Word: abba
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...famous? “We’re just a real fun place,” Alberts boasts. He gives an example: last Friday at the 2 a.m. closing time, all the women in the 150-person karaoke room stood on chairs and sang and danced to the ABBA song “Dancing Queen.” The song database is quite extensive, with about 5000 songs—many in Spanish—and new hits added weekly. Parties larger than four can and should make reservations...
BROADWAY HAS ALREADY mined the songs of old rockers like Abba and Billy Joel for new musicals. The Four Seasons, above, are being re-created in Jersey Boys, below, opening next month in La Jolla, Calif. But they're just warmup acts for the next round of rock musicals. --By Richard Zoglin
...dramatically confused. This is a disappointment not just for Lloyd Webber fans but for theaterland as a whole. These are tricky times for musical theater: the genre seems unable to produce successful new material, and depends too much on yesterday's tunes - shows based on old pop songs (by Abba, Queen, Rod Stewart), old movies (The Producers) and old faithfuls (Mary Poppins). If it turns out that Lloyd Webber - the man who had us singing about cats, trains, even Jesus - is unable to deliver a new hit, then who can? The industry was certainly banking on Woman...
...Quad-River rivalry—feeling that the River’s patent superiority spoke for itself—but I have been studying in Hilles Library lately. This is the sort of peculiar habit you admit to with an abashed smile, like an affection for listening to ABBA records while binging on Sun Chips and Fresca. In a nostalgic age, it is the rare indulgence that is passé without having quite acquired the mass following to be retro...
...slipshod scholarship,” “blackmail,” and “profiteering” against some of the world’s most distinguished professors and writers, including Stuart Eizenstadt, Burt Neuborne, Gerald Feldman, Sir Martin Gilbert, Richard Overy, Abba Eban, Yehuda Bauer, Daniel Goldhagen and others. (Goldhagen demonstrated that Finkelstein “fabricated” charges against him, as he did with Wiesel and that “he has no credibility.” Frankfurter Rundschau, Aug. 18, 1987, cited on www.goldhagen.com...