mamma mia sophie lines

opening

even if you fail sam carmicheal bill austin and harry bright! good luck

Aaaahhhhh!

Ali! Lisa! Where’ve you been? I thought you’d get here hours ago.

How’s your mom - I bet donna’s going nuts over this wedding?

I’ve been dying for you to get here. I’ve got a secret. You’re the only ones I can tell

Oh gosh, you’re pregnant!

No. I’ve invited my Dad to my wedding.

you mean you’ve finally found him?

not exactly. Look. I found this in mom’s desk

no, she’s supposed to go around reading yours

but look! 1979. Its the one she kept the year she got pregnant with me - you know how she won’t talk about my dad, she says she can’t rmemeber, but listen - July 17th. What a night! After the show, Sam rowed me over to the little island. We danced on the beach and kissed on the beach, and dot, dot, dot…

what?

dot dot dot - thats what they did in the olden days. Sam’s the one, I know he is - i’ve never felt like this before

A love machine?

Thats nothing -

So this guy sam is your dad?

the plot thickens. Sam told Mom he was going back home to get married

typical man…

hang on. August 4th. What a night! I was still feeling depressed about sam, but after the show, Bill rented a motor boat, and I took him over to the island. One thing led to another and dot dot dot

Bill?

August 15th. What a night! Harry turned up out of the blue, so I said I’d show him the island. I must need my head examined, bu the was so sweet, I couldn’t help it and dot dot dot

Harry…

yep. the sperm donor has a name. well three names. Sam bill or harry

and they’re all arriving for the wedding

yes

oh my gosh, soph, do they know?

what do you write to a total stranger? come to my wedding, you might be my Dad? No - they think mom sent the invitations - and after what’s in here I’m not surprised they said yes

oh my gosh soph - are you sure about this?

yes! i want the perfect wedding and i want my dad to give me away

lets hope its a wide aisle

weve got to keep mom out of the picture. she mustn’t know what I’ve done

she’s bound to see them sooner or later

I don’t want mom frightening them off before I’ve had a chance to know them - with any luck I’ll know my dad straight away

what if you don’t?

then I’ve got twenty four hours to find out

I pity the poor bank manager

auntie rosie

all that plastic surgery

Of course I do, auntie tanya

will you look at my baby - her whole life ahead of her

mom I’m getting married, not joining a convent

you just invent me a machine that’ll make the beds

if they did, you’d be going along behind it making them again. I know you mom

at least they might have some staff then. where is everybody

good afternoon. can i help you

Hi im bill austin. you have a room for me?

bill austin

im bright. harry bright

harry. so you must be

you are expecting us?

oh yes, ill go and ill get the keys

your donnas daughter

yes

i thought you looked familiar. sophie- sophia

its just sophie

no sophia’s the greek. I had a great-aunt sophia

i’m named after a sophia

yes its very kind of her to remember us

oh you can’t! youre a secret! I sent the invitations - mom doesn’t know

but wy?

oh moms always talking about her friends from the old days and i thought she’d be thrilled if I invited you all. But she’s got herself in such a state about this wedding - mention unexpected guests and she’ll hyperventilate

sophie hold on, are you trying to tell me donna didn’t invite me

no she did’t. so pretend you’re here for a holiday. she’ll get a lovely surpise when she sees you at my wedding and we can let her in on the secret.

so if youre the one who send the invitation, im still banned

but that was years ago. i want you here.

why

because - because it’s my wedding. and i want us all to be friends

youre just a little minx. youre worse than your mother. im glad you haven’t met my boys.

your boys? you have sons?

yeah, i’ve got two. gosh id love to bring them here some day

like you used to bring my mother

would there be a trouser press on the island

ill show you all to your rooms now

scene 5 the beach

where are you going

mud wrestling at medus’s and peppers bringing his hand cuffs

don’t go

what? and miss out on my last night of freedom

no i don’t mean don’t go - i mean is that how you really see it?

i see it as the last night before the biggest adventure of my llife come here

you know i said i wanted to find my dad

you dont need you dad, im here

yes oh sky whatever happens you’ll never leave me will you?

