Tucker, Mahaney Lead MAMMA MIA! North American Tour

MAMMA MIA! announces casting for the upcoming 2010 - 2011 tour. The tour continues playing to record breaking houses all across North America.

Leading the cast of 30 of MAMMA MIA! is Kaye Tuckerman as "Donna Sheridan," the independent single mother whose carefree past catches up with her on the eve of her daughter's wedding. Bride-to-be "Sophie Sheridan" is played by Chloe Tucker; her fiancé "Sky" is played by Happy Mahaney.

Mary Callanan and Alison Ewing play Donna's best friends and former back-up band, "Rosie" and "Tanya," (respectively) who reunite with their best friend on the island for Sophie's wedding. The three men from Donna's past and Sophie's possible dads are John Bisom ("Sam Carmichael"), John-Michael Zuerlein ("Bill Austin"), and Paul DeBoy ("Harry Bright"). Sophie's & Sky's best friends are played by Stephanie Barnum ("Ali"), Elena Marisa Flores ("Lisa"), Ethan Le Phong ("Pepper") and James Michael Lambert ("Eddie").

MAMMA MIA!'s ensemble features Jeff Applegate, Amy Biedel, Julius Chase, Thomasina E. Gross, Sean Hayden, Carole Denise Jones, Alison Luff, Marlene Martinez, Mario Matthews, Brian Ray Norris, Merrill Peiffer, Christopher Sergeeff, Jennifer Swinderski and Travis Taber.

In the 2010 - 2011 season, MAMMA MIA! will walk down the aisle for the first time, making premiere performances, in Alaska, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, West Virginia and Wyoming. MAMMA MIA will return to Detroit, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Providence and Tampa for a remarkable fifth return visit. In total, the tour has played over 3,000 performances in over 130 cities with 125 repeat visits.

Seen by over 42 million people around the world, MAMMA MIA!, is celebrating over 3,650 performances in its ninth smash hit year on Broadway at The Winter Garden Theatre and remains one of 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 50 foreign cities, and the blockbuster feature film adaptation is the most successful movie musical of all time grossing over $600 million worldwide.

MAMMA MIA! is also being presented in Australia, Korea and Japan. Over the next year, productions of MAMMA MIA! will premiere in Brazil, Milan, Copenhagen, Paris, China, Madrid and South Africa.

With a worldwide gross of over $2 Billion, the global smash hit musical is acclaimed by the Associated Press as "quite simply, a phenomenon."

MAMMA MIA! is produced by Judy Craymer, Richard East and Björn Ulvaeus for Littlestar in association with Universal, the creative team responsible for bringing MAMMA MIA! to theatrical life includes some of the most gifted and celebrated talents of musical theatre and opera. With music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, MAMMA MIA! is written by Catherine Johnson and directed by Phyllida Lloyd. MAMMA MIA! has choreography by Anthony Van Laast, production design by Mark Thompson, lighting design by Howard Harrison, sound design by Andrew Bruce and Bobby Aitken, and musical supervision, additional material and arrangements by Martin Koch.

For tickets, schedule and information about MAMMA MIA!:
http://www.mammamianorthamerica.com/