneously.

SAM: Spontaneously?

HARRY: That’s the kind of man I am.

BILL: Really? Don’t you work in bank?

HARRY: Well yes, yes. I don’t usually do this kind of things, but suddenly, I have the strange desire of coming.

- 9 -(Sophie appears from the back.)

SOPHIE: Can I help you?

SAM: Yes. I’m Sam.

SOPHIE: Sam Carmichael? Then you must be Bill? Bill Anderson? And you must be

Harry!

Harry: Are you Donna’s daughter?

(Sophie smiles.)

BILL: I couldn’t imagine Donna having a child.

SAM: Can we see Donna now?

HARRY: And a room with a big bathroom?

(He takes a urinal.)

SOPHIE: No, not yet. As a matter of fact I have a confession to make. My mom didn’t invite you…….. I did. (She smiles.)

SAM: What??

HARRY: So Donna doesn’t even know!!

SOPHIE: It’s a surprise. She is always talking about you guys and the good old days that I thought … well, it would be great to bring you here as my wedding present.

SAM: No you don’t understand, your mother and I didn’t finish in good terms, so I’m out of here.

SOPHIE: Come on, that was years ago.

HARRY: Well, I can’t be here either. I think we should go back to the main island.

BILL: I don’t think so, Harry, it’s an adventure and it will be good for you.

SAM: I’m out of here Sophie nice to meet you, good luck on the wedding and goodbye. (He takes his bags and starts going.)

SOPHIE: But you cannot leave until I know…

SAM: Until you know what?

(Everybody freezes, except for Sophie who tells the audience.)

SOPHIE: How can I tell them I need to find out who of them three is my father?

- 10 -(They unfreeze.)

SOPHIE: Until I know… when the ship is coming…

HARRY: There it is. I can’t believe it. (goes over to an old guitar the other side.)

SAM: The boat?

HARRY: Not at all. This guitar. (Our last summer is being played softly.) I bought, well exchanged it 21 years ago in France where I met your mother see D.S Donna Sheridan and H.B., Head banger.

SAM AND BILL: Head banger??

Harry: After we met she came to Greece and I followed her quite spontaneously.

SOPHIE: Please stay, it’s like a siren call.

SAM: You’re like a little Donna, aren’t you?

SOPHIE: So, are you guys staying. (She smiles.)

SAM, HARRY, BILL: Yes, we do. DONNA: (from behind the door) Sophie, Sophie!

SOPHIE: It’s Mom! Please hide and don’t tell her I invited you…. Promise?

SAM, HARRY, BILL: We do.

(Sophie leaves as Donna enters. Sam, Bill and Harry try to hide but it is too late.)

DONNA: Harry?? Is that you Harry??

BILL: Hey Donna you don’t remember me do you?

DONNA: Bill, Bill Anderson.

SAM: Hey Donna. DONNA: Sam?????

(MAMMA MIA PLAYING DONNA SINGS ALONG WITH THE REST OF THE CAST. THEY FREEZE.)

- 11 -MAMA MIA

DONNAI was cheated by you And I think you know when.So I made up my mind, it must come to an endLook at me now, will I ever learn?I don't know how but I suddenly lose controlThere's a fire within my soulJust one look and I can hear a bell ring

One more look and I forget everything

Mamma mia, here I go againMy my, how can I resist you?Mamma mia, does it show againMy My, just how much I've missed you?Yes, I've been broken-heartedBlue since the day we partedWhy, why did I ever let you go?Mamma mia, now I really knowMy my, I should not have let you go. (1’20”)

DONNA: What, what, what are doing here??

BILL: I came to write a traveling piece.

HARRY: I came on a spontaneous vacation

DONNA: (to Sam) And you?

SAM: I just dropped in to say hi.

DONNA: I’m really sorry but we are closed , uhmm for my … mm… local girl is getting married and we don’t have any more rooms. Anchors away, please.

