Bobby Aitken News

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

The musical biography Lennon has moved back its opening date from August 4th to August 14th

The Creative Coalition, the nonprofit arts and entertainment community, will bring such stars as Olympia Dukakis and Marcia Gay Harden to the July 28th performance of the musical Lennon

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

Lennon, the Broadway musical opening on August 4th, will host the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus in New York City from July 25th to July 29th

The cast of Lennon, which opens at the Broadhurst Theatre on August 4th, will perform on NBC's Today Show on July 19th

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

Written and directed by Don Scardino, the cast includes Will Chase, Chuck Cooper, Julie Danao-Salkin, Mandy Gonzalez, Marcy Harriell, Chad Kimball, Terrence Mann, Julia Murney, and Michael Potts.

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

700 Sundays will extend its run through June 12th, and Lennon will now begin previews on July 7, top open August 4.

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.

Currently running in San Francisco, the show will skip its planned Boston run, and begin previews earlier than planned on June 28th. The show opens on Broadway on July 28, 2005.

The show runs in San Francisco through May 14, followed by Boston from May 31-June 25, and then Broadway where it begins previews on July 7 for a July 28 opening.

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.

Previews for LENNON begin tomorrow, Tuesday April 12th, at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco.

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.