In celebration of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' global hit musical Mamma Mia! playing five sold-out years on Broadway, the Mamma Mia! 5th Anniversary Special Edition CD with bonus CD recording will be released by Decca Broadway on Tuesday, October 17th, 2006. The fifth anniversary will also be marked by a special performance and celebration at the Cadillac Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway on Wednesday, October 18th at 7PM.
The CD/DVD will include music from the best-selling original cast album as well as three finale bonus audio tracks which are released in the U.S. for the first time including "Mamma Mia", "Dancing Queen" and "Waterloo" as well as a deluxe booklet featuring cast photos and a gallery of "Donna Sheridans" from around the world.
The bonus special edition DVD will also feature a behind the scenes documentary telling the story of
Mamma Mia! so far, hosted by original Broadway cast members
Joe Machota and
Tina Maddigan, who return to the Cadillac Winter Garden Theatre to reminisce about originating the roles of Sky and Sophie. The bonus feature also includes Broadway and West End opening night footage, interviews with
Mamma Mia! producer Judy Craymer, director Phyllida Lloyd, librettist Catherine Johnson and original ABBA band members
Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus.
In addition to ABBA concert clips and performance footage of different productions of
Mamma Mia! from around the world (in English, German, Dutch, Korean, Spanish and Flemish), two separate bonus features on the DVD include video clips of the West End cast performing "Money, Money, Money" and "Dancing Queen."
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! currently stars Leah Hocking (All Shook Up, Hairspray) as Donna, Olga Merediz (Reckless, Man of La Mancha) as Rosie, Judy McLane as Tanya and John Dossett as Sam, among others.
For more information and tickets, visit www.mamma-mia.com. Visit www.deccabroadway.com for more on the 5th anniversary Special Edition DVD.
