Abba's Bjorn and Benny in court over musical
Former ABBA members Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson went to court today in a failed attempt to settle a dispute about who wrote the script to one of their musicals, Swedish media reported.
Ulvaeus and Andersson appeared at Stockholm District Court to try to solve a decade-long feud about the script to the musical Kristina From Duvemala, which has been seen by more than 1 million people in Sweden and is expected to move to Broadway in the coming years.
Writer Carl-Johan Seth told the court that he should be considered the main writer of the script, a claim that is disputed by Ulvaeus and Andersson.
While Seth was originally hired to write the script, they said, his work was later completely revised by director Lars Rudolfsson and dramatist Jan Mark.
The two sides were unable to agree on how the rights to the script should be divided, which means the case will likely go to trial next year.
