Category Archives: Theater

Worst Musical

Tonight I visit with a friend, HEMA the musical, the subtitle “worst musical ever” is a play on words. Department store HEMA is well-known in the Netherlands for their warm smoked sausages, or worst as we call them. It’s set … Continue reading

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Mr DeMille I’m Ready For…

Yesterday evening I and some twenty other PinkNoord members visited the Dutch version of “Zanna Don’t”, a Musical Fairy Tale. The M-Lab theater was sold out, they even sold more tickets than they had seats [!]. [Just pull up extra seats … Continue reading

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In Training

We, good friend and neighbor Corrie and I, went to the theater last night. We saw the rock-musical Next to Normal, in the Dutch version. Because of the weather we took bus and tram to get there, which also took … Continue reading

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New Series in the New Year

Sometimes a word or just a hint brings me to a subject, and in this case a new series. An email from ‘the dealer’ yesterday afternoon made me aware that maybe my order couldn’t be filled before Xmas. And since it just … Continue reading

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Keeping Up Appearances

We had an invitation for ‘one of the candlelight suppers’ but there was no ‘Royal Doulton with the hand painted Periwinkles’ to be seen on the table. Last Monday, good friend and neighbor Corrie and I went for dinner before … Continue reading

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La Cage…

I received an email from the theater where I complained about the view from the balcony. They gave me two new tickets to see the show again, this time not on the balcony but in the stalls. Both Corrie and … Continue reading

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We’re Settled…

Monday, February 14, 2011… the restaurant is booked and so is the play. Yesterday afternoon we drove, scoot-mobile and bicycle, towards the theater to book tickets for the Dutch stage version of ‘Keeping up appearances’ aka “The Bouquet residence, the lady of … Continue reading

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Break A Leg!

Last night I went with my long time friend and neighbor Corrie to the recently rebuild and re-opened DeLaMar Theater here in Amsterdam, where they showed La Cage Aux Folles aka The Birdcage. We left home two and a half … Continue reading

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