According to the production site, the stage musical will run from February 24th 2016 until June 4th at Charlotte Theatre Stage. That's a pretty long run for a musical in South Korea.
The evergreen hit songs Dancing Queen, Honey Honey, Money Money were hooked up from the greatest hits sung by the Swedish group ABBA. It came from Britain in year 1999 and became so famous to US, Germany, France and other 49 countries worldwide.
The musical premiered in South Korea in 2004. So far it has attracted 1.7 million viewers around 33 cities including the capital city Seoul. The auditions took place 2 weeks in last June to determine the main leads. Around 1200 people took part in the audition. At the end the final list were restricted to Choi Jeong Won, Jeon Su Kyeong, Lee Gyeong Mi, Nam Gyeong Ju, Seong Gi Yoon and Lee Hyun Woo.
The opening of the musical is about a lady named Donna who is about to have her daughter Sophie getting married off. Sophie is curious to know her real father so she sends 3 invitation cards to 3 separate men whom she believed one might be her father from an old photograph. 3 men turned up at the wedding party - Sam who is an American architect, a British banking exec Harry and Bill who is an Aussie adventurer and writer. Donna gets confused seeing all her ex-lovers. Sophie thinks Bill is her father where the other men were convinced they were her real father.
Choi Jeong Won will play as Donna, Jeon Su Kyeong will be as Tanya, Lee Gyeong Mi as Rosie. Girls' Generation Seohyun and singer Park Ji Yeon will be playing as Sophie.
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