August 6, 2025 • 10 mins
A big party is coming to Wellington's St James Theatre this month.
The acclaimed Mamma Mia musical is taking the stage over August, with the Wellington-based cast performing all of Abba's greatest hits over a two-week season.
Nick was lucky enough to be joined by a very sparkly Donna and the Dynamos in studio to discuss the show and perform a classic Abba tune.
Mamma Mia is on at the St James Theatre from August 13th to 31st. Tickets from Ticketmaster.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Wellington Mornings podcast with Nick Mills
from News Talk said, b.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's the name of the show and it's coming to
the James Theater next this month. It's actually this month.
We're in August. Mama Mia is taking stage or just
about all of the August. It starts next week and
we're lucky enough to have the very beautiful I mean,
we should be on TV with you looking like this.
You look magnificent. It's the best looking cast that I've
ever had on the show. It's history much Do I
(00:47):
get to get a photo I'm looking? Yeah, I wouldn't
want to get in a photo and make them look
they look gorgeous. Donna and the Dynamos, Georgia, Jody and
Jemma welcome. You do look magnificent, But you know that
how did you come up? How did you arrive here
looking like that?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Strutted across the road from the Saint James Theater.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yes, what did you say? What did you say strutted?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I thought it sounded like somebody else I was thinking,
So you did you come? Walk all the way down
Courtney Place across the road?
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Jimma actually stopped traffic.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
She did.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
She didn't stop the traffic. She wasn't Yeah, she wasn't
waiting for any get Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
For everybody that thinks there's a problem on Courtney Place,
of these beautiful young ladies can walk down Courtney Place,
dress like they are and get into the studio without
being a soldier.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
I feel sorry for someone if they tried to take out.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Honestly, we're not mucking around.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
We can take them.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
We're about bringing joy to Wellington. We are in the
show and in our day to day lives.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You brought joy to me to know that you can
walk down Courtney play, stress right down and get here alive. No,
that's a terrible thing to say. Who tell us a
little bit about the show? Come on, Georgia, you start,
You tell us what. What's the greatest part of the show.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
You the greatest part of the show. Other three ladies,
we're sitting in front of your honestly, because here we are.
We're all in our forties now, and we get to
have this much amount of fun. We get to go
every night dressed up in sequins and fake eyelashes, and
we get to sing these songs night after night. And
I didn't expect that. I would be doing it in
(02:28):
my stage of life, but here we are. So this
is this is a show about celebrating these amazing women
and these female friendships. And we let all the young
people do the hard dancing, don't we They can do it,
They can do the high kecks and split yes, and
we just lots we bring show.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, absolutely, Now, Jody, you all look amazing and life
begins at forty you're very young ladies. Still what do
you enjoy most about it?
Speaker 6 (02:54):
I just love dancing around to Ebba with fantastic people.
We've just had such a great time. It's been just
it's heartwarming. The cast all Valentonians, and we have just
all together as a team, and we have a fabulous
director called Meyer who has just had such a beautiful vision.
And yeah, it's just been an absolute blast from for me.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Ebba was and and I know I'm right, two women
and two guys. You're three women, this is correct, But
this is not their.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
No.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Look, we're bringing an entire cast of men and women
to the stage and telling this amazing story. And you know,
for a lot of people, and I hope you're one
of them. The minute you hear the opening to one
of those classic Ever songs, the piano tone and incredible band.
You want to get up?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
You want to? You want to?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Are they allowed to? People have to? I almost feel
like I want to get up and dance.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Now you have to dance. It is a purpose, a
lot going on, encouraging you to get up and join
into the part, joining the party because it is.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
You're pretty damn excited by it?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Really? That got A show is phenomenal. We're in a
it of course it's great. But I do some shows
that I walk out of here and go, God, there
was crap.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
No, No, this isn't crap.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
This is amazing, this is beautiful.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I think it's just it's joyful. It's big, bright, celebratory.
I mean, it's going to be infectious energy from stut It's.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Everything Wellington needs right now.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Absolutely I agree looking at you, all three of you,
I definitely agree.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
And when you're blinded, aren't you blinded?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
See? I can't even say my words. That's how That's
how it is. Okay, George, what's your favorite spot on
the show? What's your your little face? You know your
hair goes up in the back of your hair head.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Well, I'm really lucky that I get to do this
one big show stopping number in act two where I'm
essentially center stage and everybody dances around me.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
You're cougar, I am.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I'm a bit of a cougar character, and I'm having
such fun with that because I just get to sort
of stand there in the middle and pose and all
these other people around me make me look fabulous.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Can I tell people that can only hear this? That
would be worth while going to that? Jody, what's your
favorite spot?
Speaker 6 (05:16):
My favorite is my number where I get to chase
a man around the stage and catch him. Oh yes,
I catch him at the end. I catch him and
throw him around that stage at the end, and my
red jumpson my post and he is the best time
of his life.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Can I just it is a not an r at
family show.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
It's a family show.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
No, we do have a lot of fun. Yeah, So
the numbers are great, all the songs. Everybody knows the
songs and they're intertwined in this beautiful story and it's
just a fantastic.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Okay, Jimma, what's your favorite spot? And it's when you perform?