(All show the keys given by Sophie)

DONNA: Well then you are here to stay, well ………..we’ll see…

(Dark. TANYA, ANN AND ROSSIE’S ROOM. Donna comes in running about to cry.)

DONNA: Have you seen her? Is she here?

Tanya: Who? - 12 –

DONNA: (Desperate) Sophie!! That’s who!! (She starts crying.)

ROSIE: What’s wrong? (Donna continuous crying)

ANN: Chiquitita… tell me what’s wrong…

TANYA: I have never seen such sorrow .

(Chiquitita playing ????????)

ROSIE, ANN & TANYA: In your eyes, and the wedding is tomorrow

TANYA: How I hate to see you like this

ROSIE: There is no way you can deny it

ANN: I can see That you’re oh so sad, so quiet

ROSIE, ANN & TANYA: Chiquitita, tell me the truth I’m a shoulder you can cry on Your best friend I’m the one you must rely on DONNA: it’s her dad?

TANYA: Who’s dad?

DONNA: Sophie’s dad! , remember I always told you it was Sam, the architect.

ANN: The one who left you to marry another girl?

TANYA: The abandoner!

DONNA: Well, I’m not really sure he is her dad.

ROSIE: How come?

DONNA: Well, there were two other guys around at the time.

TANYA: You shady lady!

ROSIE: Why didn’t you tell us?

ANN: I see. You’ve never expected to tell anyone about this.

DONNA: Nor to see Sophie’s three dads the day before her wedding!! And now everything is falling apart!! HOW AM I GONNA TELL SOPHIE??!!??

ROSIE: Donna calm down!- 13 -

TANYA: Maybe she’ll be O.K. with it!

DONNA: You don’t know my daughter!! She’ll be devastated! And this is all my fault because I was a stupid reckless s…..!!!

ANN: (Interrupts laughing) Shhhhhhhh! You sound like your mother.

DONNA: I do not

ANN: Yes you do.

ROSIE: What happened to our Donna?

TANYA: The soul of the party.

ROSIE: El rock chic supremo

DONNA: I grew up

ROSIE, TANYA, ANN: Then grow back down.

Dancing Queen

You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your lifeSee that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen

Friday night and the lights are lowLooking out for the place to goWhere they play the right music, getting in the swingYou come in to look for a kingAnybody could be that guyNight is young and the music’s highWith a bit of rock music, everything is fineYou’re in the mood for a danceAnd when you get the chance...

You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeenDancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourineYou can dance, you can jive, having the time of your lifeSee that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen

You’re a teaser, you turn ‘em onLeave them burning and then you’re goneLooking out for another, anyone will doYou’re in the mood for a danceAnd when you get the chance...

- 14 -You are the dancing queen, young and sweet, only seventeenDancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine, oh yeah!You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your lifeSee that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queenDig in the dancing queen

You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your lifeSee that girl, watch that scene, dig in the dancing queen. (4’02”)

(Dark. They leave silently. At the beach, with rocks and the sea. Sky is trying to get on a boat. Sophie calls him out loud.)

SOPHIE: Sky, Sky. (She appears running.)

SKY: I’m here.

SOPHIE: Where are you going?

SKY: I’m getting ready for my bachelor party tonight. MY LAST NIGHT OF FREEDOM!!

SOPHIE: Of freedom?

SKY: Some guys will say, but as I see it it’s the beginning of my greatest adventure!

SOPHIE: Sky, do you remember how much I’ve always wanted to meet my father? Well…

SKY: Sophie we have gone trough this before, you already have a family.

SOPHIE: And you will never leave me? Will you?

SKY: Are you kidding me? You have turned my whole world upside.

(They start singing.)

- 15 -Lay All Your Love on Me

Don't go wasting your emotionLay all your love on me

I wasn't jealous before we metNow every man I see is a potential threatAnd I'm possessive, it isn't niceYou've heard me saying that smoking was my only viceBut now it isn't trueNow everything is newAnd all I've learned has overturnedI beg of you......

