The Musical comedy Awards, Wednesday night handed out during the Musical Awards Gala in the city Theatre. So, thought David Bowie was named best musical and won in addition to the three awards. NU.nl trying to figure out how the Dutch musicallandschap it is.

the Show, which is only a little bit of entertainment for the masses. That is, according to the musicalmakers and is trying to make is how a lot of professionals from the performing arts towards in the genre, watch it. So-called writer Bart Chabot, who wrote the script for the show, please note that the Bread, in the production of the press presentation with the clip ” the musical. Nevertheless, it’s won In Bread-by 2017-the award for the best small stage musical. The makers have shifted the label as ‘not musical’ or ‘not a traditional musical”.

the Musical is often thought of as a flat, or be very popular,” says musicalkenner It broom-maker. “Manufacturers are finding it stylish to have, for example, in a music theatre production, to name a few.” Totally surprising to find a variety musicaldeskundigen.

Heavy themes such as war and trauma, in a musical < / p> the theatre scientist and the editor-in-chief of The Dutch musical: history of a phenomenon, Bart Dieho, explains that, in addition to pure entertainment, a lot of power and weight, it is in the genre at that time. “We’re seeing a lot of drama. Think of Ciske de Rat, in which Ciske has been traumatized by him and caused the incident that lead to the death of his mother, led. Or, “Soldier of Orange”, in which the hero sees that the corpsgenoten the wrong side of them!

in Addition, you will have to set up a musical to be a huge artistic talent and a need, underlined, Frank Sanders, one of the founders of the Dutch musical ” and co-founder of the musicalopleiding the Frank Sanders Academy. “You have to be a composer in need of a designer, a writer, a choreographer as well. In addition, the players who are in the play-acting, singing and dancing,” he said, on NPO Radio 1.

you have A condescending attitude towards musicals is in accordance with Dieho, typical for the Netherlands. “A lot of well-known British and American actors to play just as much for half of the theater season in one musical and the other half, in a play by Shakespeare. In these countries, and they get it in their heads to make a musical set at a lower level than the schouwburgtoneel.”

Danny de Munk, during a dress rehearsal for the Ciske de Rat. (Foto: BrunoPress).

and More visitors for a musical for cabaret, and dance < / p> However, that attitude is changing. Over the past few years, published works such as, He that Believes in Me, and So, also, the attention and the respect of the theatre-goers were. According to the preliminary figures by statistics netherlands from the end of 2018, the most recent one), the total number of hits for a musical of more than 3.2 million, respectively. Musical up in 2018, with more than 900,000 visitors and more to the theatre than cabaret-and 2.6-million more visitors than dance.

“In theatres, there is a huge competition between the different theatersoorten, and among the musicals,” says Dieho. “The Musical offers theatre and music. You can create a game, song, and dance, often with a surprising theatrical design. All of them are very attractive, podiumdisciplines a place where people want to look at it.”

See also: Already renewed, What remains in “Soldier of Orange” up? Soldier of Orange, to England, < / p> The most successful musical of the Netherlands “Soldier of Orange”, in the autumn, in the uk, in London. Musicalkenner broom-maker, it is very, very curious to see how the performance is going to walk away. “It helps that the story is itself, partially, in England, is playing. We don’t have a shared history with the second world war. But in London, all the theatre in the West End, for a Soldier to, they will travel a bit further. If visitors want to, it is not yet clear.”

Dieho would like to see more innovation in the area of musicallandschap, such as more players and musicalartiesten to appear in each other’s productions, and that there will be a separate training for the musicalschrijvers, and other applications. In the next few months, in a laboratory, it was a productiefonds for this small performances, and a chair in musical studies. “The interest for the musical” runs through all sections of the community around them. You can get the real quasi-people to move.”

a Call to Visit of you like to be in a musical? Why or why not? Please let us know in the comments. Backstage at the ” Soldier of Orange ‘kaalkoppen and vocal parts