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Musicals In Ahoy'
''Musicals in Ahoy'' was a musical show that took place in 2002 in "Ahoy'" in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It was produced by Stage Entertainment/Joop van den Ende Theatreproductions. There were seven shows in a row, with 15.000 sold seats every night. It was a song and dance extravaganza supported by the Dutch Musical Ensemble. In 2004 they revived this concept with the show ''Musicals in Ahoy 2004, Musical meets Movie''. A run of nine shows. In 2006 they revived this concept again. Also international stars like Vanessa Williams Vanessa Lynn Williams (born March 18, 1963) is an American singer, actress, and fashion designer. She gained recognition as the first African-American woman to receive the Miss America title when she was crowned Miss America 1984. She resigne ... performed in the ''Musicals in Ahoy'' shows. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musicals In Ahoy 2004
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole. Although musical theatre overlaps with other theatrical forms like opera and dance, it may be distinguished by the equal importance given to the music as compared with the dialogue, movement and other elements. Since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works have generally been called, simply, musicals. Although music has been a part of dramatic presentations since ancient times, modern Western musical theatre emerged during the 19th century, with many structural elements established by the works of Gilbert and Sullivan in Britain and those of Harrigan and Hart in America. These were followed by the numerous Edwardian musical comedies and the musical theatre work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pia Douwes
Pia Douwes (born 5 August 1964) is a Dutch actress in musical theatre in Europe. She is best known for having created the title role in the German-language musical '' Elisabeth''. Biography Douwes was born in Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands, as ''Petronella Irene Allegonda Douwes'', to an arts dealer and a social worker, and is the grandniece of Doris Day. Initially Douwes wanted to become a nurse for mentally handicapped children, then she danced in a disco when she was 19 years old and realised that she wanted to dance. She went to London and searched for a dance school in the ''Yellow Pages''. She chose the ''Brooking School of Ballet''. Without any prior dance education, she auditioned (with a sprained ankle) and was accepted. One year later she attended a musical workshop with Susi Nicoletti and Sam Cane in Vienna. Cane is said to have told Douwes' father at that time: "If she doesn't become a star, I'll hang myself!" In 1986, she got her first small part in the Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Janzen
Chantal Janzen (; born 15 February 1979) is a Dutch actress, singer and TV presenter. She had parts in '' The Preacher'', ''Full Moon Party'' and '' Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo'' and presented '' Idols''. She also played Belle in the Dutch musical production of ''Beauty and the Beast'' (noted for being the first Belle with blonde hair) and Jane in ''Tarzan''. From late 2011 to mid 2012, she starred as Glinda in the musical ''Wicked''. She also sang a song against cancer, called "Vecht Mee" (English: Fight With Us) with Dutch rapper Yes-R. Internationally, she's best known for co-hosting '' Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light'' and the Eurovision Song Contest 2021. Life and career Janzen was born in Tegelen. She studied at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. She was taught in classical, modern, jazz and tapdance, acting, singing and musical repertoire. She played in several musicals, including '' Crazy For You'', ''Kunt u mij de weg naar Hamelen vertellen, mijnheer?'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny De Munk
Dennis "Danny" de Munk (born 19 February 1970 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch actor, singer, musical actor and former child star. Career De Munk started acting at the age of 13 as the leading role in the film Ciske de Rat (Ciske the Rat), directed by Guido Pieters, starring Herman van Veen as teacher and Willeke van Ammelrooy as mother. The coming of age trilogy (book) was written by Piet Bakker from 1941 to 1946. The title song of the film ''Ik voel me zo verdomd alleen'' was also sung by Danny de Munk and in 1984 scored a number one hit in the Dutch Top 40 and stayed there for 14 weeks (3 weeks number one). Between 1986 and 1991 he had successfully continued acting and singing, but started 1991 a career as musical actor. In 1995 Danny de Munk covered Thomas Anders' (of Modern Talking fame) song ''How Deep Is Your Love''SeDiscogs/ref> for the album Danny. In 1997 he played a homosexual in a soccer team in the film ''All Stars''. He is still singing and has an own stage program. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bastiaan Ragas
Bastiaan Johannes Ragas (born 30 June 1971) is a Dutch singer and actor. Born in Lisse, he was the youngest of three brothers. Ragas learnt piano and guitar at school. He also participated and traveled with the international musical group Up With People during their 1989-1990 tour. He first came into the public eye as a member of the Anglo-Dutch boy band Caught in the Act in the 1990s. Caught in the Act broke up in 1998 and Ragas embarked on a solo career. His first album, ''Tomorrow is Looking Good'', was released in 2000. Also in 2000, he played Radames in the Dutch production of the musical Aïda. He later played d'Artagnan in Joop van den Ende's 2003–2004 production of '' 3 Musketiers''. Ragas has also worked in film, appearing in the West Frisian language film '' De Sportman van de Eeuw'' and providing the Dutch voice of Sinbad in '' Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas''. Working on ''Sinbad'' he met TV presenter Tooske Breugem and they later starred together in ''3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathilde Santing