Speaker 7 (05:50):
No, it's at the very end.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
We're all on stage we sing. I don't think it's
a spoiler. You've got Mama Mia, You've got Dancing Queen,
You've got Waterloo one after another, bang bang bang. This
is the moment where the whole audience can get up.
The band is going for it, the cast is going
for it, and it's it's pretty special.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, okay, do you do money, Money Money? It's my
favorite ever we do?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Yes, we do.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Okay, can you dedicate it to me next time? Money
Money Money? I like that song. We have the cast, well,
some of the cast from Mama Mia in the studio,
Donna and the Dynamos, Georgia, Jody and Jemma. Well, it's
been really good and have a bit of a chat
and just quickly before you start singing. We have two
double passes to give away for the Red Carpet opening,
(06:33):
which is next Wednesday, the thirteenth of August at seven
thirty pm. If you want to head along, give us
a call now. On eight hundred and eighty ten eight
eighty Mama Mia actually runs at the Saint James, which
is the most beautiful theater in the world. For me,
I'm a little bit biased. From the thirteenth of August
to the thirty first of August. Tickets are available from
(06:53):
ticket Master. Let's start with a song, and I hope
I don't cry. Let's go.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
I was seem tired of everything. When a song your
last night in glass go. All I do is eat
and sleep and see eenguishing. Every show was, every show.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Was then Matos Glaty, Here you Glaty, you coming. I
ride And suddenly it's gonna be be so different when
I'm on the stage to night. Tonight the super bowls
are gonna find me shining like the sun, smiling, having fun.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
Feeling like a number one.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
To night the super tu bad beings are gone blind me,
but I won't feel blue like I always do, because
somewhere in the crowd there.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
You fixing twenty thousand of your friends happen. Anyonet be
(08:39):
so love me. I love a success that never ends.
Speaker 8 (08:45):
Still thinking up about still, I'm thinking to hell when
I think I'm going crazy, I'm going crazy.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
But it's going to be right. You assume me changing
every day be so different When I'm on the stage
to night.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
That supera Truba lights are gonna find me shining like
the sun, smiling.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Having fun, feeling like a number one to Night the
Supera Tu Bu.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Things are gonna blind me, but I won't.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Be boo like I always do, because somewhere in the
crowd there.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
You so I'll be there.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
When you lie, sight of you will teach me I'm
still lying. When you take me in your own no time, I.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
Know it's gonna mean so much Tonight, tonight, Supera topa
lights are gonna find me shining.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Like the sun, smiling, having Wow, Everybody's going to have
fun at the show.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Georgia, Jody, Jimma, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
For more from Wellington Mornings with Nick Mills. Listen live
to news talks It'd be Wellington from nine am weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Wellington Mornings podcast with Nick Mills
from News Talk said, b.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's the name of the show and it's coming to
the James Theater next this month. It's actually this month.
We're in August. Mama Mia is taking stage or just
about all of the August. It starts next week and
we're lucky enough to have the very beautiful I mean,
we should be on TV with you looking like this.
You look magnificent. It's the best looking cast that I've
ever had on the show. It's history much Do I
(00:47):
get to get a photo I'm looking? Yeah, I wouldn't
want to get in a photo and make them look
they look gorgeous. Donna and the Dynamos, Georgia, Jody and
Jemma welcome. You do look magnificent, But you know that
how did you come up? How did you arrive here
looking like that?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Strutted across the road from the Saint James Theater.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yes, what did you say? What did you say strutted?
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I thought it sounded like somebody else I was thinking,
So you did you come? Walk all the way down
Courtney Place across the road?
Speaker 5 (01:22):
Jimma actually stopped traffic.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
She did.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
She didn't stop the traffic. She wasn't Yeah, she wasn't
waiting for any get Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
For everybody that thinks there's a problem on Courtney Place,
of these beautiful young ladies can walk down Courtney Place,
dress like they are and get into the studio without
being a soldier.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
I feel sorry for someone if they tried to take out.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Honestly, we're not mucking around.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
We can take them.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
We're about bringing joy to Wellington. We are in the
show and in our day to day lives.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You brought joy to me to know that you can
walk down Courtney play, stress right down and get here alive. No,
that's a terrible thing to say. Who tell us a
little bit about the show? Come on, Georgia, you start,
You tell us what. What's the greatest part of the show.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
You the greatest part of the show. Other three ladies,
we're sitting in front of your honestly, because here we are.
We're all in our forties now, and we get to
have this much amount of fun. We get to go
every night dressed up in sequins and fake eyelashes, and
we get to sing these songs night after night. And
I didn't expect that. I would be doing it in
(02:28):
my stage of life, but here we are. So this
is this is a show about celebrating these amazing women
and these female friendships. And we let all the young
people do the hard dancing, don't we They can do it,
They can do the high kecks and split yes, and
we just lots we bring show.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, absolutely, Now, Jody, you all look amazing and life
begins at forty you're very young ladies. Still what do
you enjoy most about it?
Speaker 6 (02:54):
I just love dancing around to Ebba with fantastic people.
