Craymer says it's a "big life" to try to fit into 110 minutes. Another project also in the works is a third "Mamma Mia!" film, which she thinks could be an "event movie" given its broad appeal.

But the Swedish super group ABBA didn’t write “Mamma Mia!” thinking about this eventual ... opening there in 1999), was devised to fit the hits, which, for the most part, it does.

“MAMMA MIA!,” the beloved jukebox musical that brings ABBA’s discography to life onstage, is running at the Citizens Opera House through Oct. 6. The show follows Donna (Christine Sherrill ...