The Broadway production of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' global smash hit musical MAMMA MIA!, held firm in the Million Dollar Club again last week grossing $1,038,790. for 8 performances ending August 3rd and topping the previous week's gross of $1,022,164. (week ending July 27th).
After setting records in markets around the world, MAMMA MIA! – THE MOVIE opened in the United States to the best weekend ever for movie musical grossing $27.8 million, and has since grossed an estimated $88 million to date in the U.S. alone.
As MAMMA MIA! dominates stage and screen, Super Group ABBA's album "ABBA Gold" made it to #1 on the UK artist chart yesterday - outselling rock group Coldplay - and also topped the U.S. Billboard Charts last week at #1 on the Catalog Chart.
The MAMMA MIA! – THE MOVIE film soundtrack topped #1 on the U.S. Soundtrack Chart last week, #3 on the Billboard 200 and #1 on UK and Australian Charts. It has gone platinum in Canada, Greece, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and Australia, and Gold in the United States, Austria, Denmark and New Zealand.
The MAMMA MIA! Original Cast (London) recording placed #2 on the Billboard Show Music Chart last week, and #8 on the Catalog Chart.
Seen on stage by over 30 million people around the world, MAMMA MIA!, is celebrating more than 6 years on Broadway and is currently playing record-breaking engagements in Las Vegas and on National Tour in the United States.
There are currently 8 productions of MAMMA MIA! running around the world (6 resident productions and 2 tours). With a worldwide gross of over $2 Billion, MAMMA MIA! is acclaimed by the Associated Press as "quite simply, a phenomenon."
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.
MAMMA MIA! plays on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre (1634 Broadway) Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m., with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 2 and 7 p.m.
Ticket prices range from $62.50 -$111.25, including a $1.25 Shubert facility fee. Tickets are available by calling the MAMMA MIA! hotline at (212) 563-5544/(800) 432-7250; in person at the Winter Garden Box Office or online at
www.telecharge.com/mamma-mia and ;
