When the Tivoli opens for guests 8. June, it will be without the usual performances in the glass hall theatre and the Concert hall.
instead, they can underholdningslystne look forward to 16. september, when Tivoli Rasmus Botoft in the lead pours old wine in new bottles, when the revives Tivoli Varitéen in the glass hall theatre.
Varitéen was a great success in the 60’s and 70’s, and since he worked in Tivoli as a young man, has Rasmus Botoft had a ‘boyhood dream’ to revive the genre, he says.
I worked in Tivoli, from the time I was 15 until I was 22 years old with all sorts of things, so I have had the Tivoli very under the skin. When I was about 18 years old, I read a biography of Preben Uglebjerg, who stood behind the varitéen in his time, and that’s how I learned varitéen to know.
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– It was exciting, it had been such a big thing in the 60’s and 70’s, and I also asked some in here, when I worked here, if they could remember it. So it has been a dream for me ever since to reinvent the varitéen, he says to Ekstra Bladet.
When Rasmus Botoft takes the stage in the glass hall, he gets the company of a number of as yet secret guests.
the Rasmus Botoft, during each performance, have the visits of various as yet secret guests, he says. Photo: Rasmus Flindt Pedersen
the Ambition is to create a show where no two nights are the same.
– All the ones I have asked have said yes. So it’s mega awesome, and I am very pleased to reveal the names. It will be a very mixed show, with known names, new names and international names. Coming circus performers, singers, chefs and anything is possible.
And even though the premiere was moved from april to september, it managed to Botoft to persuade all the guests to move with.
– I have just told you about my dream and vision, and I have always loved the genre, where you together across genres in the field of entertainment put together a show, he says.
For Rasmus Botoft have coronakrisen not only meant to drengedrømmen had to be put on hold for a while.
He has also had a few other jobs that have been cancelled, and it has been felt on the economy.
– I have lost some money, but I have not sought the stimulus, We considered it, but everything has not been completely quiet. I have been working on varitéen, and I have also made a number of speaks, so I thought that there were others who had more need of it, he says.
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He has also been able to mark on the industry, that much has stood still.
– All theatre and all the tv footage has been quiet. So of course, it is too bad with all the things that have been cancelled, but we have enjoyed us in the family, and it may have been a arbejdspause, which I didn’t quite know that I needed to, he says.
Fortunately, it does not come in the way of all his other plans, to varitéen is moved, and he is looking forward to be able to give the audience an experience that makes them happy, he says.
the Rasmus Botoft is particularly known for ‘Rytteriet’, as he is doing with Martin Buch. Photo: Jonas Olufson
