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Welcome<br />
It is with the utmost pleasure that I welcome you to the glorious Novello<br />
Theatre and to the all-singing, all-dancing, record-breaking MAMMA MIA!,<br />
which has been raising the roof for over 18 years and 7,000 performances.<br />
Audiences across the world have said ‘Thank You For The Music’ and<br />
fallen under the spell of this funny, heart-warming show, based on the<br />
terrific songs of ABBA, composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus,<br />
and Stig Anderson.<br />
At our other theatres, Les Misérables is unbelievably still storming<br />
the barricades in its world record-breaking 32nd year at the Queen’s.<br />
Disney’s Broadway smash hit Aladdin brings to magical theatrical life this<br />
spectacular timeless story at the Prince Edward and is a real treat for all<br />
ages to enjoy, and the smash-hit musical comedy The Book of Mormon<br />
pursues its wonderfully irreverent sell-out run at the Prince of Wales. At<br />
the Gielgud Theatre, bookings are extremely busy for Jez Butterworth’s<br />
highly anticipated, smash-hit new play The Ferryman, directed by Sam<br />
Mendes, which recently transferred from the Royal Court where it sold<br />
out in a day and received an array of five-star reviews. At the Noël Coward<br />
Theatre, I am very happy that the acclaimed joyous production of Half<br />
A Sixpence, with its terrific new award-winning star Charlie Stemp as<br />
Arthur Kipps and a knockout company, is bringing audiences to their feet<br />
at every performance with its irresistible Flash, Bang, Wallop! The show’s<br />
run has now been extended to 2nd September after which we are proud<br />
to present the world premiere of James Graham’s new comedy Labour of<br />
Love with the exceptional Martin Freeman and Sarah Lancashire. Across<br />
the courtyard at Wyndham’s Theatre, for a limited season, we are being<br />
treated to the legendary, multi award-winning Broadway star Audra<br />
McDonald portraying the life story of the equally legendary Billie Holiday<br />
in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. This will be followed in October<br />
by Simon Stephens’ surprising and life-affirming new play Heisenberg: The<br />
Uncertainty Principle, starring Anne-Marie Duff and Kenneth Cranham –<br />
who won the Best Actor Olivier Award for his performance in The Father,<br />
also at Wyndham’s – and directed by Marianne Elliott, who is currently<br />
wowing audiences with her astonishing production of Angels In America at<br />
the National. This marks Simon’s return to the West End following his huge<br />
international success with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-<br />
Time, which recently finished its three-year London run. At the beautiful<br />
Victoria Palace Theatre, a late masterpiece of renowned theatre architect<br />
Frank Matcham, a major renovation and rebuild is well underway and the<br />
theatre will reopen in November 20<strong>17</strong> with the phenomenally successful<br />
Tony® Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning American musical Hamilton. All<br />
seats currently available for the first booking period up to the end of<br />
June 2018 have sold out but more seats for this period will hopefully be<br />
released in the early autumn when the building works reach completion.<br />
I wish you a thoroughly entertaining evening at MAMMA MIA! and<br />
look forward to welcoming you back to our other Delfont Mackintosh<br />
theatres soon.<br />
Cameron Mackintosh<br />
Chairman, Delfont Mackintosh Theatres
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