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‘Muriel’s Wedding The Musical’ is destined to be a global hit. This all-Australian production, based on the book by PJ Hogan, directed by Simon Phillips and with new music from Kate Miller-Heidke & Kier Nuttal, will be a great fit for Broadway or the West End one day. Right now, Melbourne is privileged to host the Australian premiere of the national tour of Muriel’s Wedding The Musical.

SXSW slipped a quiet one into their speakers schedule. Bjorn Ulvaeus from Abba will be a guest speaker at the SXSW music conference in Austin, Texas this month.

Kate Miller-Heidke will perform for Australia in Israel at Eurovision 2019.

Muriel’s Wedding The Musical is on its way to Melbourne.

The first new Abba songs in over three decades have been delayed and no-one knows when they are coming out now.

Cher has made a startling observation about Abba suggesting that Benny Anderson used Anna-Frida and Agnetha as instruments in the group.

Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus will bring his themed restaurant Mamma Mia The Party experience to London in 2019.

The sequel-prequel film soundtrack for “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” remains the top selling album in Australia for a second week (and also again at the top in N.Z. and the U.K.).

Exactly ten years after the initial explosion for the soundtrack for “Mamma Mia!” (21st July, 2008 for 5 weeks) the follow-up collection of ABBA songs for the sequel/prequel movie “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” climbs to the top of the ARIA Albums Chart.

Cher has almost completed her Abba covers album and has alerted fans to all but one of the songs on the record.

Pierce Brosnan says he is literally “gobsmacked” that a painting he created featuring a likeness of Bob Dylan has sold for $1.4 million.

Some musicals should be seen for the story, some for the cast, some for the music. You need to see ‘Mamma Mia’ just for a good time.

A new lyric video of ‘When I Kissed The Teacher’ from the Mamma Mia 2 movie Mamma Mia Here We Go Again features Bjorn from ABBA.

The news of the ABBA reunion has send fans streaming their old hits.

ABBA’s manager has insisted the Swedish pop group will not be performing at Glastonbury Festival.

Abba have reformed. It’s official. The classic Swedish pop band of the 70s have recorded two new songs for the joint BBC and NBC TV special to air in December.

Agnetha Fältskog, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA are working together to be turned into ‘Abbatars’ for a tribute show being jointing produced by the BBC and NBC.

William Shatner, Henry Winkler, George Foreman, Jeff Dye and Terry Bradshaw were greeted by Bjorn from Abba on a new episode of Better Later Than Never, their travel show.

Pop icons ABBA are heading back to the stage for their first tour in three decades – to perform as holograms.

Mamma Mia! was a worldwide hit both in the theater and on film. Just in the United States, the movie took in $144 million and is number 6 on the list of all-time live action movie musicals while, throughout the world, it took in $600 million.

ABBA: four letters; four unique talents. Collectively, Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad are known for creating some of the most vital pop music in the world; individually, however, they were just as creative.

Mamma Mia the musical will return to Australian stages in November.

Frida from Abba did the spoken word part of Adam & The Ants ‘Strip’ but she couldn’t be credited.

ABBA has plans to return but the form is a bit of a mystery.

The four members of ABBA were together at Berns Salonger in Stockholm this week and performed together for the first time since 1986.

Tribute bands from The Beatles, Elton John, Queen, Spice Girls and Abba will gather for Tribute Mania, a festival of covers bands.

The four members of Abba, Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältskog and Bjorn Ulvaeus were together again on Wednesday for the opening of Bjorn’s new business venture.

Leading peacebuilding charity International Alert is delighted to announce the worldwide release of Peace Tracks, a global collaborative music project that brings together celebrated recording artists with musicians from around the world.