Bill Van Dijk News

This time, the reader question was: With The Great Gatsby musicals happening now, are there other examples of musicals about the same subject?

Rudy Hellewegen (ZZP tourmanager) en Steven Roox (acteur in Anastasia, de musical) begonnen vorige week aan een bijzonder initiatief, Broadway op de Bank, waar zij thuis musicalacteurs bezochten en samen muziek maakten. Nu de regels zijn aangescherpt, nemen de mannen geen onnodige risico's. Gelukkig laat creativiteit zich niet reguleren.

Theatre is supposed to do something to their audience, either make them laugh, make them mad, make them think, make them question life, make them cry, or in this case, make them angry. Op Hoop van Zegen is a new musical based on a Dutch classic play by Herman Heijermans.

The Dutch musical theatre community participated actively today in the festive ceremony with which HRH Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands passed the torch to her son, Willem Alexander.

In June 2012, she celebrated her 1000th performance as Elphaba in three subsequent production of Wicked: in Stuttgart and Oberhausen (Germany) and in Scheveningen (The Netherlands). On February 12th Willemijn Verkaik will make her Broadway debut and play the green witch for 15 weeks at the Gershwin Theatre.