Mathilde Santing (born Mathilde Eleveld, 24 October 1958) is a Dutch singer. Santing was born in Amstelveen, Netherlands. She started receiving national attention in 1981 after she appeared in a Dutch television program called ''Sonja Op Maandag'' hosted by Sonja Barend. Over the next 25 years, she released a steady stream of albums, making her a fixture in the Dutch music scene. In 1986 she won the BV Popprijs at Noorderslag in Groningen. She was the first artist to win this prize. In 1993 the album Texas Girl & Pretty Boy was released, on which Mathilde performed 14 songs by Randy Newman. Later she would do the same with songs from Frank Sinatra and Joni Mitchel. In 1997, she played a role in the musical Joe. The song Inspiration was released as a single. In the same year she had a hit with Beautiful people, a cover of Melanie. Black's ‘Wonderful Life’ from 1999 is her biggest hit to date. In the 2006/2007 theatre season, she appeared in the role of Glinda in Joop van d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henk Poort
Henk Poort (born 20 January 1956) is a Dutch actor and singer, who mainly plays in operas and musicals. Biography Henk Poort is a Dutch singer born in 1956. Poort's major roles include Erik (the Phantom) in the Dutch version of ''The Phantom of the Opera'' and Jean Valjean in the first staging of the Dutch version of ''Les Misérables'' in the late 1990s. He also sang as one of the "17 Valjeans" at '' Les Misérables: The Dream Cast in Concert''. His most recent role was Tevye in ''Anatevka''. Beyond musicals and opera, he provided the voice of Gaston on the Dutch version of Disney's animation film ''Beauty and the Beast''. In 2019 Nightwish vocalist Floor Jansen performed ''Phantom of the Opera'' with Poort for the Dutch TV show ''Beste Zangers ''Beste Zangers'', formerly ''De beste zangers van Nederland'' (English: ''The Best Singers (of the Netherlands)''), is a Dutch reality television show by public broadcaster AVROTROS (a merger of AVRO and TROS, both part of the Net ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Vlasblom
Frizzle Sizzle were a Dutch teenage girl group of the 1980s. The four members of the group were Karin Vlasblom (born 10 August 1967), Laura Vlasblom (born 8 October 1968), Mandy Huydts (born 9 April 1969) and Marjon Keller (born 1 June 1970). History Early years: Kinderen voor Kinderen The girls debuted in 1981 on the second album of Kinderen voor Kinderen, a children's choir whose ongoing television-shows are broadcast by VARA each November. All four of them were given a lead vocal; Karin in ''Gastarbeider'' (a song about a forbidden love between a Dutch girl and a Greek boy), Mandy in ''Bijna brugklas'' (about the transition from primary to secondary school) and Marjon in ''Roken'', an anti-smoking tirade. Laura sang ''Verlegenheid'' (a reminder that shyness hits everyone at one moment) in an embryonic line-up of Frizzle Sizzle (minus Marjon). Due to their age (14 was the maximum), the Vlasblom sisters left after the second album; Mandy and Marjon paid further contributions to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liesbeth List
Elisabeth Dorathea List, generally known as Liesbeth List (December 12, 1941 – March 25, 2020) was a Dutch singer, stage actress and television personality. She became popular during the 1960s and frequently collaborated with Ramses Shaffy. She also sang Jacques Brel's chansons in Dutch translation. Biography Early life List was born in Bandoeng, Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia), as Elisabeth "Elly" Dorathea Driessen. Her parents were separated in 1942 when during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, her father was forced to work in coal mines. Elly and her mother were sent to one of the many camps set up exclusively to imprison Dutch occupants of Indonesia; such camps were known under the Dutch nickname "jappenkamp" (Jap-Camp). The circumstances in which Elly and her mother lived in the camp were very hard on her mother, who developed depression. When the Japanese capitulated at the end of WWII Elly and her mother were set free. They were reunited with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"New Meuse"'' inland shipping channel, dug to connect to the Meuse first, but now to the Rhine instead. Rotterdam's history goes back to 1270, when a dam was constructed in the Rotte. In 1340, Rotterdam was granted city rights by William IV, Count of Holland. The Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area, with a population of approximately 2.7 million, is the 10th-largest in the European Union and the most populous in the country. A major logistic and economic centre, Rotterdam is Europe's largest seaport. In 2020, it had a population of 651,446 and is home to over 180 nationalities. Rotterdam is known for its university, riverside setting, lively cultural life, maritime heritage and modern architecture. The near-complete destruction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Wagenmakers
Linda Wagenmakers (born 30 November 1975, Arnhem) is a Dutch singer and voice actress. She started her career at 21 playing Kim in the Dutch version of the musical ''Miss Saigon''. She played in the RTL 4 drama series ''Westenwind'', for which she also recorded the song "Laat me vrij om te gaan". Wagenmakers voiced the Dutch version of Mulan in the Disney animation movie. And was part of many television shows and events. She was part of the original cast of ''Rocky over the rainbow'' playing Maggs and in later versions Dorothy. She was part of '' Musicals in Ahoy'' in 2001 singing the role of Kim from ''Miss Saigon'' as well as Eponine from ''Les Miserables''. She also represented her country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 in Stockholm, with the song " No Goodbyes" involving a huge black and white dress designed by Jan Aarntzen She featured in a gospel national theater tour in '' The Spirit of Joy!'' She also played the lead role in the Dolly Dots musical '' Love me just a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joke De Kruijf
Johanna Maria "Joke" de Kruijf (born 22 July 1965) is a Dutch musical theatre performer, actress and lyrical soprano, mostly known for her roles in musical theatre and various Dutch dubbings for Walt Disney productions. Biography After highschool de Kruijf started the preparatory training for the Academy of Music. After that, she was accepted at the Academy for Kleinkunst (cabaret) and the Nel Roos Academie. She started her career with the musicals ''Cats'' and ''The Phantom of the Opera'' in Hamburg and Vienna. De Kruijf's first role in the Netherlands was Cosette in ''Les Misérables''. She went on to play the role of Christine Daaé in ''The Phantom of the Opera'' in the Netherlands in 1992. She was asked to audition for the Dutch dubbing of Walt Disney's ''Cinderella'' and got the part. She subsequently did the Dutch voices for Belle in ''Beauty and the Beast'', Aurora in ''Sleeping Beauty'' and Mary Poppins in ''Mary Poppins''. De Kruijf performed in various concerts, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
