Joop van den Ende

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Joop van den Ende, 2018

Joop van den Ende (born February 23, 1942 in Amsterdam , Netherlands ) is a musical, theater and film producer .

Live and act

Joop van den Ende grew up in a working-class family in Amsterdam. After completing the Ambachtsschool (vocational school), he worked in the building trade for a year and then began training as a set designer at the Dutch Opera. He founded his own cabaret group with the Amsterdam Youth Theater. After serving in the army, he became an actor. After a few years as an actor, he decided to become a producer.

In 1969 he began his career as an independent theater and television producer. At the end of 1975 the first milestone was the production of the Dutch version of the French piece Cyrano de Bergerac . There were also: Sweet Charity , Les Misérables , The Phantom of the Opera , My Fair Lady , Evita , Miss Saigon , West Side Story , Chicago and Elisabeth .

In 1980 he produced Paul Verhoeven's film Spetters after its regular producer Rob Houwer left the project.

Endemol Entertainment was created in 1993 from a merger between Van den Ende and John de Mol . The company went public in 1996 and was bought by the Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica in 2000.

Previously, in 1998 he bought the production area for live entertainment within Endemol and founded the company Stage Entertainment , which currently operates theaters and musicals in Europe and the USA in eleven theaters in Germany (through the spin-off Stage Entertainment Germany ), one each in Moscow and Paris , London, Barcelona and Milan, produced in two theaters in Madrid and three in the Netherlands. Stage is also represented in New York with an Off Broadway theater complex with five stages.

Together with his wife Janine, in 2001 he founded one of the largest private funds in the Netherlands, the VandenEnde Foundation, which promotes and brings to life numerous cultural and educational projects across the country.

Broadway productions

  1. Cyrano - November 21, 1993 - March 20, 1994
  2. Hamlet - May 2, 1995 - July 22, 1995
  3. Victor / Victoria - October 25, 1995 - July 27, 1997
  4. Once Upon a Mattress - December 19, 1996 - June 1, 1997
  5. Mandy Patinkin in Concert - March 1, 1997 - March 23, 1997
  6. Titanic - April 23, 1997 - March 21, 1999
  7. 1776 - August 14, 1997 - June 14, 1998
  8. Mandy Patinkin in Concert: "Mamaloshen" - October 13, 1998 - November 7, 1998
  9. Footloose - October 22, 1998 - July 2, 2000
  10. 42nd Street - May 2, 2001
  11. Into the Woods - April 30, 2002 - December 29, 2002
  12. Dracula - August 19, 2004
  13. Sister Act - March 24, 2011
  14. Rocky - 2013

Awards

Honorary doctorate from Erasmus University Rotterdam and Nyenrode University of Economics

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personal data
SURNAME End, Joop van den
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch musical and theater producer
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam , Netherlands