Pop goes the musical: musical theatre finally turns on to the tunes everybody in the world has been listening to for years.
American Theatre, March, 2003 by Istel, John
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THOUGHT THAT, AS WE STEAM INTO THE 21st century, we'd have Abba to thank for rejuvenating the American musical theatre?
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Whatever you think--or adore or despise--about Mamma Mia!, give this Broadway phenomenon credit. It has given musical-theatre artists and producers a creative roadmap into rarified territory: mainstream American culture. Thirty years from now, don't be surprised if Mamma Mia!, with its score fashioned from 1970s and early '80s pop songs by the Swedish songwriting team of Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, receives its due for putting the "pop"--as in ...
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