Don't go wasting your emotionLay all your love on me

It was like shooting a sitting duckA little small talk, a smile and baby I was stuckI still don't know what you've done with meA grown-up woman should never fall so easilyI feel a kind of fearWhen I don't have you nearUnsatisfied, I skip my prideI beg you dear......

CHORUS:

Don't go wasting your emotionLay all your love on meDon't go sharing your devotionLay all your love on me

I've had a few little love affairsThey didn't last very long and they've been pretty scarceI used to think that was sensibleIt makes the truth even more incomprehensible'cause everything is newAnd everything is youAnd all I've learned has overturnedWhat can I do......CHORUS …

(Dark. The patio again with a stage.)

ROSIE: For one night! And one night only! The first girl power band:

DONNA AND THE DYNNAMOS!!!!!!!- 16 -

(They start singing. Bill, Harry and Sam enter.)

Super Trouper

Super TrouperBeams are gonna blind meBut I won't feel blueLike I always do'Cause somewhere in the crowdThere's you

DONNAI was sick and tired of everythingWhen I called you last night from GlasgowAll I do is eat, and sleep, and sing

Wishing every show was the last showSo imagine I was glad to hear you're comingSuddenly it feels alrightAnd it's gonna be so differentWhen I'm on the stage tonight

Tonight the Super TrouperLights are gonna find me Shining like the sunSmiling, having funFeeling like a number oneTonight the Super TrouperBeams are gonna blind meBut I won't feel blueLike I always do'Cause somewhere in the crowd there's you …. (1’40”)

ROSIE: (Looking at Sam Bill and Harry) Sorry! This is a woman’s party! NO MAN ALLOWED!!

(Donna and her friends leave stage. Girls are sitting down and pretend they are talking. Sam approaches Sophie and start talking, while Sophie’s friends are looking at a box with LP’s to play.)

SAM: Your mom doesn’t look happy to see me.

SOPHIE: Well, you’re so unexpected.

SAM: No. It’s our history together.

SOPHIE: Sorry to drag you away. SAM: Thank God you did. This used to be a quiet island.

- 17 -SOPHIE: Regretting you stayed away so long?

SAM: No, I'm regretting I never knew what was here.

SOPHIE: What?

SAM: This place - the Taverna. I always meant to come back and build it some day, but she has already.

SOPHIE: Tell me something about mom.

SAM: Your mother was beautiful, irresistible. You look so much like her. We talked and we fought – you know it was me that brought her to this island?

SOPHIE: That wasn't the only thing you did, was it?

(Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! Starts playing.)

SAM: Oh right, what has she told you?

SOPHIE: Nothing. She's never mentioned you.

SAM: But you said your mom was always talking about us…….. Sophie ……… why am I here?

(Ali and Lisa take Sophie and Sam.)

ALI: Sophie, let’s dance.

LISA: You too Sam.

(Rachel takes Harry and another girl takes Bill. Everybody starts singing.)

GIRLS (sing):

Half past twelve

SOPHIE:And I’m watching the lateShow in my flat all aloneHow I hate to spend the evening on my own

GIRLS:Autumn winds

SOPHIE:blowing outside my window as I look around the roomAnd it makes me so depressed to see the gloom.

- 18 –GIRLS:Is there a man out there?Someone to hear my prayerGimme! Gimme! Gimme!A man after midnightWon’t somebody help me chase the shadows away?Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! A man after midnightTake me through the darkness to the break of the day

(Volume down. Sophie talks to Harry)

SOPHIE: So tell me Harry, do you have any kids?

HARRY: No, I only have 2 dogs, Lucy and Skipper. That’s the extend of my relationships.

SOPHIE: Have you ever wanted to have children?

HARRY: Oh yes! I would’ve loved to have a daughter. I’d have spoiled her rotten. …. Is your father here?

SOPHIE: I don’t know. …………… (Pause) …..I don’t know who my father is…

(Volume high again. Girls take Harry and Sophie.)

