Andersson's next project was Mamma Mia !, a musical built around 24 of ABBA's songs, which has become a worldwide box-office blockbuster with versions in several languages currently being played in many countries, including the UK ( West End premiere in April 1999 ), Canada ( Toronto premiere in 2000 ), the USA ( Broadway premiere in 2001 ), and Sweden ( Swedish language premiere in 2005 ).

In the UK, the opera was first presented at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 19 May 1894 with Arturo Pessina in the title role, while the US premiere was at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, on 4 February 1895 with Victor Maurel as Falstaff.

Il trovatore was first performed in the US on 2 May 1855 at the recently-opened Academy of Music in New York while its UK premiere took place on 10 May 1855 at Covent Garden in London.

The UK premiere took place at Her Majesty's Theatre in London on 8 March 1845 followed on 13 April 1847 by its US premiere in New York.

In 1941, London's Prince of Wales Theatre screened its UK premiere.

The new play, now revised and updated, had its premiere in Chesterfield in January 2011 and then embarked on a UK tour.

The UK premiere was at the Close Theatre Club in Glasgow in October 1969 ; this was the first performance of the text as written.

The 2012 Festival, had Oliver Knussen as Artist in Residence, and the typically eclectic progamme included new productions by Netia Jones of Knussen ’ s Where the Wild Things Are and Higglety Pigglety Pop !, a concert series exploring the work of Helmut Lachenmann, recitals by Menahem Pressler, Ian Bostridge, Peter Serkin, Miklós Perényi, Dezsö Ránki and the Arditti and Keller Quartets, the CBSO with the UK premiere of a work by Elliott Carter, as well as dramatised performances with film at the Leiston Long Shop Museum, the complete screening with live accompaniment of Britten ’ s 1930s film scores, a promenade performance of John Cage ’ s Song Books in the Hoffmann Building under the banner of # Faster than Sound, and open-air community events on Aldeburgh Beach.

By the time of the 21 February 1936 UK premiere and initial release, this had been reduced to 108m 30s, while the American print premiered on 18 April 1936 was further cut to 96m 24s.

Jarman's surviving muse Keith Collins and Siouxsie and the Banshees founder Steven Severin both participated in the making of the film, which had its world premiere at the 2009 Reykjavik International Film Festival in Iceland, its UK premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in London, and its California premiere at the 2010 Frameline International Film Festival in San Francisco.

* November 29 – Juan José Castro conducts the UK premiere of Carlos Chávez's Third Symphony at the Maida Vale Studios with the London Symphony Orchestra

Primavera Productions produced the first UK revival at the fringe Jermyn Street Theatre in London, running from February 10, 2009 through March 14, 2009 ; this was the UK premiere of the revised Off-Broadway score.

* September 29-The Prisoner has its UK premiere on ATV and Grampian Television.

Chaplin was against the deal, but changed his mind in late 1952 when the US government revoked his re-entry visa while he was in London for the UK premiere of Limelight.

This opera was first seen in New York its US premiere on 11 February 1861 and in the UK on 15 June of that year.

The 1947 UK premiere was not recorded by the BBC, but an off-air recording was made on acetate discs.

The region 2 DVD released in the UK includes an interview of Almodóvar by Banderas, footage of the premiere in Madrid, poster and still galleries, and trailers.

However, UK Home Secretary Jack Straw took the responsibility to release him on medical grounds, and refused to extradite him to Spain.

Digimon Frontier ( the fourth series / season ) never aired in the UK as the shows ( then ) provider Jetix took it off the air, which shortly after, Jetix ended.

Notably, Amazon UK also took advantage of this by dispatching some low-value items from Jersey.

The reporting obligations include reporting suspicions relating to gains from conduct carried out in other countries which would be criminal if it took place in the UK.

* The first UK Mars Day, attended by some 200 members of the public took place in 2002.

Relations between the UK and Nepal have historically been friendly and there have been close links between the Royal Families, although relations deteriorated when the King took power in 2005.

That same year, Green Day, which had gone through a relatively fallow period commercially, took American Idiot to number one on both the U. S. and UK charts ; the band matched the feat five years later with 21st Century Breakdown.

When this proved too small he took over Winterland and then the Fillmore West ( in San Francisco ) and the Fillmore East ( in New York City ), where the major rock artists, from both the US and the UK, came to play.

The late 1980s saw the birth of shoegazing in the UK, which, among other influences, took inspiration from 1960s psychedelia.

In the UK, the dessert-spoon and soup-spoon began to displace the table-spoon as the primary implement for eating from a bowl, at which point the name " table-spoon " took on a secondary meaning as a much larger serving spoon.

