The Concert: A Tribute to ABBA plays an April matinee at American Music Theatre

The long-running touring ABBA tribute comes to Lancaster for a 3 p.m. Saturday show on April 10.

Some shows suit an afternoon. The Concert: A Tribute to ABBA plays American Music Theatre in Lancaster on Saturday, April 10, 2027, at 3 p.m. The date was announced October 26. Tickets are through American Music Theatre.

The Concert is a long-running production that has toured North America for well over a decade, according to its producer, 21st Century Artists. Over the years it has gone by other names, among them ABBA The Music, ABBA The Hits and ABBA The Concert. Sources disagree on exactly when it started. One venue listing says the group formed in 1996, and others give spans of 20 years or more. Every account agrees it has been on the road for a long time.

The producers say the show is not affiliated with ABBA or with Mamma Mia. It is a tribute, and it presents itself as one. Its lead singer, Matilda Lindell, has been with the group since 2008.

Recent dates show how widely it travels. It played the Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown, New Jersey, in May 2025 and the Williamsburg Live series in Virginia that June. Its 2026 calendar has included Wolf Trap and the Tennessee Theatre. The Lancaster date continues that kind of touring, in established performing-arts rooms on the East Coast and beyond.

Then there's the room. American Music Theatre holds 1,600, a seated theater sized for a production like this one. A 1,600-seat house gives a tribute show the scale to feel like an event, while every seat still has a view of the stage.

The 3 p.m. start is the detail to notice. A Saturday matinee opens the show to people who would rather not drive home late, families with younger kids, and anyone who wants to make an afternoon of it with dinner afterward. For a catalog that crosses generations as easily as ABBA's, an afternoon slot makes sense.

Tickets are on sale through the theater now. Matinee seating in a room this size tends to go to groups who plan ahead, so if you're organizing an outing, sooner is better than later.

There's no pretense here: it's a tribute show, and a well-traveled one. On a Saturday afternoon in April, that's a perfectly good reason to head to Lancaster.

Sources: The Concert: A Tribute to ABBA (Mayo Performing Arts Center) (mayoarts.org); The Concert: A Tribute to ABBA (Hollywood Bowl) (hollywoodbowl.com); ABBA band responds to an SOS (The Slate) (theslateonline.com); The Concert: A Tribute to ABBA opens Williamsburg Live (WYDaily) (wydaily.com); The Concert: A Tribute to ABBA (Wolf Trap) (wolftrap.org); The Concert: A Tribute To ABBA (Tennessee Theatre) (tennesseetheatre.com); The Concert: A Tribute to ABBA at American Music Theatre (JamBase) (jambase.com)