GIRLS:Movie stars

SOPHIE:Find the end of the rainbow with a fortune to winIt’s so different from the world I’m living in

GIRLS:Tired of TV

SOPHIE:I open the window and I gaze into the night But there’s nothing there to see, no one in sight.

GIRLSIs there a man out there?Someone to hear my prayer:

//Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!A man after midnightWon't somebody help me chase the shadows away?Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! A man after midnightTake me through the darkness to the break of the day//

- 19 -(Volume down. Sophie and Bill start talking and dancing.)

BILL: Can I be nosey, I'm a writer so it goes with the territory.

SOPHIE: Go on.

BILL: How did your mother get this place?

SOPHIE: Sophia left her some money in a will. An old lady, we lived with when I was little.

BILL: My Great-Aunt Sophia? But, I always heard her money went to family. (He suspects something.) How old are you?

SOPHIE: I’m twenty.

BILL: (He thinks he’s her father.) Ahm? Can you excuse me a minute.

(He goes to one side of the set and Sophie follows him dark at the back)

SOPHIE: Bill wait, why did your aunt left money to my mother?

BILL: I don’t know.

SOPHIE: All my life I have this big unanswered question. Bill, are you my father?

BILL: Yes… no…yes……… I think so.

SOPHIE: Do you know what comes next?

BILL: You’re not gonna tell me you have a twin sister, are you?

SOPHIE: Will you give me at the altar.

BILL: Yes… yes, I will.

SOPHIE: But don’t tell mom. It will be our secret until tomorrow.

(Voulez-vous playing)

ALI: The boys are coming!!

LISA: Where?

RACHEL: Over there!

ALI: Everywhere?

- 20 -Voulez-Vous

GIRLS:People everywhereA sense on expectation hanging in the airGiving out a sparkAcross the room your eyes are glowing in the dark

BOYS:And here we go again, we know the start, we know the endMasters of the sceneWe've done it all before and now we're back to get some moreYou know what I mean.

EVERYONE:

Voulez-vous (ah-ha)Take it now or leave it (ah-ha)Now it's all we get (ah-ha)Nothing promised, no regretsVoulez-vous (ah-ha)Ain't no big decision (ah-ha)You know what to do (ah-ha)La question c'est voulez-vousVoulez-vous.........

SAM: Sophie, I finally know why I’m here. How long have you known I’m your father?

SOPHIE: Not long ago. But you can´t tell anyone. Not even mom.

SAM: Who’s giving you tomorrow at the altar?

SOPHIE: Nobody.

SAM: Wrong. I am.

(Loud music everyone dancing and singing)

BOYS:I know what you think"The girl means business so I'll offer her a drink"

GIRLS:Looking mighty proudI see you leave your table, pushing through the crowdI'm really glad you came, you know the rules, you know the game

BOYS:Master of the scene.

- 21 -EVERYONE:We've done it all before and now we're back to get some moreYou know what I meanVoulez-vous (ah-ha)Take it now or leave it (ah-ha)Now it's all we get (ah-ha)Nothing promised, no regretsVoulez-vous (ah-ha)Ain't no big decision (ah-ha)You know what to do (ah-ha)La question c'est voulez-vousAnd here we go again, we know the start, we know the endMasters of the sceneWe've done it all before and now we're back to get some moreYou know what I meanVoulez-vous (ah-ha)

Take it now or leave it (ah-ha)Now it's all we get (ah-ha)Nothing promised, no regretsVoulez-vous (ah-ha)Ain't no big decision (ah-ha)You know what to do (ah-ha)La question c'est voulez-vousVoulez-vous.........

(Music goes down.)

HARRY: Oh my god!

SOPHIE: Harry!! No!!

HARRY: I’m your father!! That’s why you send me the invite!! You wanted your old man to give you away!! Well, I’m not gonna let you down!!... I’ll be there tomorrow!!

(Loud music, dance, dark patio. Sophie is confused.)

