Joop van den Ende
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Johannes "Joop" Adrianus van den Ende (born 23 February 1942) is a Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 media tycoon, theatrical producer
Theatrical producer
A theatrical producer is the person ultimately responsible for overseeing all aspects of mounting a theatre production. The independent producer will usually be the originator and finder of the script and starts the whole process...

, co-founder of Endemol
Endemol
Endemol is an international television production and distribution company based in the Netherlands, with subsidiaries and joint ventures in 23 countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Poland,...

 and founder/owner of Stage Entertainment
Stage Entertainment
The musical production company Stage Entertainment is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It has a very successful subsidiary in Germany based in Hamburg which almost has a monopoly in Germany.- History :...

.

Joop van den Ende (Amsterdam 1942) has produced many plays, musicals, revues, films and television programmes over the last 35 years. In 1969 he started his career as an independent theatre and television producer. Under his guidance, a new musical tradition developed in the Netherlands. Hundreds of television productions were created in his own studio complex in Aalsmeer.

In 1993 Van den Ende and his competitor John de Mol created television production company Endemol
Endemol
Endemol is an international television production and distribution company based in the Netherlands, with subsidiaries and joint ventures in 23 countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Poland,...

, combining the efforts of their respective TV companies. Endemol is the producer of popular TV formats such as Big Brother
Big Brother (TV series)
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 and is active in 25 countries on five continents.

Endemol was listed on the stock exchange in 1996 and was sold to the Spanish telecom giant Telefónica
Telefónica
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 in 2000 for €5.5bn. (In 2007 Endemol was sold on to a consortium including Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi
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, the former prime minister of Italy, as well as John de Mol, in a deal valued at €2.6bn).

In 1998, before the sale of the company, Joop van den Ende bought the Endemol live entertainment division. This was the beginning of Stage Entertainment, an international entertainment group with theatres, productions, offices and ticket sale organisations in eight countries.

In 2001 he established the VandenEnde Foundation with his wife, Janine, creating one of the largest Dutch private funds. The Foundation supports a wide variety of activities in the arts, theatre, and education fields.

Together with his business partner Hubert Deitmers, Van den Ende is also active as an investor. Van den Ende & Deitmers Venture Capitalist Partners focuses on West European cross media companies via two venture capital funds with a total value of 150 million Euro.

From 2005 to 2008, Joop van den Ende was active in real estate development through Living City Property Performance, a joint venture with Trimp & Van Tartwijk. Living City concentrated in mixed-use development and urban regeneration schemes around theatres, and was active in the Netherlands and abroad. In April 2008 Van den Ende decided to end his involvement in Living City following a fraud investigation directed at his partners in the venture. Van den Ende is still actively involved in building the new De La Mar theatre in central Amsterdam through the VandenEnde Foundation, and the VandenEnde Theatre on the Amsterdam 'Zuidas
Zuidas
The Zuidas is a large, rapidly developing business district in the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The Zuidas is also known as the 'Financial Mile'. It lies between the Amstel river and the turnaround of the ringway A10. The greatest influences for the development of the Zuidas are La...

' through his company Stage Entertainment.

In 2008, he is #843 on Forbes
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' list of billionaires and one of the richest people in the Netherlands.

Netherlands

  • 1988 - 1989 Barnum
    Barnum (musical)
    Barnum is a musical with a book by Mark Bramble, lyrics by Michael Stewart, and music by Cy Coleman. It is based on the life of showman P. T. Barnum, covering the period from 1835 through 1880 in America and major cities of the world where Barnum took his performing companies. The production...

  • 1989 - 1990 Cabaret
    Cabaret (musical)
    Cabaret is a musical based on a book written by Christopher Isherwood, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The 1966 Broadway production became a hit and spawned a 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....

  • 1989 - 1991 Sweet Charity
    Sweet Charity
    Sweet Charity is a musical with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon. It was directed and choreographed for Broadway by Bob Fosse starring his wife and muse Gwen Verdon. It is based on Federico Fellini's screenplay for Nights of Cabiria...

  • 1991 - 1992 Les Misérables
    Les Misérables (musical)
    Les Misérables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz , is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo....

  • 1991 - 1992 Funny Girl
  • 1991 - 1993 Tsjechov
  • 1992 - 1994 Cyrano
    Cyrano (musical)
    Cyrano is a musical with a book and lyrics by Anthony Burgess and music by Michael J. Lewis.Based on Edmond Rostand's classic 1897 play of the same name, it focuses on a love triangle involving the large-nosed poetic Cyrano de Bergerac, his beautiful cousin Roxana, and his classically handsome but...

