Richard East News

Mamma Mia!, currently running at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay Theatre, has reached its 32nd month of performances

A Spanish cast album of Mamma Mia! will be released on September 5th--the same month, the musical will reopen at Madrid's Lope de Vega Theatre after a summer hiatus

Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' smash hit musical MAMMA MIA! will welcome husband and wife Broadway stars John Dossett and Michele Pawk, Carey Anderson, Andy Kelso and Olga Merediz to Broadway on Wednesday, October 19th at the Cadillac Winter Garden Theatre (1634 Broadway at 50th Street).

Super Troupers, a documentary about ABBA with clips from Mamma Mia!, will re-air on August 11th with Carolee Carmello, Judy McLane and Sara Kramer appearing on the pledge breaks

For eight performances (week ending Sunday, July 31, 2005) the National Tour of MAMMA MIA! grossed C$1,404,449.

Mamma Mia!'s Carolee Carmello, Sara Kramer and Judy McLane will appear on a pledge drive for the ABBA documentary Super Troupers on August 4th

Liz McCartney, who played Rosie in Mamma Mia!, has left the ABBA musical due to be temporarily replaced by understudy Corinne McFadden

Mamma Mia!'s Sara Kramer will sing 'God Bless America' at Fenway Park's Yankees vs. Red Sox game on July 17th

The Las Vegas production of the ABBA musical Mamma Mia! will reach its 1000th performance at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on June 29th

When Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' MAMMA MIA! plays its 1500 performance on Sunday, May 15th

The League of American Theatres and Producers will honor the U.S. Tour of MAMMA MIA! with the 2005 'Touring Broadway Award' tonight (formerly the National Broadway Theatre Award) for Best Long Running Musical. The Awards will be presented at a ceremony at the Hilton Hotel in New York.

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Following its hugely successful 12 week run from November 2004, the International Tour of MAMMA MIA! which is currently in Estonia following a sold out season in South Africa, will go to Paris, Brussels, Lisbon, Zurich, Vienna and various German cities before returning to Edinburgh on 29th March 2005 for an 8 week season.

The Shakespeare Society will present Shakespeare's Fathers and Daughters, moderated by Harvard Professor Marjorie Garber, author of the acclaimed Shakespeare After All, on Monday, April 18th at The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College (68th Street between Park & Lexington Avenues) from 6:30 to 8:00 PM. Directed by Michael Sexton, Tony Award-winners Richard Easton (The Invention of Love) and Maryann Plunkett (Me and My Girl) along with Elizabeth Marvel (NYTW/Hedda Gabler) and Cherise Booth will perform scenes from several of Shakespeare's plays, including King Lear, Pericles, Much Ado About Nothing, and Romeo and Juliet.

Six fabulously successful years and 2,500 performances after it opened in London on April 6th 1999, the world's greatest hit musical MAMMA MIA! continues its record-shattering run.

For eight performances (week ending Sunday, March 6, 2005) the National Tour of MAMMA MIA! grossed a record breaking $696,369.at at The Robinson Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, topping a record previously held by the 2002 national tour of Beauty and the Beast.

Thanks to the huge generosity of audiences around the world, MAMMA MIA!, the world's Number 1 hit musical is able to make a contribution of $1.2 Million to funding relief for the tsunami-hit regions of South East Asia.

Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' MAMMA MIA!, the smash hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, enters its 3rd hit year at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino with a special performance on Thursday, February 17.

The smash hit musical, MAMMA MIA!, which in 2004 surpassed a worldwide gross of $1 billion dollars since opening in London five years ago, broke another record this week at the Cadillac Winter Garden Theatre.