//Voulez-vous (ah-ha x3)//

Voluz-vous (ah-ha)Take it now or leave it (ah-ha)Now it's all we get (ah-ha)Nothing promised, no regretsVoulez-vous (ah-ha)Ain't no big decision (ah-ha)You know what to do (ah-ha)La question c’est voulez-vousVoulez-vouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus..uh! Voulez-vous.

- 22 -(Sophie collapses. Donna shouts Sophie. Sky shouts Babie. Dark. Next day at Donna’s patio.)

DONNA: I can’t believe this is happening to me!

ROSIE: Relax! Everything is under control!

DONNA: How??

ROSIE: I’m going to have lunch with… Bill and the girls…

(Tanya and Ann enter.)

ANN: What are you talking about?

ROSIE: About Harry!

TANYA: Oh! That’s right. We’ve convinced Harry into water sports.

ANN: We’ll talk to them and see what they’re up to!

(Tanya, Ann and Rosie leave. Donna stays. Sophie enters like in a hurry and Donna wonders why.)

DONNA: Hey darling! What’s the matter?

SOPHIE: Nothing, it’s just that… nothing.

DONNA: Hey hey, come here, what’s wrong?

SOPHIE: It’s just that… I really don’t know what to do.

DONNA: (hugging her) Come on! Don’t worry. You don’t have to marry if you don’t want to. We’ll call off the wedding and everybody will understand.

SOPHIE: CALL OF THE WEDDING??? That’s not what I want to do!!!...

DONNA: No???

SOPHIE: No! That’s what you want me to do!! (She’s very upset.)

DONNA: No! Sophie wait!! I…

SOPHIE: YES!! You never had a wedding!! You only got to do the baby part!!

DONNA: I don’t know why you are taking this on me…

SOPHIE: God!! I love Sky I want to married him!! I don’t want my kids to grow up not knowing who their father is because it just sucks!!

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(Sophie leaves stage. Donna stays. Sky, Chilli, Eddie enter singing voulez-vous)

DONNA: Where have you been?? You supposed to be helping with all this!! Sophie is gonna have a beautiful wedding!! Is that clear??

(They leave running. Donna continuous grabbing the garbage. Sam enters.)

SAM: I see that you kept my bagpipes

DONNA: I use it to scare away the rats.

SAM: So, you did it. This used to be our dream.

DONNA: Well, this is my reality.

SAM: Let me help you

DONNA: No thanks! I can deal with my own mistakes.

SAM: Why didn’t you tell us it was Sophie the one getting married?

DONNA: Why should I? After all, I raised her on my own; plus I don’t need anyone to look after me.

(Donna leaves. Sam waits hoping for her to regreat. Then he leaves, but before he is not seen on stage she comes back and tries to follow him but he’s gone. She leaves. Some items

representing the beach are added. Harry, Tanya and Ann start speaking on beach clothes.)

HARRY: So what does the father usually do on the wedding?

TANYA: He pays for it. Though my father stopped after my third wedding.

HARRY: He pays for it!!

ANN: That’s right mister. Why are you so interested?

HARRY: I forgot I have something to do. See you later.

ANN: But Harry! Wait!

(Ann leaves after Harry. Tanya stays and Chilli joins her.)

CHILLI: Hey Tanya! Why don’t we finish what we started last night?

TANYA: Last night didn’t happen. I’ve completely forgotten about last night.

LISA: Don’t pay attention to him Tanya.

- 24 -ALI: Yeah. He’s no head and all trousers.

CHILLI: Shut up. Tanya can’t deny the attraction between us.

TANYA: Little boys who play with fire get their fingers burn.

Does Your Mother Know

TANYA:You're so hotTeasing meSo you're blue

EVERYONE:but I can'tTake a chance on a kid like you

TANYAIt's something I couldn't do

There's that lookIn your eyes

EVERYONE:I can read in your faceThat your feelings are driving you wild

TANYA:Oh, but boy you're only a child

EVERYONE:Well, I could dance with you honeyIf you think it's funnyBut does your mother know that you're out?And I could chat with you babyFlirt a little maybeDoes your mother know that you're out?

