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Make no mistake about it: the current production of Mamma Mia!, the musical theater hit now onstage at Tennessee Performing Arts Center's Andrew Jackson Hall is just as entertaining, just as over-the-top in all its ABBAesque glory that audiences cannot help but be awestruck by the sheer theatricality of the piece, enthralled by the cavalcade of songs that provide the show's score and delighted by the efforts of the company's talented and eager-to-please and generally eye-poppingly gorgeous ensemble.

Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus' MAMMA MIA!, the smash hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, returns to The Playhouse on Rodney Square from Friday, March 4 to Sunday, March 6.

MAMMA MIA! is one of the most successful musicals of all time, the eighth longest running show in Broadway history and one of only five current musicals to have run for more than ten years on Broadway. The West End production is now in its seventeenth year. The international tour has visited more than 81 foreign cities in 37 countries.  BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the cast in action below!

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Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus' MAMMA MIA!, the smash hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, will continue its successful North American tour in 2015-2016. The tour will visit more than 50 cities including St. Louis, Chicago, Anchorage, Los Angeles, and Cleveland.

Rachel is now an official selection of the 2015 Fresh Fruit Festival. Written by native New Jersey brother-and-sister writing team (Book and lyrics by Jessie Field; music by Jared Field), Rachel will be presented for the first time as a full production at The Wild Project Theatre.

Twist and shout your way through early 1960's Baltimore with the big-hearted, big-haired Tracy Turnblad and friends at Dutch Apple

Broadway Palm is set to take you on a journey through the middle years as it presents Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical playing today, May 29 through June 21, 2014. The book, music and lyrics are by theatre veterans, turned playwrights, Bob and Jim Walton. The hysterical musical comedy pokes fun at the complicated, yet inevitable, subject of aging.

Broadway Palm is set to take you on a journey through the middle years as it presents Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical playing May 29 through June 21, 2014. The book, music and lyrics are by theatre veterans, turned playwrights, Bob and Jim Walton. The hysterical musical comedy pokes fun at the complicated, yet inevitable, subject of aging.

As the calendar turns to February, the weather is, for the moment remarkably mild. Spring, though, is far off and cold, dreary days are still to come. It's the perfect time to sit in a cozy theater and have your spirits lifted watching a hysterical play that fills you with the warmth of joyfulness and fun. Ocean State Theatre Company has exactly what you need with their production of Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor.

Seth Greenleaf directs a varied ensemble in the musical comedy that shows the common experiences of women of a certain age.