    -De Musical
  • 1993 - 1996 The Phantom of the Opera
    The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)
    The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux.The music was composed by Lloyd Webber, and most lyrics were written by Charles Hart, with additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. Alan Jay Lerner was an early collaborator,...

  • 1993 - 1994 Sweeney Tod
  • 1994 - 1996 My Fair Lady
    My Fair Lady
    My Fair Lady is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe...

  • 1995 - 1997 Evita
  • 1996 - 1999 Miss Saigon
    Miss Saigon
    Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr.. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover...

  • 1996 - 1998 West Side Story
  • 1997 - 1998 Joe
    Joe
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    – De Musical
  • 1997 - 1998 De Jantjes
  • 1998 - 1998 Nilsson
    Nilsson
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  • 1998 - 1999 Anatevka
    Fiddler on the Roof
    Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem...

  • 1999 - 2001 Chicago
    Chicago (musical)
    Chicago is a musical set in Prohibition-era Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the "celebrity criminal"...

  • 1998 - 1999 Blood Brothers
  • 1998 - 1998 The Dancing Queens
  • 1999 - 2000 Oliver!
    Oliver!
    Oliver! is a British musical, with script, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....

  • 1999 - 2000 Fame-De Musical
    Fame (musical)
    A stage musical based on the 1980 musical film Fame has been staged under two titles. The first, 'Fame – The Musical' conceived and developed by David De Silva, is a musical with a book by Jose Fernandez, music by Steve Margoshes and lyrics by Jacques Levy. The musical premiered in 1988 in Miami,...

  • 1999 - 2001 Elisabeth
    Elisabeth (musical)
    Elisabeth is a Viennese, German-language musical commissioned by the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien , with book/lyrics by Michael Kunze and music by Sylvester Levay. It portrays the life and death of the Empress consort of Austria, Elisabeth of Bavaria, wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I...

  • 2000 - 2001 42nd Street
    42nd Street (musical)
    42nd Street is a musical with a book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, lyrics by Al Dubin, and music by Harry Warren. The 1980 Broadway production, directed by an ailing Gower Champion and orchestrated by Philip J. Lang, won the Tony Award for Best Musical and became a long-running hit...

  • 2000 - 2001 Rent
    Rent (musical)
    Rent is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème...

  • 2000 - 2001 Tango de Valentino
  • 2000 - 2001 Rex
    Rex (musical)
    Rex is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and libretto by Sherman Yellen, based on the life of King Henry VIII.-Production history:...

  • 2001 - 2002 A Chorus Line
    A Chorus Line
    A Chorus Line is a 1975 musical about Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line. The book was authored by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas Dante, lyrics were written by Edward Kleban, and music was composed by Marvin Hamlisch....

  • 2001 - 2002 BoyBand
  • 2001 - 2002 Musicals in Concert
  • 2001 - 2003 Saturday Night Fever
    Saturday Night Fever
    Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 drama film directed by John Badham and starring: John Travolta as Tony Manero, an immature young man whose weekends are spent visiting a local Brooklyn discothèque; Karen Lynn Gorney as his dance partner and eventual friend; and Donna Pescow as Tony's former dance...

  • 2001 - 2002 Titanic
    Titanic (musical)
    Titanic is a musical with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and a book by Peter Stone that opened on Broadway in 1997. It won five Tony Awards including the award for Best Musical...

  • 2001 - 2003 Aida
    Aida (musical)
    Aida is a musical with music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice, and book by Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls, and David Henry Hwang, and produced by Walt Disney Theatrical....

  • 2002 Musicals in Ahoy'
  • 2002 - 2004 The Sound of Music
    The Sound of Music
    The Sound of Music is a musical by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers...

  • 2002 - 2002 Fosse
    Fosse
    Fosse is a three-act musical revue showcasing the choreography of Bob Fosse. After 21 previews, the original Broadway production, conceived and directed by Richard Maltby, Jr...

  • 2002 - 2003 Copacabana
    Copacabana (musical)
    Copacabana is a TV-musical, stage musical, and nightclub show written by Barry Manilow, based on the song of the same name. The show toured the United States and, as of 2006, became available to license to performing companies and schools for the first time....

  • 2003 - 2004 3 Musketiers
    3 Musketiers
    3 Musketiers is a Dutch musical, also known as 3 Musketiere , 3 Musketeers and A 3 Testőr written by Ferdi Bolland and Rob Bolland. The story is based on Alexandre Dumas, père's novel The Three Musketeers...

  • 2003 - 2006 Mamma Mia!
    Mamma Mia!
    Mamma Mia! is a stage musical written by British playwright Catherine Johnson, based on the songs of ABBA, composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, former members of the band. Although the title of the musical is taken from the group's 1975 chart-topper "Mamma Mia", the plot is fictional, not...

