Brief synopsis
After the date comes the wedding
Bank teller Bob gets down on one knee to ask dog groomer Jenny for her hand. We follow Bob and Jenny from the proposal to the wedding night. And because arranging a wedding is not easy, the two decide to put the organisation in the hands of Koos, a wedding planner with the company ‘Ja, ik wil’. But while Koos is busy organising the perfect wedding to the point of hysteria, he also confronts Bob and Jenny with the important questions surrounding a commitment like marriage.
What does marriage still say in an age when complete strangers marry each other on TV, only to divorce three weeks later? What does marriage actually say about love? And what do all those made-up traditions say at all about the love you feel? And then those thousand-and-one decisions…
If you survive your own wedding, it must be true love.
About ‘Ja, ik wil’
“Ja, ik wil!” will be the sequel to the successful musical “Blind Date”, which was shown in Dutch theatres in autumn 2022.
That “Blind Date” was liked is proven by the 8 Musical Award nominations and the 3 cashings, the film adaptation to be shown in cinemas in October 2024 under the title “Skirt Night” and planned premieres of the musical in Belgium and Germany
Creatives
| Direction: | Joep Onderlinden |
| Script and lyrics: | Allard Blom |
| Music: | Sam Verhoeven |
| Choreography: | Ivo Chundro |
| Musical Direction and Arrangemennts: |
Frans Heemskerk |
| Set and Costume design: | Joris Van Veldhoven |
| Lighting design: | Coen van der Hoeven |
| Production | De Theater BV |
Productions
“Ja, ik wil!” will premiere at Amsterdam’s DeLaMar on Sunday 2 March 2025.
Also in this version, Freek Bartels and Brigitte Heitzer reappear as Bob and Jenny and Paul Groot joins the cast.
The production will tour the Netherlands until mid-June 2025.
