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MAMMA MIA! 's 25th Anniversary Tour is one of those shoes that is definitely is a product of the time in which it was written. Unless your a massive ABBA fan (Jake and I are not) there are better jukebox musicals out there. For those unfamilliar with the musical or it's film adaptation, the show is about a young woman named Sophie who invites the three men named in her mother's diary that could potentially be her biological father to her upcoming wedding. All three men show u

“When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.” This is the opening line to S. E. Hinton’s 1967 novel The Outsiders, a work which I didn’t fully appreciate until well after having first read it in a middle school English class. When I found out the musical’s national tour would be coming to Detroit’s Fisher Theatre I was curious to find out how a musical would adapt the book for