- Born
- Birth nameJohannes Adrianus van den Ende
- Joop van den Ende was born on February 23, 1942 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He is a producer and writer, known for Westenwind (1999), Vrienden voor het leven (1991) and Goede tijden, slechte tijden (1990). He has been married to Janine Klijberg since 1988. They have two children.
- SpouseJanine Klijberg(1988 - present) (2 children)
- Announced that he will stop producing, on Friday, March the 17th 2000.
- Van den Ende returned to Broadway in the spring of 2011 with the musical Sister Act, a co-production with Whoopi Goldberg. This marked the beginning of a new phase in van den Ende's longstanding ambition to develop a continuous stream of original musical content.
- He is a Dutch theatrical producer, co-founder of international television production company Endemol and founder/owner of Stage Entertainment, Europe's largest live entertainment company.
- Van den Ende's early work in live entertainment received international critical acclaim. In 1995 he received five Tony Awards for the Broadway musical Titanic, which he co-produced. In 2001 he was also awarded two Tony Awards for the musical 42nd Street, and in 2002 he received two Tony Awards for his Broadway production Into the Woods, plus three more for the play Urinetown.
- He received in 2019 the Lifetime Achievement Award of the German Musical Awards, for contributions to German musical theatre.
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