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Dateline: 1st August, 2007

Mamma Mia! publicity image

Mamma Mia! It's a Musical Milestone!

Mamma Mia!, the musical based on the hits of Abba, will reach two milestones this month. The musical, which has music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and book by Catherine Johnson, and is directed by Phyllida Lloyd with choreography by Anthony van Laast, will celebrate its 3,500th performance in the West End on 23rd August.

It opened at the Prince Edward on 23rd March, 1999, and transferred to the Prince of Wales in 2004 and on 18th August it will become the longest running show at that thatre, surpassing the previous record-holder, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspect of Love, which ran from 17th Apri,l 1989, to 20th June, 1992, a total of 1,325 performances.

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