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Abbacadabra is the name of a France|French children's Musical theatre|musical based on songs from the Pop music|pop group ABBA, originally produced for French television in 1983 by Alain and Daniel Boublil, but which was later also transferred to an English stage version and 2 other television programs.

French television version
The French TV production consisted of 14 ABBA songs with new French lyrics by Alain & Daniel Boublil, and the story was based on classic fairy tales like Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Pinocchio, Snow White and others. The cast was made up of children and well known French singers like Fabienne Thibeault, Daniel Balavoine, Plastic Bertrand, Maurice Barrier, Daniel Boublil (as 'Daniel Beaufixe'), Francoise Pourcel (as Marie Framboise), Catherine Ferry, StÃ©phane Le Navelan, StÃ©phane Boublil (son of Alain), ClÃ©mentine Autain and Emmanuelle Pailly.

Anni-Frid Lyngstad|Frida from ABBA was invited to play the part of "Belle au bois dormant" (Sleeping Beauty), and recorded the song (a cover of ABBA's 1976 instrumental track "Arrival") "Belle" as a duet with Daniel Balavoine.

Abbacadabra was originally broadcast on the French TV channel TF1 over Christmas, 1983.

Songs
* Qu'est-ce que je vais faire plus tard / When I kissed the teacher
* DelivrÃ©s / The Visitors
* Abbacadabra / Take a chance on ... read all