Theatrical Musical Productions
In the field of theatrical musical productions Ferdi Bolland has contributed to a number of successful musicals in the capacity of composer & lyricist.
The brand new musical production “Falco das Musical”, based on the tumultuous life of FALCO, is a big hit in Germany, Austria & Switzerland. The musical contains all the well known Falco hit songs, wrapped around a new and original script, commemorating his 60th birthday in 2017. The large scale theatrical production had it’s premiere in January 2017 and is playing large venues to often sell out capacity and excited crowds.
The musical had it’s television launch last Christmas Day in the highly popular Helene Fischer Show, with a 10 minute excerpt from the musical. The Helene Fischer Show is the highest rated show on German television with over 6 million viewers, giving “Falco das Musical” a dream start.
Following the runaway success of the musical in 2017, the production went on a large-scale tour of Germany, Austria and Switserland in 2018 and has again returned in 2019 for another successful tour of large theaters and live venues in Germany, Austria and Switserland.
We will undoubtedly see another successful return of FALCO DAS MUSICAL in 2022 & 2023, the years in which large-scale campaigns will be launched to commemorate FALCO’s 65th birthday in 2022 and the 25th anniversary of his dying day in 2023.
“Falco – a cyber happening” – Austria, Vienna.
Cutting-edge theatrical production based on the life of legendary Austrian rapper Falco. Many of the songs written & composed by the hit songwriting team of Bolland & Bolland.
“Falco meets Amadeus’ – Germany & Austria.
Successful German musical production based on life & death of Hans Hoelzel a.k.a. Falco.
All the massive Bolland copyrights such as “Jeanny”, “Rock me Amadeus”, “Coming Home”(Jeanny part 2) and many others were the featured music for this original production. “Falco meets Amadeus” was seen by more than 1 million people in Germany alone, making it one of the most successful original German-language musical productions of all time.
“3 Musketiers” – The Netherlands, Rotterdam “Nieuwe Luxor Theater”.
Original concept & musical production of the leading international musical/theatre production company Stage Entertainment for which the music & songs were made by Ferdi Bolland and Rob Bolland. The original production made it’s worldwide première in 2003 at ‘Nieuwe Luxor Theater’ in Rotterdam and played to sell out capacity.
“3 Musketiere” – Germany, Berlin “Theater des Westens” & Stuttgart “Apollo Theater”.
From 2005 -2008 the German version of the musical had a successful run in Berlin and Stuttgart. For the German “3 Musketiere” production many new songs were especially written and composed by Bolland & Bolland. Also a number of new scenes were added and basically the production was given a high-quality facelift and transformation.
Among the many German stars featured in the cast of the show, Dutch musical-superstar Pia Douwes was the leading lady in both the Berlin and Stuttgart version of the production.“3 Musketiere” received many awards, among which ‘German musical of the year’.
The song “Engel aus Kristall”, written & composed by Ferdi Bolland, received the award for ‘Musical solo song of the year” in Germany.
“3 Musketeers' Premiere Tokyo - Japan 2011”.
In 2010 '3 Musketeers' played to sell out capacity and raving reviews in the well known Freilicht Bühne in Tecklenburg, Germany and Staatz, Austria. The show also received a record 5 Musical Awards from the leading German magazine 'Da Capo'. In November 2011 the show made it's grand premiere in Tokyo, in a large-scale stunning Japanese production.
New musical productions
Ferdi Bolland is separately working on new musical concepts, in various stages of development. We will be trying to establish partnerships with leading international musical producers in the coming years to enable some of these ideas to arrive at the factual production-stage.