The jukebox musical uses nearly two dozen ABBA tunes to tell the story of a young woman named Sophie (Amy Weaver), who was raised by her headstrong single mother Donna (Christine Sherrill) on a ...

I have a theory about the music of ABBA (it’s just my experience, but maybe it’s yours too). Their songs, composed and produced by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and sung by Agnetha Fältskog and ...

That counts Mamma Mia!, a film adaptation of the 2001 stage musical built around ABBA music, but not its Cher-featuring sequel Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, on the grounds that the latter was really ...

Set on a Greek island paradise, MAMMA MIA! is a story of love, friendship and identity, which is cleverly revealed through ...

Maybe you first heard “Dancing Queen,” “Waterloo” and “Mamma Mia” during the 1970s, when the Swedish pop group ABBA was touring the world. Or maybe you’ve heard the group’s music more recently, as ...

ABBA‘s Björn Ulvaeus is proving that curiosity doesn’t diminish with age. At 80, the Swedish songwriter behind some of pop music’s most enduring hits is pioneering a new frontier in musical theater: ...

You might surmise that both Wicked and Mamma Mia! must have won the Tony for best musical when they played on Broadway. Actually, neither one did. Wicked lost to Avenue Q in 2004. Mamma Mia! lost to ...