hey sophie. why marry the first guy that comes along

pepper

hey hen night. women only.

no no, we want the boys to stay, don’t we girls

sophie is alone with sam in the middle of gimme gimme

sorry to drag you away

thank gosh you did. this used to be such a quiet little island

regretting you stayed away so long

no im regretting i never knew what was here

what?

i alwasy meant to come back and built it some day, but donna she beat me to it

do you always prefer buildings over people

what

tell me something about my mom

we talked and we fought and we - you know it was me who brought her to this island

that wasn’t the only thing you did, was it?

what has she told you

nothing, shes never mentioned you

fancy donna with a grown up daughter

have you got any children, harry

no i haven’t put myself in the path of paternity

its never too late

i don’t think my other half would agree

oh you don’t want children

well id have liked a daughter. id have spoiled her to bits

lucky thing

is your dad here

i don’t know

what

i don’t know who my father is

can i be nosy?im a writer so it goes with the territory

go on

when i knew her she was singing in a night club on the mainland

she was left some money in a will. we lived with an old lady when i was little - mom looked after her. her name was sophia

my great aunt sophia

i think it must be

wait a minute how old are you

twenty

scene seven the jetty

bill-

i had to get some air

why did your great aunt leave my mother that money

i don’t know

you do - please tell me

what has your mother said

she won’t talk about the past. she doens’t understand why i need to know

youve got to talk to her

this has got nothing to do with her. all of my life theres been one big unanswered question and i don’t want any more secrecy

end of whats the name of the game

bill are you my father

i think so

you know what comes next

dont tell me youve got a twin sister

no will you give me away tomorrow

give you away

ill feel like a proper bride when i walk down the aisle with my father

ill find your mother

not tonight please. lets keep this our secret till the wedding

shell go crazy

she’ll be relieved! shell see us together and she’ll see we’re happy

i know why i’m here. and let me tell you , i think its great

sam…

ive always wanted a little girl, and a big one’s even better

oh, but sam I

i know im rushing things - does your mother know you know?

gosh, no she cant

no of course. listen whos giving you away

no one

wrong. i am

you!

oh my gosh - ive got it! talk about slow on the uptake! I’m your dad!

harry…

whats going on sophie? what are you doing? its six o clock in the morning

i dont know… I

wait right there

I’m all right mom

of course youre not all right - youre sleep walking again

again? when do i ever sleep walk

the time you couldn’t finish your times table

oh mom - get off, im not a baby

it can be stoped, it isn’t too late - i can sort out these wedding shenanigans

shenanigans? what do you mean shenanigans

im sorry its just a figure of speech

no that what you think isn’t it? im stupid to get married, its just a whim?

well im not pretending i really understand but…

of course you don’t. you did just fine without a man, didn’t you - you never did that marriage an babies thing. you just did the baby

what the hell’s going on here? why are you coming down on me?

I’m going to do it right, mom. I love sky and i want to be with him and I don’t want my children growing up not knowing who their father is because its crap

sorry sky

sky!

its bad luck to see each other

its all gone wrong anyway. sky look you’ve got to help me

why whats happened?

its a mess and its all my fault. i know i shouldn’t have but i read mom’s diary. I’ve got three possible dads

oh my gosh!

I invited them to the wedding. I thought I’d know who my father was as soon as I saw him but I didn’t, and now all three think they’re my dad and they’re all expecting to give me away

wait a minute go back a bit you did what?

i invited my dads to our wedding. it was three months ago, I’ wasn’t even sure they’d come

three months?

you’ve got to help me

why didn’t you tell me?

I knew you wouldn’t like it

i thought we had trust but you went behind my back for some stranger

no it wasn’t like that

is this what this big white weddings for? a set up so you can find your dad?

no its not that at all

but you insisited on this fantasy wedding so you could play happy families

it’s knowing who i am - i want to get married knowing who i am

i thought it was what you wanted. but i just don’t know anymore

you don’t know if you love me

listen you think about it

no sky wait

what’s going on

nothing - excuse me

let him go hes right you have to be sure what you really want

its got nothing to do with you-