{"id":80516,"date":"2026-04-25T13:47:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/?p=80516"},"modified":"2026-04-25T13:47:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:47:54","slug":"musical-our-jordan-rai-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/cultuur\/musical-onze-jordaan-rai-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Our Jordaan brings caf\u00e9 life to RAI Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Our Jordaan is not a sweet jukebox show, but a big, narrative musical about decades of changes in the Jordaan. Writer and director Diederik Ebbinge does not opt for individual sing-alongs, but for one life that holds everything together: that of Greet.<\/h2>\n<p>Greet is about eighty and living in a nursing home around the year 2000. From that chair, she looks back on her life as a single mother after World War II. You follow her through the poverty and frayed edges of the neighborhood in the 1950s and 1960s, the hassles with agencies, as well as the mutual aid in the streets and cafes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-83927 size-full\" title=\"our-jordan-musical-rai-theater-amsterdam_4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/onze-jordaan-musical-rai-theater-amsterdam_4.jpeg\" alt=\"our-jordan-musical-rai-theater-amsterdam_4\" width=\"1700\" height=\"1133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/onze-jordaan-musical-rai-theater-amsterdam_4.jpeg 1700w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/onze-jordaan-musical-rai-theater-amsterdam_4-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/onze-jordaan-musical-rai-theater-amsterdam_4-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/onze-jordaan-musical-rai-theater-amsterdam_4-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/onze-jordaan-musical-rai-theater-amsterdam_4-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/onze-jordaan-musical-rai-theater-amsterdam_4-18x12.jpeg 18w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/onze-jordaan-musical-rai-theater-amsterdam_4-400x267.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/app\/uploads\/onze-jordaan-musical-rai-theater-amsterdam_4-500x333.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1700px) 100vw, 1700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An important anchor in her story is the neighborhood choir De Belcanto's, founded by her husband Jopie. That choir runs like a thread through the performance. Through the songs and rehearsals, you see how such a choir became a second family for an entire neighborhood, and how that slowly changes as the neighborhood tilts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An important anchor in her story is the neighborhood choir The Bel cantos, founded by her husband Jopie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Around the series in the RAI Theater, Our Jordaan is touring other cities and the musical is also playing in theaters such as DeLaMar and venues in Dronten, Haarlem, Enschede and Almere, among others. But it is precisely in the RAI Theater, with its complete metamorphosis into Caf\u00e9 Koster and the large scale of the production, that the idea of a Jordanian pub in a modern convention venue comes together to the maximum.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Jordaan is not a sweet jukebox show, but a big, narrative musical about decades of changes in the Jordaan. Writer and director Diederik Ebbinge does not opt for individual sing-alongs, but for one life that holds everything together: that of Greet. Greet is about eighty and living in a nursing home around the year 2000. From that ... <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/cultuur\/musical-onze-jordaan-rai-theater\/\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":83925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[10974],"district":[14],"class_list":["post-80516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultuur","tag-voorstellingen-amsterdam","district-amsterdam-zuid"],"acf":{"slider":[83926],"fotograaf":"","editor":"","video":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xkf1c6OqGPE","google_360":"","instagram_code":"","subregel":"Van verzorgingshuis tot Caf\u00e9 Koster: Onze Jordaan verandert in een levensverhaal","new_in_town":false,"featured_item":false,"beste_van_amsterdam":false,"homepage_carousel":false,"cord_A":"","cord_B":"","introductie_tekst":"In het RAI Theater draait in april 2026 de Nederlandse musical Onze Jordaan van Diederik Ebbinge. Het theater wordt voor een maand omgebouwd tot het fictieve Caf\u00e9 Koster, compleet met livemuziek en een volks caf\u00e9gevoel. 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