It’s best not to think too hard or too long about “Mamma Mia!,” which opened to nearly packed house at Robinson Center Music Hall on Tuesday night. This is the second time the ABBA-stuffed musical has slapped on the spandex for Little Rock audiences and this run comes after the huge-selling adaptation for the big screen. At some point you would think the thirst for this jukebox musical silliness would be satisfied — but it hasn’t happened yet.
When you concentrate too much on “Mamma Mia!” — specifically on the book concocted by Catherine Johnson — things start to bug. Sure, one of the first lines from the opening number mentions “fairy tale” but the whole plot — young girl on faraway Greek island clashes with her independent mother as she sifts for her father among three candidates before marching down the aisle to be wed — strains on your willing suspension of disbelief.