On her 78th Birthday, February 18, 2011, Ono took out a full page advert in the UK free newspaper Metro for ' Imagine Peace 2011 '.

Eventually Rabin took over final production, and the album was released in September 1987 which reached number 17 in the UK and number 15 in the US.

This early vision, based in the Picturesque movement, took over a century, and much controversy, to take legal form in the UK with the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949.

An album launch gig took place at The Forum, London on 18 March followed by UK, European and US tours in support of the release.

An offence is generally only triable in the jurisdiction where the offence took place, unless a specific statute enables the UK to exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction.

Carrie Fisher, in an appearance on the UK TV show Bring Back Star Wars, said she hated her character's hairstyle ; she felt it made her face look rounder, and it took two hours every day to style.

A 1998 re-release took the track to number 55 in the UK Chart.

In foreign policy, Heath took the UK into the European Economic Community ( EEC ) in 1973.

Wilson's Government took strong action against the controversial, self-styled " Church " of Scientology in 1967, banning foreign Scientologists from entering the UK, a prohibition which remained in force until 1980.

In 2002, EY took over many of the ex-Arthur Andersen practices around the world, although not those in the UK, China or the Netherlands.

Cable & Wireless, privatised after several decades of UK government ownership, took a controlling stake in Optus in 1998 ( under the banner Cable & Wireless Optus ) before control passed to SingTel in 2001.

On 1 July 2010 Everything Everywhere Limited took control of both Orange UK and T-Mobile UK in a joint venture, although currently both Orange and T-Mobile are keeping their individual shops and brands.

From 2008 the Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition final will be held at 100 % Design in London, UK and the Bombay Sapphire Prize will take place in Milan at the Salone Del Mobile.

Similar regulations are in place in Germany, where anyone who has spent six months or more living in the UK between January 1980 and December 1996 is permanently banned from donating blood.

Most episodes in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s rated with over 20 million viewers and during the 1990s and early 2000s 15 – 20 million per episode would be typical Like most terrestrial television in the UK, a dramatic decline in viewership has taken place and the show currently posts figures of between 8 and 14 million per episode.

* Comedy Band The Barron Knights ' 1978 UK # 3 hit single A Taste Of Aggro, a medley of parodies, included a version of The Smurf Song featuring, in place of the Smurfs, a group of bank robbers from Catford who have escaped from Dartmoor Prison.

However, in the UK, the eurosceptic United Kingdom Independence Party achieved second place in the elections, finishing ahead of the governing Labour Party, and the British National Party ( BNP ) won its first ever two MEPs.

The London Short Film Festival is a BAFTA-affiliated festival which takes place in January every year and is dedicated to finding and showcasing the work of new UK talent, including specific screenings for low budget work.

For example, in the UK ( and in other Commonwealth countries ), to " table " a motion means to place it on the agenda ( to bring it to the table for consideration ), while in the US it means exactly the opposite —" to remove it from consideration " ( to lay it aside on the table rather than hold it up for consideration ).

Gambling games that take place outside of casinos include Bingo ( as played in the US and UK ), dead pool, lotteries, pull-tab games and scratchcards, and Mahjong.

* 1984 – A major clash between about 5, 000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984-1985 UK miners ' strike.

Regarded as a place of pilgrimage to the followers of the Anglo-Catholic movement from all over the UK, Kettlebaston was the liturgically highest of all Suffolk's Anglican churches.

A continuity should also not be confused with an imprint ; for example, while the titles of some imprints, such as Ultimate Marvel, take place in a different continuity, some or all publications in other imprints, such as Epic Comics, Marvel MAX, and Marvel UK, take place within the Earth-616 continuity.

Modern competitions take place for ploughing enthusiasts like the National Ploughing Championships in the UK.

In the U. S. all types of races are referred to as regattas whereas this term is only used in the UK for head-to-head or multi-lane races ( such as those that take place at Dorney Lake ), which generally take place in the summer season.

Perennial weak points of Spain's economy include high inflation, a large underground economy, and an education system, beside UK and the United States, which OECD reports place among the poorest for developed countries.

To this end, they emphasise the country's Anglican heritage, oppose any transfer of power away from the United Kingdom — either downwards to the nations and regions or upwards to the European Union — and seek to place greater emphasis on traditional family structures to repair what they see as a broken society in the UK.

* September 7 – September 14 – The UK fuel protests take place, with refineries blockaded, and supply to the country's network of petrol stations halted.

* October 16 – British police place General Augusto Pinochet under house arrest during his medical treatment in the UK.

Release as a double EP will not take place in the UK until December.

Teaching quality inspections place the university within the top twenty in the UK, according to The Complete University Guide.