The Orion Theatre, Stockholm’s largest avant-garde stage was formed in 1983, and is one of Sweden’s most interesting and innovative theatres. When the theatre next year celebrates its 30th year, it does so by producing a new musical written by Benny Andersson, Kristina Lugn and Lars Rudolfsson.
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Kristina från Duvemåla opens in Helsinki
Wednesday 29 February, saw Kristina från Duvemåla finally emigrate beyond the shores of Sweden in theatrical, rather than concert form. Not to the hallowed pavements of Broadway or London’s West End but to a small theatre in Helsinki, Finland which features works in Swedish by Swedish creatives.
I Know Him So Well among top selling duets of all time
The Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson classic, from the concept album of CHESS by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Tim Rice is the seventh best selling duet recording of all time in the UK according to the Official Charts Company.
Björn and Agnetha attend Mamma Mia! Copenhagen première (Updated with new picture)
Together. In public. Arm in arm. Björn and Agnetha. We thought it might never happen again BUT see below for some amazing footage from the Danish première of Mamma Mia!. This article has now been updated with details of an article by Expressen who spoke to Björn and Agnetha. This is the entirety of the [...]
Benny at Stadtsteatern’s 50th anniversary
Benny attended the event at the Stadsteatern on 21 October and gave a short interview. The anniversary celebration coincided with the opening of a new play called Aniara, which stars Helen Sjöholm and is directed by Lars Rudolfsson. As you can see from the picture, Helen takes on a very different look from the one [...]
Frida and Agnetha attending Mamma Mia!
A delve back into my video archives, uncovers these two clips I was fortunate to take – segued together here for the first time.
Mamma Mia! celebrates 8 years on Broadway
Mamma Mia! is now the 13th longest-running show in Broadway history, having surpassed the record breaking runs of legendary musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof, Hello, Dolly!, Annie, My Fair Lady and the original run of Cabaret. Isn’t that an absolutely wonderful achievement?
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Benny seeks to help Stockholm’s Royal College of Music
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Benny and Björn appear in BBC Agnetha documentary
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Helsinki says farewell and thank you to ‘Kristina’
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‘ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits’ becomes the UK’s second biggest selling album of all time
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‘We Write the Story’ unveiled
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Win an ABBA The Museum brochure signed by Benny, Björn and Frida!
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ABBA The Museum is open! (Updated with Photo Gallery)
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New Björn interview: “Don’t ask me what my favourite ABBA song is!”
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Win an ABBA The Museum brochure signed by Benny, Björn and Frida!
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Agnetha Fältskog is recording new material (Updated)
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The “definitive” version of CHESS to premiere at London’s Union Theatre
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BAO boxset on the way, 6 CDs and 2 DVDs included (Updated)
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‘We Write the Story’ unveiled
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‘En skrift i snön’ broadcast in full, now also with link to Dancing Queen and full show
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Björn Ulvaeus: “The story of Jesus is just a myth to me…”
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Björn Ulvaeus reflects on the loss of Hansi Schwarz
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Ice: Sorry to read that Vera but as the article states: "If you can access BBC’s iPlayer ser...
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vera: Hey there I´d love to see that documentary aswell, but as I am from Germany the link does...
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Tracy Aitken: Where was Anni-Frid?...
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Adam: Hej gamla man - here is the song: http://youtu.be/JVQWo6g-dRQ...
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Anne: Randy – the track Björn refers to in this quote is 'Hej gamle man', which became a hit for...
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Randy: Thanks Ice - this is great to see since we can't see it here in the US :( I have a questi...
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maria virginia consuelo - ricafranca: I am a Filipino and am an avid ABBA fan. I was a high school freshman during the Dancing...
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Neil Gosney: I agree totally with Adam and Alistair Thomas about the performance - and about Helsinki i...