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Nele Needs A Holiday: The Musical

Nele Needs A Holiday
Fri 08.02.2019 20:00 - 21:00
KVS, Brussels
KVS BOL
Past event
08.02.2019
20:00 - 21:00
Past event

Real pop stars don’t hail from Belgium. Upon this realisation, Nele moves to London. Awaiting her there: the loneliness of the metropolis, a dubious manager, and ultimately Brexit. An ode to the magnificent grandeur of unrelenting failure.

A Belgian popstar moves to London to steal the jobs of British popstars. Luckily, austerity is there to stop her. Nele Needs a Holiday: The Musical is a tongue-in-cheek pop opera about a girl called Nele who turns her life into a big international mess because she wants to be famous on the other side of the English Channel. It's a rags-to-more-rags story showing the magnificent grandeur of unrelenting failure in love, life, and a so-called career.

Nele Needs a Holiday is a dramatic songwriter based in Brussels and London – for as long as it lasts. After releasing two albums, she decided to write a musical theatre show about the unfortunate encounters she had with her own ambition. Expect theatrical show tunes and profound torch songs with an overriding eyebrow raised at the absurdity of life, brought by an all-female band meticulously trained to sing with their tongues in their cheeks.

Credits

DIRECTION ANNEMIEK VAN ELST WRITTEN BY NELE VAN DEN BROECK PRODUCTION NELE NEEDS A HOLIDAY, BIG IN BELGIUM, THEATER ROYAL PLYMOUTH & RICHARD JORDAN PRODUCTIONS WITH THE SUPPORT OF DE VLAAMSE GEMEENSCHAP & SABAM