PEPPER:Take it easy:

TANYA + GIRLSTake it easyBetter slow down boyThat's no way to goDoes your mother know? - 25 -

PEPPER:Take it easy

TANYA + GIRLS:Take it easyTry to cool it boyPlay it nice and slowDoes your mother know?

TANYAI can seeWhat you want

EVERYONEBut you seem pretty youngTo be searching for that kind of fun

TANYA:So maybe I’m not the one

Now, you’re so cuteI like your style

EVERYONE:And I know what you meanWhen you give me a flash of that smile

TANYABut boy you’re only a child

EVERYONE:Well, I could dance with you honeyIf you think it’s funnyDoes your mother know that you’re out?And I could chat with you babyFlirt a little maybeDoes your mother know that you’re out?

PEPPER:Take it easyBetter slow down girlThat’s no way to go

EVERYONE:Does your mother know?

PEPPER:Take it easy

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TANYA:Try to cool it girlPlay it nice and slow

EVERYONE:Does your mother know?

Well, I could dance with you honeyIf you think it’s funnyDoes your mother know that you’re out?And I could chat with you babyFlirt a little maybeDoes your mother know that you’re out?

Well, I could dance with you honeyIf you think it’s funnyDoes your mother know that you’re out?And I could chat with you babyFlirt a little maybeDoes your mother know that you’re out? (x4)

TANYA: Coming through, we did good!

(Everybody leaves. Harry enters.)

DONNA: Hey Harry.

HARRY: Donna look. I think it must have been hard for you raising a child on your own and well… I’d like to make a small contribution to the wedding. (He gives her a check.)

DONNA: (Surprised) Harry I can’t accept this.

HARRY: Ah ah. I won’t take it back. (He leaves running.)

(Donna is sad and sitting down. Sophie enters carrying her wedding dress. Donna stands up and starts cleaning.)

DONNA: So, aren’t you ready yet. I’ll call Lisa and Ali to help you get ready.

SOPHIE: I was hoping you could help me.

DONNA: Of course.

(Slipping through my fingers. She’s very happy. They enter a room.Sophie goes out with a towel on her head. Donna varnishes her nails and combs her hair.)

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Slipping Through My Fingers

DONNA:Schoolbag in handShe leaves home in the early morningWaving goodbyeWith an absent-minded smileI watch her goWith a surge of that well-known sadnessAnd I have to sit down for a whileThe feeling that I'm loosing her foreverAnd without really entering her worldI'm glad whenever I can share her laughterThat funny little girl

Slipping through my fingers all the timeI try to capture every minuteThe feeling in itSlipping through my fingers all the timeDo I really see what's in her mind

Each time I think I'm close to knowingShe keeps on growingSlipping through my fingers all the time (1.24)

SOPHIE: Am I letting you down?

DONNA: What do you mean?

SOPHIE: It’s just that you have done so much raising a kid on your own.

DONNA: But honey; I didn’t have a choice. When I told my mother I was pregnant she kicked me away from home.

SOPHIE: I had no idea. So, you weren’t allowed to come back home.

DONNA: No. But I wanted to have you. I´ve always known I made the right choice.

SOPHIE: Mom, would you give me away today? At the altar?

DONNA: (Gladly surprised.) At the altar? (Crying.) Yes, sure I would.

(Slipping Through My Fingers. They hug and enter. Sophie goes out on stage with her wedding dress on; then Donna. They hug. Sophie leaves. Donna follows her but stops as Sam grabs her arm.)

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SAM: Donna, we have to talk, this is crazy.

DONNA: Not now Sam.

SAM: Yes now! This is not about Sophie or the wedding. This is about us!

(Donna starts singing.)

Winner Takes It Al (from 3’21” till the end.)

DONNA: I don't wanna talk'Cause it makes me feel sadAnd I understandYou've come to shake my handI apologizeIf it makes you feel badSeeing me so tenseNo self-confidence

But you see

The winner takes it allThe winner takes it all

The game is on againA lover or a friendA big thing or a smallThe winner takes it all.

