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 ...

A little Abba can make any day better. True? Probably not. At least, not completely true. Though, the disco-inflected sounds of this long-defunct Swedish pop group usually don’t ruin a day. But the ...

The director, Phyllida Lloyd, has moved on to a movie about Margaret Thatcher, but the song stylings of ABBA will surely outlast the Iron Lady. And “Mamma Mia!”, the story of a girl with three ...

When the cast for “Mamma Mia!” began rehearsing in September, all 45 members were in “advanced stages of performance withdrawal.” That was how Marnie Werner humorously referred to how High Desert ...

A special reunion takes place this weekend as Countryside Community Theatre (CCT) returns to its former longtime home — North Scott High School Fine Arts Auditorium, 200 S. 1st St., Eldridge — for the ...

Timothy Blais, a master’s student at McGill University, turned his thesis on three-dimensional gravity into a cover of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Blais, who is a musician in his spare time, ...

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Gabriella Marchion's living the actor's life: audition, audition, audition. Most times, it's a no. But when it's a yes, oh, "Mamma Mia!" does it feel good. After living in Melbourne for a year and ...

A toned-down cartoon? Oh, mamma mia! With its silly story that fills time between the frothy greatest hits of Abba, Broadway smash “Mamma Mia!” has never been loved for its great dramatic depth. In my ...

You thought the Mamma Mia mania was over? Oh, sweetie. The musical is strutting back onto Broadway like she owns the street and honestly, she does. Beginning August 2, the Winter Garden Theatre ...

Dame Julie Walters is back playing Rosie in the sequel to 2008's Mamma Mia, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, but it turns out that - despite the original movie's HUGE box office success - she actually ...