Stage Entertainment Company History

2010

Petticoat, the new original Dutch musical, opening night 3 October in Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam
Stage Entertainment Germany celebrates tenth anniversary
Announcement of the new original German production Hinterm Horizont with the music of Udo Lindenberg
Stage Entertainment honoured with the King William I Award
Announcement of the global roll out of Sister Act (including Hamburg and Broadway)
Announcement of the Teatro Brancaccio as the second theatre in Italy
Stage Entertainment received a nomination for the prestigious Dutch King William I Award

2009

Nutcracker on Ice in Russia, the first cooperation between Holiday on Ice and Stage Entertainment Russia
Opening of Teatro Nazionale in Milan, Stage Entertainment's first theatre in Italy. The first production is Beauty and the Beast.
The Lion King: 50 million visitors worldwide
Opening night Sister Act The Musical in the famous London Palladium
Stage Entertainment Germany welcomed the 6 millionth The Lion King guest an The Theater im Hafen in Hamburg
Joop van den Ende awarded 'Hamburger of the Year 2009'
Stage Music label
Launch of the third production of a musical, Zorro, in the famous Folies Bergère in Paris
German Live Entertainment Award for Ich war noch niemals in New York based on 20 hits by Udo Jürgens
Beauty and the Beast sells 300,000 tickets after performing 5 months in Russia
Renovation Teatro Nazionale Milan Italy
Russia: Beauty and the Beast celebrates its 100th performance in the MDM Theatre Moscow

2008

Opening night Beauty and the Beast October 11th, MDM Theatre Moscow
Premiere Dinnershow of Dreams from Wentink Events in Studio, Hilversum, The Netherlands
TPi Award Bart Clement 'Set Designer of the Year' for Holiday On Ice show Spirit
Le Roi Lion, the succes musical in the renovated Théâtre Mogador in Paris, receives three Molière Awards
Two new original productions Ich will Spass! and Der Schuh des Manitu in Germany
Announcement of new, independent ticketing company
The smash hit musical Hairspray in the Shaftesbury Theatre wins four Laurence Olivier Awards
Stage Entertainment sells majority of shares in ticketing company
The Lion King in Theater im Hafen in Hamburg. sells a record number of 5,000,000 tickets in Germany
Acquisition of See Tickets, United Kingdom

2007

Six nominations at the Molière Awards for the French production of Cabaret
Launch of the second French production in Paris at the Théâtre Mogador, Le Roi Lion
Opening of Stage Entertainment Barcelona, Spain
Announcement of the new original production Hans Klok - The Beauty of Magic
Henk Kivits, new CEO of Stage Entertainment as of 1 September
Shaftesbury Theatre in the theatre district West End, London, (Fame and the award winning musical Hairspray)
Announcement of the new original production Ciske de Rat, opening night 5 October 2007 Koninklijk Theater Carré Amstedam
Announcement of the new original production Ich war noch niemals in New York with 20 hits of Udo Jürgens
Joop van den Ende President of the new Supervisory Board

2006

The first activity from Stage Entertainment France, opening first show Cabaret in Les Folies Bergère in Paris, France
Acquisition of Degroep & Waerts Eventmanagement, The Netherlands
Acquisition of Adam Spiegel Productions, England
Acquisition of sherpa.be, Belgium

2005

2004

Launch of Stage Entertainment Russia
Launch of the event organization Stage Events in the Netherlands, located in the ECA building in Aalsmeer
Celebration of 100th anniversary of the Circustheater , the Netherlands
Joint venture with Littlestar (Mamma Mia!)
Opening New World Stages theatre complex in New York

2003

Wentink Events received Big E-award for a show in Theme Park De Efteling in the Netherlands
Joint venture with CIE España
Acquisition of the Theater des Westens, Berlin
Start of the Joop van den Ende Academy, institute for the education of young musical talents in Hamburg

2002

Acquisition of Theater am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin
Acquisition of Apollo Theater and Palladium Theater in Stuttgart
Opening London office
Together with Dodger Stage Holding Theatricals, Joop van den Ende received five Tony Awards for Into the Woods and Urinetown
Acquisition of the Operettenhaus in Hamburg
300,000,000th visitors to Holiday on Ice
Acquisition Theater Neue Flora in Hamburg

2001

Joop van den Ende, together with Dodger Stage Holding Theatricals, receives two Tony Awards for 42nd Street

2000

1999

Wentink Events received Big E-award for a show in Theme Park De Efteling in the Netherlands
Opening of the second Dutch theatre, Beatrix Theater in Utrecht with the musical Chicago

1998

1997

Tony Award for �Best Musical� for the musical Titanic
Endemol Entertainment acquires an interest in Dodger Theatricals. The two companies to become Dodger Endemol Theatricals.

1996

1994

1993

Première of the first Dutch open-ended musical, The Phantom of the Opera, in the Circustheater in Scheveningen, the Netherlands

1991

The Circustheater in Scheveningen, the Netherlands is bought and thoroughly renovated
Les Misérables the first large-scale international musical to be introduced to the Dutch market

1990

1988

1978

1970

�Twee op de wip�, a play with Jeroen Krabbé and Willeke Alberti. The first Dutch production of Joop van den Ende Theaterproducties

1943