Mamma Mia! Broadway stars
Carolee Carmello and
Judy McLane will be featured on XM Satellite Radio's "On Broadway" Channel 28 on Tuesday, October 17th at 12Noon and 9:00pm EST.
Host John Von Soosten will talk to the ladies about the musical's 5th Broadway Anniversary, play cuts from the
Mamma Mia! Special Edition CD with bonus DVD and discuss the new coffee table book
Mamma Mia!: How Can I Resist You?, both of which are release that day.
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Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' global hit musical
Mamma Mia! celebrates five years on Broadway on Wednesday, October 18that the Cadillac Winter Garden Theatre (1634 Broadway at 50th Street) with a special 7:00 p.m. performance to benefit the
Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative of The Actors' Fund of America.
In celebration of playing five sold-out years on Broadway, the
Mamma Mia! 5th Anniversary Special Edition CD with bonus DVD will be released by Decca Broadway on Tuesday, October 17th. The special edition CD will include music from the best-selling original cast album as well as three finale bonus audio tracks which are released in the U.S. for the first time including "Mamma Mia", "Dancing Queen" and "Waterloo" and a deluxe booklet featuring cast photos and a gallery of "Donna Sheridans" from around the world. The bonus DVD will feature a behind the scenes documentary telling the story of
Mamma Mia! so far, hosted by original Broadway cast members
Joe Machota and
Tina Maddigan, ABBA concert clips and performance footage of different productions of
Mamma Mia! from around the world.
Also on Tuesday, October 17th,
Mamma Mia!, How Can I Resist You?, the first officially sanctioned book to tell the double story behind both ABBA's music and the smash hit musical, will be released by Sterling Publishing. Through first person recollections from ABBA founding members
Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and
Mamma Mia! global producer and creator Judy Craymer, the book explores the musical phenomenon beginning with the legendary ABBA songs that inspired the international success of
Mamma Mia! and follows the extraordinary story of how the show became the world's number one musical.
There are currently 11 productions of the show running around the world (9 resident productions and 2 tours). With three productions playing in North America alone, the musical has more productions playing around the world than any other current Broadway musical and can be experienced in six different languages globally (English, Swedish, Spanish, German, Japanese and Russian). With a worldwide gross of over $1.6 Billion and audiences of over 27 million people worldwide,
Mamma Mia! is acclaimed by the Associated Press as "quite simply, a phenomenon."
Visit
www.mamma-mia.com for more information.
