MAMMA MIA!'S Beth Leavel Guests On 'Downstage Center'

Tony Award® winner Beth Leavel, now starring as "Donna Sheridan" in Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' global smash hit musical MAMMA MIA! on Broadway, is featured on the American Theatre Wing's "Downstage Center" radio pod cast series.

Now listen to the complete hour long radio program online by visiting:
http://americantheatrewing.org/downstagecenter/detail/beth_leavel

Beth Leavel recently starred as "the Witch" in Into the Woods at Pittsburgh CLO, "Miss Hannigan" in Annie at the St. Louis MUNY as well as the world premiere musical Minsky's at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles and in City Center Encores! production of No, No, Nanette. She received 2006 Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critic's Circle and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle awards for her title role performance in The Drowsy Chaperone. She has appeared in the Broadway musicals Young Frankenstein, 42nd Street (original and revival), The Civil War, Showboat and the original company of Crazy for You.

"Downstage Center" is the American Theatre Wing's acclaimed weekly theatrical interview program that spotlights the creative talents on Broadway, Off-Broadway, across the country and around the world, with in-depth conversations that simply can't be found anywhere else. Now in its fifth year, Downstage Center, produced in association with CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, has been featured by the Associated Press and Slate.com as the place to go for theatrical talk. New editions will be available every Monday at http://americantheatrewing.org/where you can listen online, download the programs or subscribe to the podcast.

Seen by over 40 million people around the world, MAMMA MIA!, is celebrating over 3,400 performances in its eighth smash hit year at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre and remains among Broadway's top selling musicals. The originAl West End production of MAMMA MIA! is celebrating 10 years and over 4,000 performances in London, an international tour has visited more than 40 foreign cities, and the blockbuster feature film adaptation, produced by Judy Craymer and Gary Goetzman, is the most successful movie musical of all time grossing $600 million worldwide.

With a worldwide gross of over $2 Billion, MAMMA MIA! is acclaimed by the Associated Press as "quite simply, a phenomenon."

For tickets, schedule and information about MAMMA MIA! around the world:
www.mamma-mia.com

Photo credit: Walter McBride