MAMMA MIA!
“MY FOX NEW YORK NEWS” SEGMENT
BROADWAY’S SMASH HIT MUSICAL JOINS
“BROADWAY WALL OF FAME”
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MAMMA MIA! joined Tony’s DiNapoli’s “Broadway Wall of Fame” on March 25th, 2009 at the Times Square eatery. “My Fox New York” reporter Shani Petroff was on the scene to capture the excitement, and speak to the Broadway stars of the musical now in its 8th hit year at the Winter Garden Theatre and celebrating over 3,000 performances.
The portrait unveiling ceremony and party was hosted by restaurateur Bruce Dimpflmaier and emceed by media personality Valerie Smaldone. Prints made from the original oil painting by Dan May will be autographed by the cast and auctioned to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
MAMMA MIA! joined a gallery of portraits honoring other hit Broadway musicals including Jersey Boys, Spring Awakening and Wicked as well as Broadway stars Daniel Radcliffe (Equus); Hugh Jackman (The Boy From Oz); Harry Connick; Jr. (The Pajama Game) and Antonio Banderas and Chita Rivera (Nine).
MAMMA MIA! stars two-time Tony Award® nominee Carolee Carmello (Donna Sheridan), Judy McLane (Tanya), Gina Ferrall (Rosie), Brandi Burkhardt (Sophie Sheridan), Chris Peluso (Sky), Sean Allan Krill (Sam Carmichael), Pearce Bunting (Bill Austin) and Ben Livingston (Harry Bright) and a company of 25 of Broadway’s best.
Seen by more than 32 million people around the world, MAMMA MIA!, is celebrating 7 smash hit years and over 3,000 performances at the Winter Garden Theatre (1535 Broadway), and is playing a record-breaking U.S. tour. The original West End production has played nearly 4,000 performances, an international tour has played in more than 40 foreign cities, and the blockbuster feature film adaptation of MAMMA MIA!, produced by Judy Craymer and Gary Goetzman, is the most successful movie musical of all time and continues to smash box office records around the world.
With a worldwide gross of over $2 Billion, MAMMA MIA! is acclaimed by the Associated Press as “quite simply, a phenomenon.”
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