"When there's a musical audition, I'm there and I'm just crossing my fingers, hoping I get something," she said.ĭonna, whether with her former singing partners, the potential dads, her daughter or others of the company, is central to many of the scenes and songs, including some best-loved hits such as "Dancing Queen," "SOS," the title song. "Coming back to theater after everything, and being away from it, especially here at Theatre Tuscaloosa, because it is like a family out here, coming back and seeing faces, and adding faces to our family, it's been really refreshing."Įrtle was recently paired with Logan in the comedy "Girls' Weekend," but she thrives on song, having studied musical theater at Mississippi College, and earned her master of fine arts in the same at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. "This whole show's about family, and about finding your family," he said. Logan has become a regular with the company, from "A Christmas Carol" through "Once Upon a Mattress," and most recently, to the door-slamming farce "Girls' Weekend." "The world needs like this injection of joy right now," Jones said, "and 'Mamma Mia!' is just fun it's not deep." Counting international tourings, more than 65 million people have seen the show live, amassing more than $4 billion in ticket sales. "Mamma Mia!" opened on Broadway in 2001 and ran 14 years, becoming the ninth-longest running Broadway show. The original London production opened in 1999, where it's the sixth-longest running show in West End history. The savvy ongoing marketing and repackaging that's kept ABBA golden soared to another pinnacle when producer Judy Craymer, having met the men while they were working with lyricist Tim Rice on musical "Chess," commissioned British playwright Johnson to craft a book around the songs. A new album, "Voyage," is due out in November.ĪBBA's songs have stayed alive long past the actual band's run, through oldies stations, tribute bands, prominent covers, and placement in movies such as "Muriel’s Wedding" and "Priscilla – Queen Of The Desert." Keeping ABBA golden
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All four came together again in 2018 to record new songs, and in May of this year, announced ABBA Voyage, a series of virtual concerts featuring a 10-piece live band performing with digitally-created avatars of the group as it appeared in its heyday. Though breaking up is never easy, we know, the band split in 1982, personally and professionally, though the men continue to write together, while the women have pursued solo singing careers. Worldwide, ABBA stands third in most singles sold - 11 million, from 25 Top 10 hits, including nine No. Its sales ran above 30 million, making it the 15th-best-selling disc of all time. Together as an acronymic unit, that quartet became Sweden's first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974, with the bouncy "Waterloo" - chosen as the competition's best song of its first 50 years, during a 2005 celebration - and danced on from that success, bursting through worldwide charts for the next decade.Įach of their discs sold platinum status or above, for an estimated 385 million worldwide, but it's the collection "ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits," released in 1992, that became ubiquitous, selling six times platinum in the U.S.
Many of their hits were written about, and chiefly sung by the two As, their respective former life partners, Anna-Frid Lyngstad, and Agnetha Fältskog. My sister had just brought me both from her garden, so it was an easy choice to make these puppies on Sunday instead of Monday as Mashup Mom had planned on this week's Aldi Meal Plan.The romantic comedy was crafted by British playwright Catherine Johnson, built around the songs of the Swedish pop phenomenon, most of them written by the B-males in the group, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. This week’s menu featured a few batches of chicken thighs - and one recipe in particular used tomatoes and green beans. Some of these recipes whip up so quickly and easily that I even think my husband can do them with very little direction. Now that I have a recipe for chicken thighs and veggies, it’s easy to improvise with seasonal veggies and whatever meat I have on hand. The best part about this meal plan is the flexibility. Combined, these two tricks lead to some pretty serious savings! BONUS: I don't have to get out of my car and into a grocery store unless I want to. One of my tried-and-true lifehacks is using WalMart Grocery Pickup. Remember when I spilled my little secret about The Mashup Mom? I love being able to help other moms with things I’ve picked up along the way. These carts are the reason I keep a quarter in my car at all times.
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