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Calling All Dancing Queens: Houston Symphony Presents The Music Of ABBA [UPDATED]

By Sam Byrd
Jun 14, 2024

Take a chance on the Houston Symphony this weekend as it presents The Music of ABBA. Audiences will be able to dance, jive and have the time of their life as the orchestra plays all the favorites of the pop supergroup along with guest performers Rajaton. The concert takes place Saturday at the Hobby Center.
Dance, Jive, Have The Time Of Your Life With The Music Of ABBA

By Sam Byrd
Oct 2, 2018

Dance, jive and have the time of your life as the Houston Symphony presents "The Music of Abba" Oct. 5 - 7 at Jones Hall.
5 Bands That Thankfully Still Aren't Getting Back Together

By Corey Deiterman
Oct 12, 2012

With all the bands reuniting these days, it's hard to say anything is forever in the world of music. Bands are even getting smart and putting themselves on "indefinite hiatus" rather than actually "breaking up." See, they're just going away for a while. A "break up" would be too much...
Musical "Holograms" We Don't Want To See Anytime Soon (OK, Yes We Do)

By Craig Hlavaty
Apr 18, 2012

A lot has been made about the Tupac "hologram" at Coachella. First off, it's not really a hologram as much as it is CGI "magic" and it's nothing new, seeing that they have been doing it Japan for a few years now. But they do lots of things in Japan...
Decoding Newt Gingrich Based on His Known Musical Tastes

By Jef Rouner
Feb 2, 2012

The digital revolution is slowly killing our favorite form of amateur psychoanalysis. We've all gone through someone's CD collection at some point when they weren't in the room, and from the albums we found we were able to deduce something about their personality. Now, we don't even have a CD...
Mamma Mia! 10 Amazing Facts About ABBA

By Craig Hlavaty
Sep 9, 2011

Yeah, we know. The last few weeks, all of these facts blogs have been on cool, big-balled rock bands like the Doors, Queen, KISS and Led Zeppelin - your basic meat-and-potatos groups you get into from listening to too much classic-rock radio with your parents. But this week, we dive...
KMAG, These Are Our Favorite Four-Letter Bands

By Craig Hlavaty
Jul 28, 2011

The other day while we were tooling around with a collection of music we had inherited from some family members that had passed away, we realized that of all the compact discs that we had in the box, the Miles Davis, the Ravi Shankar box set, the Thelonious Monk, the...
Mamma Mia!

By Lee Williams
May 12, 2011

Get your platform boots out of the closet — Mamma Mia! is back in town for one all-too-brief week. The charming bit of musical fluff is a love story set on a beautiful Greek island where the young Sophie Sheridan lives with her single mom. Sophie’s about to get married,...
(Not The) Royal Wedding Playlist

By Pete Vonder Haar
Apr 27, 2011

Planning a wedding is a real pain in the ass. Rocks Off knows, because we (and our fiancée) were forced by geographic and financial issues to do 99 percent of the legwork for our own nuptials. There's the usual stuff like reception location, whether you're going to make up your...
Mamma Mia! drains the fun out of ABBA

Thank you for the music, but your movie's kinda drab.

By Ella Taylor
Jul 16, 2008

I've always enjoyed ABBA — not in that post-hoc, so-bad-it's good hip way, but innocently, the way I like Phil Spector. To this day, howling along in my car to that echoing, cascading, multiply overdubbed wall of sound makes me feel like a member of some dippy but joyous cathedral...
Mamma Mia!

You can dance, you can jive, you can…you get the picture

By Lee Williams
Sep 20, 2007

Dust off your dancing platform shoes. The ‘70s are back with Catherine Johnson’s hugely successful Mamma Mia! The Broadway mega-hit, coming to Houston via Broadway Across America, weaves a story about a single mom with a wild past around the popular tunes created by ABBA, the pop icons from Sweden...
The Rosebuds

Night of the Furies

By Michael D. Ayers
Apr 5, 2007

Remember New Order? Well, apparently Raleigh's The Rosebuds is trying to channel them. This happens to be a huge departure from the stereotypical indie-guitar pop-rock The Rosebuds have released over the past few years, so you can't say they aren't trying something new. The problem is, the electro-synth pop sound...
Our top DVD picks for the week of October 25

Oct 27, 2005

ABBA: The Movie (Universal) AC/DC: And Then There Was Rock (Chrome Dreams) Alias: The Complete Fourth Season (Buena Vista) Audioslave: Live in Cuba (Sony) The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Wellspring) Bewitched (Columbia/Tristar) The Day of the Triffids (Pro-Active) Dominion: A Prequel to the Exorcist (Warner) Face (Image) Herbie: Fully...
ABBA-cadabra

See that girl, watch that scene: Mamma Mia! conjures up some disco magic

By Steven Devadanam
Mar 17, 2005

Let's come out and say it: Musical theater can be really goofy. It is, after all, a genre in which individuals -- regardless of situation -- will abruptly break out in song at any given moment. But the charming, tongue-in-cheek Mamma Mia! revels in the goofiness with its raucous ABBA...
An ABBA to Zebra of Guilty Pleasures

Music figures tell all abou their most shameful faves

By John Nova Lomax
Oct 21, 2004

Guilty pleasures. Everybody's got 'em -- those jams you only crank when you're home alone, those tunes you turn up on the car radio only after you've made sure the windows are rolled up tight, those CDs you hide at the bottom of a drawer or the back of a...
Everybody Loves ABBA

At least that's what the makers of Mamma Mia! are counting on

By Lee Williams
Apr 24, 2003

Through April 27 at the Hobby Center, 800 Bagby, 713-629-3700. $37.25-$77.25.
The Trip to Bountiful
Through May 10 at the Alley Theatre, 615 Texas Avenue, 713-228-9341. $35-$50.
Into the Line of Fire

Swede Lasse Hallström steps into America's abortion controversy with The Cider House Rules

By Joe Leydon
Dec 2, 1999

Lasse Hallstrom chuckles heartily as the skeleton tumbles out of his closet. Yes, he admits without a trace of shame, he helped to launch the global superstardom of ABBA, the disco darlings from his native Sweden. He directed many of the band's most infamous music videos, including "S.O.S." and "Dancing...

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