Two-time Tony Award nominated Broadway favorite, MAMMA MIA! star Carolee Carmello paid tribute to cancer survivor Kathy Brinkman on “The Today Show” with a special performance on Kathie Lee Gifford’s and Hoda Kotb’s “Everyone Has a Story” series.
Carmello performed an original song featuring music by
David Friedman and lyrics by Gifford that was inspired by words Brinkman had written about herself: “No one is promised tomorrow…that is the reason to live for today.”
NOW, WATCH THE SEGMENT ONLINE:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27101467/Seen by more than 32 million people around the world, MAMMA MIA!, is celebrating 7 sold-out years at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theatre, and is currently playing record-breaking engagements in Las Vegas and on National Tour in the United States.
The original West End production has played nearly 4,000 performances, an international tour has played in more than 40 foreign cities, and this summer’s blockbuster feature film adaptation of MAMMA MIA!, produced by
Judy Craymer and Gary Goetzman, continues to smash box office records around the world.
There are currently 8 productions of MAMMA MIA! running globally (six resident productions, two tours). With three productions playing in North America alone, MAMMA MIA! has more productions playing around the world than any other current Broadway musical. With a worldwide gross of over $2 Billion, MAMMA MIA! is acclaimed by the Associated Press as “quite simply, a phenomenon.”
MAMMA MIA! plays 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 $62.75 -$121.50 (including a $1.50 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
www.mamma-mia.comFor more information about MAMMA MIA! around the world:
www.mamma-mia.com
