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Are ABBA about to release a new album?
Iconic band tease new material — but don't expect them to perform again

EMMA POWELL
Tuesday 2 October 2018 11:37




ABBA co-founder Björn Ulvaeus has hinted that the band could release a new album — 37 years after the release of their last, The Visitors.

The news comes as the Swedish group prepare to release their first songs in decades.

Speaking to A List he said: “A new album, possibly. Or four songs or something like that — that’s possible. But for us to perform on stage that’s just not going to happen. That’s a definite.”

Ulvaeus, 73, recently reunited with bandmates Agnetha Fältskog, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad to write and record new songs, one of which, I Still Have Faith In You, will debut on the BBC in December.

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Reunited: Bjorn Ulvaeus, Agnetha Faltskog, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Rex)
He said returning to the recording studio was a “wonderful” experience. “When we were all four in the studio that was amazing because we hadn’t been in a studio situation since the beginning of the Eighties,” he said. “We were standing there in these familiar surroundings and we looked at each other and it took 15 seconds and we were back.”

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The foursome, who won the Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo in 1974, sold 400 million singles and albums worldwide before their split in 1983.


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Ulvaeus said London was “so incredibly important” to their success and is now launching Mamma Mia! The Party in the capital. The immersive theatrical and dining experience will see the O2 transformed into a Greek taverna as actors perform a spin-off story from the hit musical and film, which has been adapted by comedian Sandi Toksvig, who said she has made a “friend for life” in Ulvaeus.

Asked if the band will make an appearance when the experience launches next summer, he said: “All four of us love London, so who knows.”

https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/is-abba-about-to-release-a-new-album-a3951151.html

Immersive Mamma Mia! The Party musical to be adapted by Sandi Toksvig

I saw it in ABBA Latinoamerica.. Thanks Nina Rios..

Immersive Mamma Mia! The Party musical to be adapted by Sandi Toksvig
The Bake Off presenter will pen the story for the piece
AuthorAlex WoodLocationsLondon28 September 2018






Bake Off and QI presenter, writer and comedian Sandi Toksvig will adapt the book for the brand new immersive Abba dining experience at the O2.

Mamma Mia! The Party is set on a Greek island, where guests are treated to a meal while the show unfurls around them, before culminating in a big 1970s disco.

Toksvig said: "This has been a dream job – writing this adaptation mainly because I want to go to it myself and I got to hang out with the legend that is Björn."

The piece has music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (some songs with Stig Anderson), and a story by Calle Norlén, Roine Söderlundh and Björn Ulvaeus. It will be directed by Roine Söderlundh, with set design by Bengt Fröderberg, costumes design by Annsofi Nyberg, lighting design by Patrick Woodroffe and sound design by Gareth Owen.

The piece, which begins previews on 29 August 2019, is booking until 18 November 2019 with tickets going on sale next Tuesday at 9am.

https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/sandi-toksvig-abba-mamma-mia-o2_47697.html


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Sandi Toksvig to adapt Mamma Mia! spin-off show for London audience



Mamma Mia! The Party – pictured in Stockholm – will come to London next year, adapted by Sandi Toksvig. Photo: Dewynters

Newsby Georgia Snow - Sep 28, 2018
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Sandi Toksvig will adapt the story for the Mamma Mia! spin-off show when it opens at the O2 in London next year.

The writer and broadcaster will adapt Calle Norlen, Roine Soderlundh and Bjorn Ulvaeus’ original story into English for the immersive theatrical and dining experience, Mamma Mia! The Party.

The show has been running in Stockholm since 2016.

Set in a Greek taverna, Mamma Mia! The Party will take place in a venue within the O2 which is being adapted by Steve Tompkins of Haworth Tompkins.

It will seat 500 audience members, who will experience the show alongside a Mediterranean meal.

The show has been created by Abba’s Ulvaeus, with producer Ingrid Sutej, and features music and lyrics by Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson.

Toksvig said of her involvement: “This has been a dream job – writing this adaptation mainly because I want to go to it myself and I got to hang out with the legend that is Bjorn.”

Mamma Mia! The Party previews from August 29, 2019, and opens on September 19.

It will be directed by Soderlundh, with set by Bengt Froderberg, costumes by Annsofi Nyberg, lighting by Patrick Woodroffe and sound by Gareth Owen.


https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2018/sandi-toksvig-to-adapt-mamma-mia-spin-off-show-for-london-audience/