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Here at Harvard, people gather for delicious treats like crispbread and gingersnaps while partaking in hearty conversation in Swedish, Norwegian and other Scandinavian tongues. All the while, guests ears are greeted by Scandinavian sounds, made internationally famous by the pop geniuses behind ABBA...
...ever a show were designed to make Broadway forget its troubles, it is Mamma Mia! The frothy musical, built around the songs of the hugely popular (and critically patronized) '70s Swedish rock group Abba, was created to bring happiness wherever it goes--and so far it has. The show has been a sellout in London since it opened there 2 1/2 years ago, and it has broken box-office records almost everywhere else it has played, including Toronto, Los Angeles and Boston. Despite the hard times, Mamma Mia! opened last week on Broadway with a $27 million advance sale, reportedly...
Last Thursday someone threw stone after stone through the windshields of cabs in Manhattan's Central Park, apparently targeting dark-skinned drivers. "A lot of cabdrivers are not driving," says Ali Agha Abba, a Pakistani-American taxi driver in New York City. "I can't afford to not work. So I have to take a chance." Last Monday a man drove a Mustang through the front entrance of the Grand Mosque in Parma, Ohio, the largest in the state. The Sunday before, a Muslim woman in Memphis was beaten on her way to worship. The day before that, a Pakistani...
...ABBA will survive the ban, but Afghan musicians fear some forms of music are threatened with extinction. The archives of traditional Afghan folk songs at Kabul Radio, for example, are being destroyed. The sounds of silence, after all, are more reassuring to many governments than voices that have the power to move, to persuade and to protest. In the Sudan, musicians cannot perform after dark; in a Nigerian state where Islamic law is followed, a musician was recently imprisoned for singing. "In much of the Third World, people cannot read or write," says Marie Korpe, executive director of Freemuse...
...Shalt Not is just one in a jam-packed lineup of musicals scheduled for Broadway this fall. Among them: Thoroughly Modern Millie, based on the 1967 movie; the Broadway debut of Stephen Sondheim's 1991 musical Assassins; and the New York City arrival of the show that has made Abba fans the world over scream with delight, Mamma Mia! No telling what we'll get from Connick and Stroman, but one thing is for sure: it won't be Dancing Queen. (Opens...