MAMMA MIA! played to sold out audiences and set new box office records during its previous engagement at the National Theatre.

More than ten million people around the world have seen this heartwarming tale of a mother who confronts her past when three men return to the Greek island they've not visited for 21 years, just as her 20 year old daughter is about to be married. ABBA's timeless, story-telling songs propel this tale of love laughter and friendship. Productions of MAMMA MIA! are currently playing in London's West End, Toronto, Las Vegas, Australia and on two U.S. National Tours. Foreign language productions are playing in Hamburg, Germany and Tokyo, Japan. More than 15,000 people see MAMMA MIA! each night somewhere in the world.

Jeanine Morick (Broadway's Tommy, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) is featured as Donna Sheridan, an independent single mother who runs a taverna on a mythical Greed island. donna's best friends, Rosie and Tanya, are played by Rosalyn Rahn Kerias and Cynthia Sophiea (respectively), who reunite on the island on the eve of the wedding of Donna's daughter, Sophie, played by Chilina Kennedy.

The cast also features; Gary P. Lynch (Sam Carmicheal), Craig Bennet (Bill Austin), Michael DeVries (Harry Bright), PJ Griffith (Sky), Karen Burthwright (Lisa), Emy Baysic (Ali), Phillip Nero (Pepper) and Joe Paperella (eddie).

"The consensus choice for best musical! --T.R. Reid, The Washington Post

"Terrific fun!" -- New York Times

"Fabulous, funny, and endlessly clever, it brilliantly weaves those familiar ABBA songs into the plot. YOU"LL LOVE IT!" -- New York Post

"A genuinely original, comic and touching book allied to some of the GREATEST AND MOST THEATRICAL POP SONGS EVER WRITTEN! --International Herald Tribune

"A GUILTY PLEASURE! AUDIENCES LOVE IT! When MAMMA MIA! reaches its thunderous, candy-colored finale EVERYONE JOINS THE PARTY!" --San Francisco Chronicle

"One can hear the roar all the way from London, THE WORD IS OUT -- MAMMA MIA! IS A SMASH HIT!" -- Liz Smith, Syndicated Columnist

MAMMA MIA! ~ It's ABBA's greatest hits woven into three wonderful love stories: a young girl about to be married; her mother about to confront the past; and the best love story of all -- the audience about to jump out of their seats with joy!

A smash sold-out hit in London, New York, and in cities throughout the world,
MAMMA MIA! features 22 of ABBA's best-known songs, including:
Dancing Queen ~ the Winner Takes It All ~ S.O.S. ~ Knowing Me, Knowing You
Take a Chance on Me ~ I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do ~ The Name of the Game
Money, Money, Money ~ Super Trouper ~ and, of course, Mamma Mia!

Produced by Judy Craymer,Richard East and Bjorn 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 Bjorn Ulvaeus, MAMMA MIA!, a book by Catherine Johnson and direction 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.

The original cast recording of MAMMA MIA! is available on Decca Broadway.

Photos © Joan Marcus (North America) and © Catherine Ashmore (London) are from previous companies of Mamma Mia! and do not necessarily picture the performers in the touring company at the National Theatre.