When a producer approached them desiring to turn their songs into a stage musical, ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson were reportedly unenthused. But one might think their enthusiasm levels have ...
Judy Craymer came up with the idea of using Abba songs in a musical — and won the band's permission. "Mamma Mia!" has been playing in London for 25 years and ran on Broadway for 14 years. The musical ...
Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, we revisit 1977’s ABBA: The Movie, the iconic band’s lesser known “mockumentary” tour movie. For almost fifty ...
It's really no surprise that the hit music of ABBA was transferred into the backbone of a massively popular musical. The candy-coated, spot-on vocals, emotive lyrics and flowery orchestration of the ...
When producer Judy Craymer persuaded ABBA to allow her to make a musical out of their back catalogue, she never imagined the show would still be running twenty-five years later – not to mention spawn ...
In 1999, it launched at London’s West End as a groundbreaking ABBA jukebox musical before earning five Tony Award nominations on Broadway and becoming a blockbuster movie musical starring Meryl Streep ...
Mamma Mia, here we go again: The third film in the beloved series based around ABBA songs is currently in development, and producer Judy Craymer tells Deadline that Sabrina Carpenter is being ...
"Mamma Mia!" is back on Broadway, and fans can celebrate with the fun Mamma Mia Experience at the Hyatt Regency Times Square.
Amanda Seyfried has opened up about the possibility of a third Mamma Mia movie, saying that there has been "talk" of a new movie to complete the musical trilogy. Seyfried starred in the first two ...
EXCLUSIVE: Judy Craymer would just love it if Barbie filmmaker Greta Gerwig could just make herself available to complete the Mamma Mia! movie trilogy. “Hey, Greta, if you’re free to do anymore ...