The Young Professionals - S.O.S.

The Advocate recaps:

The video for the duo's rendition, which sounds a lot sexier and slinkier than the bouncy original, features vintage footage of the Swedish quartet and premieres exclusively today with The Advocate. The duo explains they they were originally asked to cover the song for an Abba tribute album. "Having the opportunity to choose the song from all these amazing songs and being able to create a new production for it and make it our own was great experience," they tell The Advocate via email, adding, "Of course if we discuss "LGBT" music, ABBA is the corner stone of the genre."

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Mamma Mia To Close After 14 Years

Playbill reports:

The long-running Broadway production of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' international hit musical Mamma Mia!, which currently plays the Broadhurst Theatre, will close September 5, producers announced April 9. Mamma Mia! will have played 5,765 performances on Broadway, making it the eighth longest running show in Broadway history. It premiered Oct. 18, 2001, at the Winter Garden Theatre, where it continued through Oct. 19, 2013. The production then transferred to its current home, the Broadhurst Theatre, on Nov. 2, 2013. In its various productions the show has grossed a reported $2 billion worldwide. The hit musical had its London premiere April 6, 1999. It is now in its 16th year in the West End. It was adapted as a film in 2008 and grossed more than $144 million in the US alone, and currently holding the title of top-grossing musical film ever.

The makers of the movie are considering a sequel.

RELATED: Three of the five longest-running Broadway shows in history are still playing: Phantom Of The Opera at 27 years, Chicago at 19 years, and The Lion King at 18 years. (Cats and Les Miserables ran for 18 and 16 years respectively.) Also still playing: Wicked will hit 12 years in October and Jersey Boys hits the decade mark a week later.

BRITAIN: ABBA's Agnetha Sings In Public For The First Time In 25 Years

Contact Music reports:

ABBA star Agnetha Faltskog stunned fans by hitting the stage for a surprise performance at a London charity concert, marking her first high-profile gig in 25 years. The Swedish singer, who has reportedly not performed in front of an audience for more than two decades, was the surprise guest at Gary Barlow's Children In Need Rocks concert, which was held at the city's Eventim Apollo venue. Faltskog performed her duet with Barlow, I should've Followed You Home, to raise cash for the BBC's annual Children In Need charity event, which supports underprivileged kids around the world.

RELATED: Gary Barlow and fellow Take That member Robbie Williams also performed with Barry Manilow for his classic, Could It Be Magic.

ABBA: The Reunion?

Via Sky News:

Members of the legendary Swedish pop group Abba are considering a reunion to mark the 40th anniversary of the release of Waterloo, the band's first hit. Agnetha Faltskog, who formed Abba in 1972 with the guitarist and songwriter Bjorn Ulvaeus, told a German newspaper that it was one of the options being mulled by the group. "Of course it's something we're thinking about," 63-year-old Faltskog told the weekly Welt am Sonntag. "There seem to be plans to do something to mark this anniversary in some way. But I can't say at this point what will come of them." Waterloo propelled the group to Eurovision success in Brighton in 1974.

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ABBA Museum Opens In Sweden

Following the naming protocol of ABBA: The Movie and ABBA: The Concert, opening today in Stockholm is ABBA: The Museum.

Some 40 sets of the trademark shiny flares, platform boots and knitted hats are on display in the museum. But visitors can also see digital images of what they would look like in costumes, record music videos and sing such hits as "Dancing Queen" and "Mamma Mia" on a stage next to hologram images of the band members. A telephone also has been placed in a corner and ABBA members have promised to "Ring, Ring" and speak to visitors occasionally. The collection includes models of the band's kitchen, a cottage where they used to compose their songs and the small, rustic park venues Bjorn and Benny played when they first met in the 1960s. Visitors can listen to the band members' recollections and one section is dedicated to the breakup and the story of the divorces.

Can you hear the drums, Fernando?

Agnetha Fältskog - Really Loved Someone

#1 Thirty-Five Years Ago Today

Recorded in the summer of 1975, ABBA's only U.S. chart-topper didn't achieve its lone week at the summit until the spring of 1977. Dancing Queen's glory as ABBA's biggest and most enduring American hit was besmirched last year when it the media learned it was Newt Gingrich's ringtone. TRIVIA 1: Dancing Queen was written just months after ABBA won Eurovision 1974 for Sweden with Waterloo. TRIVIA 2: Among the many well-known acts that have lovingly (and often mockingly) performed Dancing Queen in concert: The Sex Pistols, U2, Bjork, Alanis Morrisette.

Newt Gingrich, Dancing Queen

SRSLY. That's his ringtone.

Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of the Karpel Group, today's swag booty is the newly remastered and reissued edition of ABBA's Gold: Greatest Hits, which is being released in a special CD+DVD package at retailers and online in North America today.

Mamma mia! ABBA has never sounded or looked better than on the new CD+DVD package ABBA Gold - Greatest Hits (Special Edition) (Polydor/Polar/UMe), released December 7, 2010. Featuring all of the group's hits and more--and the videos for each of them--this Special Edition package brings together 1992's six times platinum ABBA Gold - Greatest Hits CD and its gold-certified home video companion of the same title, both newly remastered.

The CD, which as a stand-alone album has sold more than 28 million copies worldwide, embraces 19 classics including the gold #1 anthem "Dancing Queen"; #3 gold "Take A Chance On Me"; Top 10s "Waterloo" and "The Winner Takes It All"; Top 20s "SOS," "Knowing Me, Knowing You," "Fernando," "Does Your Mother Know" and "The Name Of The Game," and Top 40s "Mamma Mia" and "Chiquitita." The DVD features all 19 video clips, taking full advantage of the progress in digital technology since they were last remastered.

We have five copies of this special ABBA package to give away. Enter to win by commenting on this post and please remember to leave your email address in the text of your comment. Entries close at midnight on Thursday, west coast time. Publicists: If you'd like to take part in Swag Tuesday on JMG, please email me.

ABBA Makes Rock-N-Roll Hall Of Fame

ABBA made the list of 2010 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame. Joining them will be Genesis, The Stooges, The Hollies, and Jimmy Cliff. And once again: NO DONNA SUMMER. Outrage! Eligibility begins 25 years after an artist's first release, making Donna now ten years overdue. So much for those 12 Grammy nominations and five wins, including for Best Rock Vocal.