Archive for the 'Theatre' Category

Sound of Music

Friday, May 8th, 2009

Regular visitors of my blog will know that I’m an avid theater-fan, and also love watching TV searches for the lead in a musical. We’ve watched them all, at the BBC and on Dutch TV 🙂 Not too long ago they started the search for Maria in the Belgian production of The Sound of Music. […]

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Ciske de Rat

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Opening night: October 5, 2008 Seen: RAI Amsterdam, February 5, 2009 It’s hard to explain this to foreigners as the story is so typically Dutch. It’s like explaining Uncle Tom’s Cabin or Huckleberry Finn to someone outside the US. Impossible indeed, so I’m going to keep this short, but still wanted to write a review […]

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Joseph (Dutch)

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Opening night: December 12, 2008 Seen: December 15, 2008 Finally we got to see the Dutch stage-musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Longtime visitors of my blog know that we supported Freek in the race for the lead. As I saw the show in London many times, with […]

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The people’s Joseph :)

Monday, October 27th, 2008

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Freek IS Joseph (well… almost)

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Tonight were the semi-finals and Freek is through to the finals!!! He’s the only one who never had to sing in the sing-off, and that’s quite an accomplishment. Next Sunday are the finals and the tickets were sold out way in advance, but… I AM GOING!! Yeeeeeha! One of my colleagues received a press-invitation (advantage […]

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