Mamma Mia!'s Stars Take Part in WLIW Pledge Drive, 8/11

Mamma Mia! stars Leah Hocking and Olga Merediz will be featured during pledge break segments during PBS' WLIW Channel 21 fundraising drive airing of "ABBA In Concert" tomorrow - Friday, August 11th from 2:30 - 3:30pm and 7:30 - 8:30pm. Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' global smash hit musical  celebrates five years on Broadway on Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 at the Cadillac Winter Garden Theatre.There are currently 11 productions of Mamma Mia! running around the world (9 resident productions and 2 tours). With three productions playing in North America alone, the show has more productions playing around the world than any other current Broadway musical and can be experienced in six different languages globally.

Mamma Mia! is produced by Judy Craymer, Richard East and Ulvaeus for Littlestar in association with Universal. It features music and lyrics by Andersson and Ulvaeus, a book by Catherine Johnson and directed by Phyllida Lloyd. The musical 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.

Broadway's Mamma Mia! also currently stars Judy McLane as Tanya and John Dossett as Sam, among others. Hocking (All Shook Up, Hairspray) plays Donna while Merediz (Reckless, Man of La Mancha) appears as Rosie.

For more information and tickets, visit www.mamma-mia.com.