  • 2004 - 2006 The Lion King
    The Lion King (musical)
    The Lion King is a musical based on the 1994 Disney animated film of the same name with music by Elton John and lyrics by Tim Rice along with the musical score created by Hans Zimmer with choral arrangements by Lebo M. Directed by Julie Taymor, the musical features actors in animal costumes as well...

  • 2004 Musicals in Concert II
  • 2004 Musicals in Ahoy' II
  • 2004 - 2005 Passion
    Passion (musical)
    Passion is a musical adapted from Ettore Scola's film Passione d'Amore . The book is by James Lapine, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Central subjects include obsession, beauty, power, manipulation, passion, illness, and love...

  • 2004 - 2005 Crazy for You
    Crazy for You
    Crazy for You is a musical with a book by Ken Ludwig, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. Billed as "The New Gershwin Musical Comedy", it is largely based on the songwriting team’s 1930 musical, Girl Crazy, but interpolates songs from several other productions as well...

  • 2004 - 2005 De Jantjes
  • 2005 - 2006 Beauty and the Beast
    Beauty and the Beast (musical)
    Beauty and the Beast is a musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and a book by Linda Woolverton, based on the 1991 Disney film of the same name. Seven new songs were written for the stage musical...

  • 2005 - 2006 Cabaret
    Cabaret (musical)
    Cabaret is a musical based on a book written by Christopher Isherwood, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The 1966 Broadway production became a hit and spawned a 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....

  • 2005 - 2006 Jesus Christ Superstar
    Jesus Christ Superstar
    Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started off as a rock opera concept recording before its first staging on Broadway in 1971...

  • 2006 - 2007 The Wiz
    The Wiz
    The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls and book by William F. Brown. It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of African American culture. It opened on October 21, 1974 at the Morris A...

  • 2006 - 2007 Cats
    Cats (musical)
    Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot...

  • 2006 - 2007 My Fair Lady
    My Fair Lady
    My Fair Lady is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe...

  • 2006 Musicals in Ahoy’ III
  • 2007 Fame the musical
    Fame (musical)
    A stage musical based on the 1980 musical film Fame has been staged under two titles. The first, 'Fame – The Musical' conceived and developed by David De Silva, is a musical with a book by Jose Fernandez, music by Steve Margoshes and lyrics by Jacques Levy. The musical premiered in 1988 in Miami,...

  • 2007 - 2009 Tarzan
    Tarzan (musical)
    Tarzan: The Musical is based on the Disney film of the same name and the story by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Music and lyrics are written by Phil Collins, with a book by David Henry Hwang.-Production:...

  • 2007 - 2010 Ciske de Rat - De Musical
  • 2007 - 2009 Evita
  • 2008 - 2009 Dirty Dancing
  • 2008 - 2009 Les Misérables
    Les Misérables (musical)
    Les Misérables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz , is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo....

  • 2008 - 2009 Sunset Boulevard
    Sunset Boulevard
    Sunset Boulevard is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades...

  • 2008 - 2010 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
  • 2009 - 2010 High School Musical
    High School Musical
    High School Musical is a 2006 American television film, first in the High School Musical film franchise. Upon its release on January 20, 2006, it became the most successful film that Disney Channel Original Movie ever produced, with a television sequel High School Musical 2 released in 2007 and...

  • 2009 - 2010 Mamma Mia! (national tour)
  • 2009 - 2010 Love Me Tender - All Shook up!
  • 2009 - 2010 Disney's Musical Sing-A-Long
  • 2010 - 2011 Mary Poppins
    Mary Poppins
    Mary Poppins is a series of children's books written by P. L. Travers and originally illustrated by Mary Shepard. The books centre on a magical English nanny, Mary Poppins. She is blown by the East wind to Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane, London and into the Banks' household to care for their...

  • 2010 - Petticoat!
  • 2010 - We Will Rock You
    We Will Rock You
    "We Will Rock You" is a song written by Brian May and recorded and performed by Queen for their 1977 album News of the World. Rolling Stone ranked it #330 of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004, and the RIAA placed it at #146 on its list of Songs of the Century...

  • 2010 - La Cage aux Folles
    La Cage aux Folles
    La Cage aux Folles is a musical with a book by Harvey Fierstein and lyrics and music by Jerry Herman. Based on the 1973 French play of the same name by Jean Poiret, it focuses on a gay couple: Georges, the manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and Albin, his romantic...

