TIL in addition to the musical "Chess," Benny Anderssen and Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA wrote a musical called "Kristina från Duvemåla," a story of a young Swedish family emigrating to the United States in the mid 1800s (based on the Swedish novels "The Emigrants" by Vilhelm Moberg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristina_fr%C3%A5n_Duvem%C3%A5la
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g3ldp6/til_in_addition_to_the_musical_chess_benny/