(She leaves stage running for Sophie’s wedding at 4’21” Volume turns down. Sam leaves.)Donna and Sophie’s friends put some chairs on stage .)

BILL: I don’t know. I don’t know! I don’t think I’m strong enough

ROSIE: Come on! It’s not a big deal

BILL: Not a big deal?? This is family you know? This is not like one of my adventures! It is a big deal!!

ROSIE: Don’t tell me you never thought of having a family?

BILL: Not like this to be honest.

HARRY: Neither have I. Who has a family….spontaneously?

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(Everyone starts entering.)

LISA: Have you seen Sophie?

ALI: She looks lovely!

SKY: She looks so beautiful!

(They assume positions. Then Sophie enter with Sophie.)

PRIEST: Dearly beloved we’re gathered here today in this joyous occasion to celebrate the love that Sophie and Sky feel for each other. It’s their love that had made them come together and decide to join their lives in holy matrimony to become a new family. Sophie I would like to welcome Donna in particular who represents your family and now…

DONNA: And would also like to welcome Sophie’s father….. (Sam, Bill and Harry stand up) I’m sorry Sophie I know I should’ve told you.

SOPHIE: I know. I invited him!!

DONNA: Is that why they’re here?

SOPHIE: Yes, mom. Please forgive me for reading your diary.

DONNA: But I’m not sure who of them is! … (They sit down.) Oh Sophie I’m so sorry. Please, forgive me!

SOPHE: Forgive you? I don’t care anymore who my father is. I’m proud of being your daughter.

SAM: Let me get this straight. Sophie can be mine, but also Bill’s or Harry’s?

DONNA: Yes!! And don’t get so self righteous about it.

SOPHIE: If you hadn’t gone and left my mother to marry someone else, this would have never happened.

SAM: Yes, I left!! I was engaged but I came back!!

DONNA: Sorry? What do you say?

SAM: I broke up with Naomi and I came back because I was stupid enough to believe that you could be waiting for me. But when I arrived they told me you were out with some other guy.

BILL: Sorry man. I guess that was me.

DONNA: Shhh. Why haven’t you told me?

SAM: I’ve been trying to do so, but you haven’t given me a chance.

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HARRY: Sorry to interrupt, but for me it’s great to have a third of Sophie. I never thought I could have that much of a child.

BILL: Me too.

SAM: Me too. I’m sorry Sophie, for reacting like that.

ANN: Typical. There isn’t a father for 20 years and suddenly there are three in line.

TANYA: Tell me about it.

SOPHIE: Please wait. Mom, I’m sorry I haven’t realized all your work for me. Please, never give up on me. And Sky, I’m sorry but I don’t want to get married now.

SKY: Are you sure this is what you want?

SOPHIE: Pretty sure. I love you.

SKY: I love you, too.

(They leave. Donna interrupts.)

LISA: What now?

SAM: Now…………. why to waste a good wedding? (He kneels.) Donna Sheridan. Would you like to marry me?

I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do

SAM:I can't conceal itDon't you see?Can't you feel it?

GIRLS (Pause):Say I do, I do, I do, I do, I do

SAM:Donna, let's try it.You love me, don't deny it.

GIRLS:Say I do?

DONNA (Pause):I do, I do, I do, I do, I do: - 31 –

GIRLS:Oh, I've been dreaming through my lonely pastNow I've just made itI found you at lastSo come onNow let's try itI love youCan't deny it'Cause it's trueI do, I do, I do, I do, I do

Oh, no hard feelings between you and meIf we can't make itWe just wait and seeSo come on now, let's try itI love you, can't deny it

'Cause it's true, I do, I do, I do, I do, I do

Love me or leave meMake your choice but believe meI love you, I do, I do, I do, I do, I do

I can't conceal itDon't you see, can't you feel it?Don't you too? I do, I do, I do, I do, I do.

THE END

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