Jon Eerd lost 18 pounds for Mother, I Want For Revue – AD.nl

video Jon Eerd dived for the musical version of Mother, I Want For Revue very fanatical in the gym. “This performance means 2.5 hours straight into it. Then you must physically quite fit. ”

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The story is then set in the 50s, but the themes are still universal. Young people who dream of a bright future, the problems they have with their parents, are in love with each other, that’s all for anyone recognizable

Van Eerd

Jon Eerd crawls for the musical again in the skin of the theaterrot John Hogendoorn, which he also starred in the eponymous hit television series. On the shelves of Eerd the coming time is a lot younger and tighter than previously eyes at home on the tube. “The ages are brought down to the musical story, so I’m a more youthful John became. Should think also, because I am the last few months many as lost 18 pounds. Three, four times a week in the gym, eat healthy, get enough sleep, I’m currently better about myself than has been the case for many years “confesses the male crowd of” Mother “in the run-up to the premiere in Utrecht Beatrix Theater.

This acquired ‘top condition’ is, according to Van Eerd (54), also decided, because these dazzling live production requires physically much from him and fellow protagonist Simone Kleinsma. “This performance means especially for us 2.5 hours straight into it. Singing, dancing, acting, show up and down stairs, in short, not all disciplines come together and as things still lay like TV recordings, is there. If you’re getting here, you have to be completely physically fit, otherwise you will yourself against. Now I can get it all, so grab your chance. So I thought, the same goes for Simone. We are just two old circus horses, which exploits in the ring so wonderful to find that they can not be outside. “

Together they play in ‘Mother’ brother and sister John and Riet Hogendoorn, as’ famous duo not and can not live without each life represent the heyday of the revue.

Heart’s
Kleinsma and Van Eerd does this combine almost down to the fulfillment an old heart’s desire. “We know each other for centuries, are also good friends, so there was always been hoping to work together. Warm weather You also think that it can provide because you know each other so well. Something extra Well, that’s been amply demonstrated at the rehearsal weeks. It is quite nice if you do not first have each other to scan, because you know exactly how another responds, have plenty of half a word to each other. That chemistry will soon suits us radiate. “

New faces
What is always welcome, but especially now in the stage version of ‘Mother’ share John Reed and is larger than in the TV story. In addition, the music plays (not just Wim Sonneveld, but also from ‘contemporaries’ as Jules de Corte, Frans Halsema and Gerard Cox) an important role. Part of the reason is the cast – From Eerd after – not maintained. Van Eerd is pleased with the many new faces as Terence van der Loo (as stagehand Bob dreams of a chance at the revue) and Christ Anne de Bruijn (as his lover Jeanne) going offer him. Fresh and fruity counterplay “It’s like a whole new and that is it, because this ‘Mother’ is primarily a real musical, with everything that goes with such a show ballet with leggy ladies with feathers to it.” The nostalgic character of “Mother” does not see Van Eerd as an obstruction to the (younger) audience towards theater.

In the TV series, we have had no problems there too, so why now? The story is then set in the 50s, but the themes are still universal. Young people who dream of a bright future, the problems they have with their parents, are in love with each other, which is all very recognizable to everyone

Premiere:. Mother, I Want The Revue, exclusively at Beatrix Theater, Utrecht, premiered Sunday.