#uitmarkt

"didn't I know how it would go? if I knew from the start why am I falling apart?" –I Know Him So Well, Chess

Every year there is this big event to celebrate the opening of the new theatre season, with previews and performances of all the (big) new shows, only this year because covid, they combined it with the Musical Awards.

The whole thing was a bit of a sham (though Aladdin and Rocky Horror look fun) but when Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange - it’s supposed to come to London too.. though who knows what’s happening there because covid) won best Dutch Musical, and the director/creator received the award from the hands of the ACTING (because the whole government resigned back in Feb) minister of culture (who had just given this speech about buying tickets and supporting your fave shows/performers and how she’s missed live theatre), he thanked the audience, he took a moment to big up the new actor playing the lead... and then he turned to the minister and confronted her ON STAGE ON LIVE TV about the lack of support for the performing arts, and pushed her to let theatres open up at full capacity on September 17th.

She didn’t say anything though... and the orchestra started this drum roll and the host tried to talk over him and get him to shut up and go away basically, but the guy kept!! going!!

There have been protests from people in the entertainment industry (and their supporters) and the only reaction from the government (after almost a week of nothing) was an invitation to a meeting to “discuss things”... and the organisers of this award show invited the minister of culture to hand out a musical theatre award... and expected the winners to just say thank you and sit back down.

And now all Dutch musical fans are trying to buy tickets for the show (Soldaat van Oranje) at the same time and caused the website to crash.

Vijftien jaar nadat Jim Bakkum en Bettina Holwerda in de musical Grease voor de laatste keer de rollen van Danny en Sandy hebben gespeeld, kruipen ze nog een keer in hun personages. Tijdens de Uitmarkt in Amsterdam geven Jim en Bettina een eenmalig en uniek optreden als Danny en Sandy. Uitmarkt 2022: Musical Awards’, The Kick-off is zondag 28 augustus live te volgen via AVROTROS om 21:22 uur op…