We've just had such a great time. It's been just
it's heartwarming. The cast all Valentonians, and we have just
all together as a team, and we have a fabulous
director called Meyer who has just had such a beautiful vision.
And yeah, it's just been an absolute blast from for me.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Ebba was and and I know I'm right, two women
and two guys. You're three women, this is correct, But
this is not their.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
No.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Look, we're bringing an entire cast of men and women
to the stage and telling this amazing story. And you know,
for a lot of people, and I hope you're one
of them. The minute you hear the opening to one
of those classic Ever songs, the piano tone and incredible band.
You want to get up?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
You want to? You want to?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Are they allowed to? People have to? I almost feel
like I want to get up and dance.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Now you have to dance. It is a purpose, a
lot going on, encouraging you to get up and join
into the part, joining the party because it is.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
You're pretty damn excited by it?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Really? That got A show is phenomenal. We're in a
it of course it's great. But I do some shows
that I walk out of here and go, God, there
was crap.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
No, No, this isn't crap.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
This is amazing, this is beautiful.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
I think it's just it's joyful. It's big, bright, celebratory.
I mean, it's going to be infectious energy from stut It's.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Everything Wellington needs right now.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Absolutely I agree looking at you, all three of you,
I definitely agree.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
And when you're blinded, aren't you blinded?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
See? I can't even say my words. That's how That's
how it is. Okay, George, what's your favorite spot on
the show? What's your your little face? You know your
hair goes up in the back of your hair head.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Well, I'm really lucky that I get to do this
one big show stopping number in act two where I'm
essentially center stage and everybody dances around me.
Speaker 7 (04:56):
You're cougar, I am.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I'm a bit of a cougar character, and I'm having
such fun with that because I just get to sort
of stand there in the middle and pose and all
these other people around me make me look fabulous.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Can I tell people that can only hear this? That
would be worth while going to that? Jody, what's your
favorite spot?
Speaker 6 (05:16):
My favorite is my number where I get to chase
a man around the stage and catch him. Oh yes,
I catch him at the end. I catch him and
throw him around that stage at the end, and my
red jumpson my post and he is the best time
of his life.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Can I just it is a not an r at
family show.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
It's a family show.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
No, we do have a lot of fun. Yeah, So
the numbers are great, all the songs. Everybody knows the
songs and they're intertwined in this beautiful story and it's
just a fantastic.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Okay, Jimma, what's your favorite spot? And it's when you perform?
Speaker 7 (05:50):
No, it's at the very end.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
We're all on stage we sing. I don't think it's
a spoiler. You've got Mama Mia, You've got Dancing Queen,
You've got Waterloo one after another, bang bang bang. This
is the moment where the whole audience can get up.
The band is going for it, the cast is going
for it, and it's it's pretty special.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, okay, do you do money, Money Money? It's my
favorite ever we do?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Yes, we do.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Okay, can you dedicate it to me next time? Money
Money Money? I like that song. We have the cast, well,
some of the cast from Mama Mia in the studio,
Donna and the Dynamos, Georgia, Jody and Jemma. Well, it's
been really good and have a bit of a chat
and just quickly before you start singing. We have two
double passes to give away for the Red Carpet opening,
(06:33):
which is next Wednesday, the thirteenth of August at seven
thirty pm. If you want to head along, give us
a call now. On eight hundred and eighty ten eight
eighty Mama Mia actually runs at the Saint James, which
is the most beautiful theater in the world. For me,
I'm a little bit biased. From the thirteenth of August
to the thirty first of August. Tickets are available from
(06:53):
ticket Master. Let's start with a song, and I hope
I don't cry. Let's go.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
I was seem tired of everything. When a song your
last night in glass go. All I do is eat
and sleep and see eenguishing. Every show was, every show.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Was then Matos Glaty, Here you Glaty, you coming. I
ride And suddenly it's gonna be be so different when
I'm on the stage to night. Tonight the super bowls
are gonna find me shining like the sun, smiling, having fun.
Speaker 7 (07:59):
Feeling like a number one.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
To night the super tu bad beings are gone blind me,
but I won't feel blue like I always do, because
somewhere in the crowd there.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
You fixing twenty thousand of your friends happen. Anyonet be
(08:39):
so love me. I love a success that never ends.
Speaker 8 (08:45):
Still thinking up about still, I'm thinking to hell when
I think I'm going crazy, I'm going crazy.
Speaker 7 (08:54):
But it's going to be right. You assume me changing
every day be so different When I'm on the stage
to night.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
That supera Truba lights are gonna find me shining like
the sun, smiling.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Having fun, feeling like a number one to Night the
Supera Tu Bu.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Things are gonna blind me, but I won't.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Be boo like I always do, because somewhere in the
crowd there.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
You so I'll be there.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
When you lie, sight of you will teach me I'm
still lying. When you take me in your own no time, I.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
Know it's gonna mean so much Tonight, tonight, Supera topa
lights are gonna find me shining.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Like the sun, smiling, having Wow, Everybody's going to have
fun at the show.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Georgia, Jody, Jimma, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
For more from Wellington Mornings with Nick Mills. Listen live
to news talks It'd be Wellington from nine am weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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