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2011

Stage Entertainment Germany announces a new original German production; Rocky - Das Musical. A co-production with Sylvester Stallone and the Klitschko brothers.
On the invitation of Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Rotterdam business community Club Rotterdam international theatre and TV producer Joop van den Ende gave an honorary lecture the so called Mandeville lecture on Thursday 19 May 2011
Patina Miller wins the 67th Annual Theatre World Awards for her role in the Broadway musical Sister Act — honoring performers making their New York stage debuts on or Off-Broadway
Hinterm Horizont, the new original German musical, opening night 13 January in Theatre am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin
Joop van den Ende receives a BID Award as entrepreneur of the year at the 2011 BID event in Amsterdam

2010

Announcing Sister Act on Broadway spring 2011
Whoopi Goldberg taking the stage as Mother Superior in Sister Act at the London Palladium
Stage Entertainment Italy opened renewed Teatro Brancaccio in Rome with Beauty and the Beast
Stage Entertainment honoured with the King William I Award
Petticoat, the new original Dutch musical, opening night 3 October in Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam
Announcement of the new original German production Hinterm Horizont with the music of Udo Lindenberg
Stage Entertainment Germany celebrates tenth anniversary
Announcement of the Teatro Brancaccio as the second theatre in Italy
Stage Entertainment received a nomination for the prestigious Dutch King William I Award
Announcement of the global roll out of Sister Act (including Hamburg and Broadway)

2009

Nutcracker on Ice in Russia, the first cooperation between Holiday on Ice and Stage Entertainment Russia
Celebrating of the 100th performance of Beauty and the Beast in Moscow on 21 January
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
Stage Entertainment Germany welcomed the 6 millionth The Lion King guest an The Theater im Hafen in Hamburg
Opening night Sister Act The Musical in the famous London Palladium
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
Beauty and the Beast sells 300,000 tickets after performing 5 months in Russia
German Live Entertainment Award for Ich war noch niemals in New York based on 20 hits by Udo Jürgens
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 on 11 October
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
The smash hit musical Hairspray in the Shaftesbury Theatre wins four Laurence Olivier Awards
Announcement of new, independent ticketing company
Two new original productions Ich will Spass! and Der Schuh des Manitu in Germany
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
Stage Entertainment sells majority of shares in ticketing company

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 Ich war noch niemals in New York with 20 hits of Udo Jürgens
Shaftesbury Theatre in the theatre district West End, London, (Fame and the award winning musical Hairspray)
Henk Kivits, new CEO of Stage Entertainment as of 1 September
Announcement of the new original production Hans Klok - The Beauty of Magic
Joop van den Ende President of the new Supervisory Board
Announcement of the new original production Ciske de Rat, opening night 5 October 2007 Koninklijk Theater Carré Amstedam

2006

Holiday on Ice starts touring Russia
Acquisition of the Bluemax Theatre in Berlin
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

Formation of Stage Entertainment France
Introduction of the new company name Stage Entertainment
Launch of TopTicketLine Russia
One millionth ticket The Lion King Netherlands
Acquisition of Austria Ticket, Austria
Launch of TopTicketLine Spain
Acquisition of Théâtre Mogador in Paris
Three millionth visitor The Lion King in Hamburg
Acquisition Metronom Theater Oberhausen
Acquisition Ticket Online
Cats, first musical production for the Russian market
Formation of Stage Entertainment Spain

2004

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

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

Formation of the German theatre company Stage Entertainment GmbH
TopTicketLine is introduced in Germany

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

Joop van den Ende buys Live Entertainment Division from Endemol
Stage Entertainment is formed

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

Cats, the first Stage Entertainment production in Belgium
Acquisition Holiday on Ice by Endemol Entertainment
Endemol Entertainment takes over Holiday on Ice

1994

TopTicketLine sells its 1,000,000th ticket in the Netherlands

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

Launch of ticketing organization TopTicketLine in the Netherlands

1988

Holiday on Ice welcomes its 250,000,000th visitor
First musical production of Joop van den Ende: Barnum

1978

Formation of Dodger Theatrical Holdings, Off Broadway New York

1970

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

1943

Holiday on Ice present their first show in Toledo, Ohio (USA)