This week was a big week for Mamma Mia! both on stage and in film. The weekly gross for the musical clocked in at $1,007,600. As previously reported, the movie set records for its box office opening with a grand total now up to $27,781,000. Now, the Mamma Mia! Movie Soundtrack is number all the the world.
The Broadway production of
Benny Andersson and
Bjorn Ulvaeus' global smash hit musical MAMMA MIA!, returned to the Million Dollar Club last week grossing $1,007,600 for 8 performances ending July 20th.
This past weekend, having set records in many markets around the world, the MAMMA MIA! movie opened in the United States to the best weekend ever for a movie musical grossing $27.8 million.
The soundtrack to the film is #1 on UK and Australian sales charts and last week entered the US Billboard 200 in the #7 position.
Seen on stage by over 30 million people around the world, MAMMA MIA!, is celebrating more than 6 years on Broadway and is currently playing record-breaking engagements in Las Vegas and on National Tour in the United States.
There are currently 10 productions of MAMMA MIA! running around the world (8 resident productions and 2 tours). With a worldwide gross of over $2 Billion, MAMMA MIA! is acclaimed by the Associated Press as "quite simply, a phenomenon."
Produced by Judy Craymer, Richard East and Björn 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 Björn Ulvaeus, MAMMA MIA! is written by
Catherine Johnson and directed 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.
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