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 ...

Woven around ABBA’s biggest hits including “Dancing Queen ... when she was picked up for “Mamma Mia.” Sakolove, meanwhile, was in an earlier North American tour of "Mamma Mia" and part of the Royal ...

More than just a musical, “Mamma Mia!” provides the perfect excuse to get up and dance. The current touring production, playing at the Opera House through Oct. 6, doesn’t demand an allegiance to ABBA ...

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 ...

“Mamma Mia” established a high mark for jukebox musicals when it premiered on London’s West End in 1999. And 25 years later the show — at Detroit’s Fisher Theatre through Sunday, April 28 — it still ...

Who needs a song of the summer when we’ll always have Abba? Over 50 years after the Swedish pop group conquered Eurovision in 1974 with the white-flag-waving “Waterloo,” we couldn’t escape if we ...