Andersson & Ulvaeus' Musical Kristina Coming to Carnegie Hall

Kristina, a musical from the creators of the worldwide hit Mamma Mia!, will make its New York debut in two concert performances this fall. The show, which features music and lyrics by ABBA songwriting partners Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and English lyrics by Ulvaeus and Herbert Kretzmer, will be performed in concert at Carnegie Hall on September 23 and 24. No casting or director has been announced.

Originally titled Kristina från Duvemåla, the musical premiered in the creators’ native Sweden in 1995 and ran for almost four years, winning four Guldmasken Theatre Awards Sweden’s Tony. Based on The Emigrants series of novels by Vilhelm Moberg, Kristina tells the epic story of a family’s migration from Sweden to America in the mid-19th century. A concert version was performed in Swedish in 1996 in Minneapolis, where many events in the novels took place.

A cast recording of the Carnegie Hall concert version of Kristina is being planned, to be released through Universal Music’s Decca Records.