Word: abba
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...toward Spamalot's Las Vegas run, but part of the deal is that the show will tour elsewhere. "After Avenue Q, we all became a little smarter," Halloran explains. In the best of all worlds, a hot Las Vegas run spills over into good buzz for touring shows. The Abba tribute Mamma Mia!, for example, rakes in the "Money, money, money" and has tripled its investment in three years. Its success feeds audiences elsewhere...
...working behind the camera, controlling the next generation of the music industry.” Up next for Shields is a Making The Band-esque reality show called Fourplay in which he will weed out hopeful Harvard auditioners seeking to join him in a dance pop “Abba-style” band. “Harvard needs a little more bubblegum-pop fun,” he says. Shields says his celebrity didn’t affect his transition to college life, but he admits he suspects some of his “friends” have ulterior...
...Likud, and today it is Hamas. The Palestinian people have never been more in need of moderate leadership than today and, yet, they chose extremists to lead their way. Some might argue that Palestinians had, as usual, chosen the wrong side at every turn in history; as Abba Ebban, former Israeli Foreign Minister, liked to describe Palestinians: “they never miss a chance to miss a chance.”I too am unhappy by the choice my people made; my fear is mostly centered on domestic issues: civil liberties and individual rights and the maintenance...
...epiphonic seizure. He helps Madge narrow her creative focus to dance the night away. The disc is an amalgamation of the past 30 years in dance music. The jump-out-of-your-seat first single, “Hung Up,” which borrows its unshakable hook from ABBA, is one of the great dance tracks of the year. “Let It Will Be” features sweeping symphonies and a thumping bass a la “Die Another Day”; synth-heavy “Forbidden Love” recalls Cher?...
...choosing from among three options: a pastiche of tunes (as in Smokey Joe's Cafe from the Mike Leiber-Jerry Stoller songbook, the Billy Joel Movin' Out or Swingin' On a Star from lyricist Jimmy McHugh); a new book that finds slots for the songs (as in the ABBA Mamma Mia!, the Elvis All Shook Up or the Gershwin's My One and Only and Crazy for You); or a bio-musical of the artist (the Buddy Holly tribute Buddy or Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave...