LOGAN – The Cache Valley Center for the Arts will kick off its summer season at the Ellen Eccles Theatre with a performance of the ABBA tribute band ARRIVAL from Sweden on Thursday, May 29.
That announcement was made by Gavin Syme, the CacheARTs director of marketing, during a “For the People” broadcast on KVNU on Mar. 13.
“Tickets for that event went on sale about 10 minutes ago,” Syme explained, via the CacheARTS website at www.cachearts.org
Syme added that the summer kick-off won’t be the tribute band’s first visit to Cache Valley. ARRIVAL from Sweden performed here in February of 2024, receiving a spontaneous standing ovation from a near sell-out crowd of mostly Baby Boomers.
In their salute to one of the most successful glam-rock recording groups of the 1970s, ARRIVAL from Sweden promises to recreate ABBA’s stage show, complete with catchy music, breathtaking vocals, flashy lighting, glittering costumes and even the same cheesy choreography.
Although the boomers in the audience in 2024 were definitely there to recapture a nostalgic “blast from the past,” the local crowd also included numerous younger members who settled right into the grove, dancing and jiving in their seats.
Cache Valley’s younger set are probably familiar with ABBA’s music after seeing local productions of the juke-box musical Mamma Mia! — previously performed by the Cache Theatre Company and the Lyric Repertory Company — or the eye-catchingly beautiful 2008 film of the same name.
Local audiences will also have the opportunity to catch up on the best of ABBA music when the Four Seasons Theatre Company stages Mamma Mia! from March 20 to 29 in Smithfield.
Syme said the tribute band’s appearance is one of several events scheduled at the Ellen Eccles Theatre this summer in lieu of the Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre productions normally performed there.
Those events will include The Scarlet Pimpernel, a swashbuckling musical set during the French Revolution, to be performed by Music Theatre West on June 20 to 28; a Cache Theatre Company production of The Prince of Egypt slated for July 11 to 19; and others still to be announced.
ARRIVAL from Sweden was founded in 1995 in Gothenberg, Sweden by vocalist Vicky Zetterberg. Since then, the band has become recognized as one of the most popular ABBA tribute bands.
Over its nearly 30-year career, ARRIVAL from Sweden has toured more than 70 countries, including 86 successful tours of the United States in the last decade.
The Ellen Eccles Theatre is located at 43 South Main Street in downtown Logan.