Some pop culture performers, movies and musicals are critic-proof.

To name a few on my list: The Beatles, Marilyn Monroe, “North by Northwest,” ABBA, and thereby, “Mamma Mia!”

Even if this were not the case, the Northampton Community College Bill Mutimer Memorial 2024 Summer Theatre Series production of “Mamma Mia!,“ through July 28, is beyond criticism for the sheer exuberance of its performers, an excellent on-stage pop-rock band and some spectacular costumes.

The 2 p.m. July 21 performance was seen for this review.

George Bernard Shaw is said to have observed, “Youth is wasted on the young.” The NCC “Mamma Mia!” cast, especially the youthful Ensemble, doesn’t waste it. They spin, they leap, they dance with energetic delight.

Credit choreographer Cristina Sohns Williams, who keeps the numerous and very lively dancers moving in Busby Berkeley movie-style circles and lines, an excellent visual for the three-quarter-round arena stage.

The choreography is especially splashy for “Does Your Mother Know” and “I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do.”

The Ensemble includes Bella Ambroise, Abby Arza, Isabelle Awald, Camilla Backman, Julianna Braga, Azelia Dos Santos, Yul Carrion, Adrian Colon-Burgos, Harrison Fox, Michael Guerriere, Bowen Huang, Deborah Katz, Maria Pallete, Mina Price, Julio Hernandez, Cade Kocher, Danny Melo, Sergio Salinas, Lyndsey Sommons, Anjelica Soto, Jenna Williamson (Dance Captain), Megan Wolfe, Connor Sternberg and Zayne Thomie.

Speaking of energy, the nine-member band, conducted by Music Director Chad Miller (who is also on percussion). plays powerful versions of the ABBA songs, with four, count ‘em, four keyboards, each played by Adam Stotz, Patricia O’Connell, John Huie and Michael Marini; two guitars, each played by Tom Zaneski and Stephen Collins; bass, played by Thomas Lewis, and drums, played by Jimmy Arrizza Jr. The songs of ABBA are high-hat slap happy drum and rumbling bass-driven disco burners. The songs are intensely and relentlessly upbeat.

The musical, “Mamma Mia!,” with its title taken from ABBA’s 1975 hit, debuted in 2001 on Broadway. A movie version, released in 2008 and a sequel, “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again,” released in 2018, starred Allentown native Amanda Seyfried as Sophie.

The musical’s some 24 songs, including the encore, with music and lyrics by Benny Anderson and Bjorn UIvaeus and some songs by Stig Anderson, are deceptively simple. In fact, they are difficult to sing with sometimes odd word emphasis, shifting time signatures and challenging sonic modulations.

Jenny Bianchini, as Sophie the bride-to-be, sings the opening number, one of the show’s few ballads, “I Have a Dream,” with sweet resignation. Bianchini humorously sings “Under Attack,” augmented by the Ensemble in all-black, swarming her bed as if from a scene in Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice.”

Beth Linzer, as Donna, Sophie’s mother, joins with the Company for the title song, “Mamma Mia!,” and with Rebecca Pieper (Tanya) and Andrea Marshall-Money (Rosie), from their former trio, Donna and the Dynamos, for several, well, dynamo, ABBA songs: “Money, Money, Money,” “Dancing Queen” and “Super Trouper.”

The musical puts the spotlight on the would-be fathers, notably with Beth Linzer (Donna) and Matt Michael (Sam) in “S.O.S”; Jenny Bianchini (Sophie) and Daniel Arzberger (Bill) in “The Name of the Game,” and Beth Linzer (Donna) and Will Windsor Erwin (Harry) in “Our Last Summer.”

Jenny Bianchini (Sophie) joins Angelina Dries (Ali), Lydia Walker (Lisa) and Company for a rousing “Honey, Honey.”

Jenny Bianchini (Sophie) duets with Max Wetherhold (Sky) and Company for “Lay All Your Love on Me.”

The cast includes Mateo Villarreal (Pepper), Calum Sullivan (Eddie) and Aidan Weller (Father Alexandrios).

Clair M. Freeman directs “Mamma Mia!” with a wonderful sense of joy, making the musical great fun for performers and often laugh-out-loud funny for the audience.

Tech Director and Set and Lighting Designer Brett Oliveira utilizes the arena stage to its fullest. Costumer Brenda Maguire and Pierre’s Costumes provide double and triple bell bottom costumes for Donna and the Dynamos (and a surprise trio).

The Swedish pop band ABBA, founded in 1972 and disbanded in 1982, is one of the most successful music groups ever, having sold an estimated 385 million records worldwide.

“ABBA Voyage,” with motion-capture digital avatars of the four ABBA band members and a 10-piece live band, opened in 2022 in London.

“Mamma Mia!” is a jukebox musical as few others. It doesn’t follow the storyline of the creators of the songs, but seamlessly weaves the songs into a fictional storyline in the book by Catherine Johnson as originally conceived by Judy Craymer.

If you are a fan of ABBA and the musical and movies, and especially of the 1970s, don’t miss “Mamma Mia!” at Northampton Community College Summer Theatre.

“Mamma Mia!,” 7:30 p.m. July 24-27; 2 p.m. July 28, Lipkin Theater, Northampton Community College, 3835 Green Pond Road, Bethlehem Township. 484-484-3412, https://www.ncctix.org/