  • 2010 - Urinetown
    Urinetown
    Urinetown: The Musical is a satirical comedy musical, with music by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book by Kotis. It satirizes the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, and municipal politics...

  • 2011 - Zorro
    Zorro
    Zorro is a fictional character created in 1919 by New York-based pulp writer Johnston McCulley. The character has been featured in numerous books, films, television series, and other media....

  • 2011- Miss Saigon
    Miss Saigon
    Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr.. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover...

  • 2011 - Wicked
    Wicked (musical)
    Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. It is based on the Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West , a parallel novel of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and L. Frank Baum's classic story The Wonderful Wizard...


Germany

  • 2001 - 2003 Elisabeth
  • 2001 - onwards König der Löwen
  • 2002 - 2007 Mamma Mia
  • 2002 - 2003 De la Guarda
  • 2002 - 2003 Titanic
  • 2002 - 2004 Phantom der Oper
  • 2002 - 2004 Cats
  • 2003 - 2004 42nd Street
  • 2003 - 2004 Les Misérables
  • 2003 - 2005 Tanz der Vampire
  • 2003 - 2005 Aida
  • 2004 - 2006 Blue Man Group
  • 2004 - 2007 Mamma Mia
  • 2004 - 2006 Cats Tour Germany
  • 2004 - 2005 Pinkelstadt
  • 2005 - 2006 3 Musketiere
  • 2005 - 2006 Elisabeth
  • 2005 - 2006 Phantom der Oper
  • 2005 Wie einst im Mai
  • 2005 Sensation White
  • 2005 - 2007 Aida Tour Germany
  • 2005 Best of Musical
  • 2005 Sams
  • 2005 - 2006 Die Schöne und das Biest
  • 2005 - 2006 Die Drei von der Tankstelle
  • 2006 3 Musketiere
  • 2006 Nonnsens
  • 2006 Dirty Dancing
  • 2006 Sensation White
  • 2006 - onwards Mamma Mia!
  • 2006 - onwards Tanz der Vampire
  • 2006 - 2007 Die Schöne und das Biest
  • 2006 - onwards Blue Man Group
  • 2007 - onwards Blue Man Group
  • 2007 Best of Musical
  • 2007 - onwards Mamma Mia!
  • 2007 - onwards Wicked
  • 2007 - onwards Ich war noch niemals in New York

Spain

  • 2002 - Phantom of the Opera (El Fantasma de la Opera)
  • 2003 - Cabaret
  • 2003 - Cats
  • 2004 - Mamma Mia!
  • 2005 - The Graduate (El Graduado)
  • 2005 - Victor/Victoria
  • 2006 - Los Productores
  • 2007 - Jesucristo Superstar
  • 2007 - Cabaret
  • 2007 - La Bella y la Bestia

United Kingdom

Stage Entertainment
  • 2005 - 2007 Blue Man Group
  • 2007 - Fame
  • 2007 - Hairspray


Touring productions
  • 2007- 2008 Fame
  • 2007- 2008 High School Musical
  • 2007- 2007 Lady Salsa


West End co-productions include:
  • Fosse
  • Chicago
  • Spend, Spend, Spend
  • Tommy
  • West Side Story
  • The Full Monty
  • Blue Man Group

USA

Broadway
  • 1982 - Pump Boys and Dinettes
  • 1985 - 1987 Big River
  • 1987 - 1989 Into the Woods
  • 1988 - 1988 The Gospel at Colonus
  • 1991 - 1993 The Secret Garden
  • 1992 - 1995 Guys and Dolls
  • 1992 - 1993 Jelly's Last Jam
  • 1993 - 1995 The Who's Tommy
  • 1993 - 1994 Cyrano
  • 1994 - Beauty and the Beast
  • 1994 - 1994 The Best Little Whorehouse goes public
  • 1995 - 1996 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
  • 1996 - 1998 The King and I
  • 1996 - 1998 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  • 1996 - 1997 Once Upon a Mattress
  • 1997 - 2000 Titanic
  • 1997 - 1998 1776
  • 1998 - 1998 High Society
  • 1998 - 2000 Footloose
  • 1998 - 1999 Peter Pan
  • 2000 - 2000 Wrong Mountain
  • 2000 - 2001 Music Man
  • 2001 - 2001 Blast!
  • 2001 - 2005 42nd Street
  • 2001 - 2004 Urinetown
  • 2002 Into the Woods
  • 2004 Dracula


Co-production Off-Broadway
  • 2003 - 2004 Fame on 42nd Street

Russia

  • 2005 - 2006 Cats
  • 2006 - 2008 Mamma Mia!
  • 2008 - 2010 Beauty and the Beast
  • 2010 - onwards ZORRO

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