Andre Rieu Soap Part 3
On the road to New York ( January 19, 2007, Dutch TV TROS)
Translated by Ineke Cornelissen/Sonja.
Andre in the hotel lounge:
“Kerstin, shall I bring you something? Yes please! What? A latte please. Just latte? Yes, coffee latte. Okay!!
Andre walks across the street to get to the Starbucks coffee shop.
In the coffee shop. Andre: “Latte macchiato and latte, please. Yes, that are camera’s”.
The servant: I asked what the camera’s are for.
Andre: I don’t know. Servant: You are not filming are you? It is forbidden to film here. It is the company policy.
Servant to Andre: "Here you go, honey" Andre: (taking the coffee) Okay, thank you very much. Andre walks
away, looks in the camera and says:" It is not allowed, It is against the law!”.
Andre is on the phone while he walks back outside with the coffee. Hello, if I am awake already? Man, I already
practiced for three hours. What time? 11.30 am, I believe.
Andre enters the hotel, says to Kerstin: “Come over here and let us sit down for a while” (in the meantime he
continues his phone call!)
Andre: “My personal concept, also in normal life, is to make contact with people. I want to look them into the eyes,
see “who are you”. Can we “pair”, I think that is what it is called what computers or mobiles do nowadays. I like to
have contact with people whether it is one person or 10.000. Let’s do something nice together this evening
(pictures of the audience). We see Andre on stage shouting: For everybody in Pedina: “The White Horse Inn”!
(the tenors and sopranos sing).
During the Radetzky March (most of the time the last number before the intermission) we can see two crew (John
van den Boorn and Bert Claessens.) members pulling the ropes that let the balloons come down.
At the end of the show we see Andre and Jet Gelens backstage, polishing their violins.
Andre: So, Jetje, (je is the Dutch diminutive often used as pet name) here we go again, a nice cleaning.
At home I always clean the kitchen counters.
Jet: I clean the kitchen
To Jet: And the floor do you clean that too?
Jet: Yes, of course and the bathroom.
Andre: I like cleaning the stainless steel counters best, to give it a gleaming shine.
Andre: I have for the US ....all the instruments you see on stage are mine. The double basses, all the large
percussion, all instruments which need to be transported by truck. I think I possess 15 cellos, so I have three
complete sets. All of them very nice instruments.
Recently I bought violins as well. Because one time, in Japan, we had a flight... violins are no longer allowed as
hand luggage.... they have to go in the hold. Oh what a lot of problems that was … Risky and we almost had to
cancel the concert that evening, I do not want to have that happen again..
So I decided to buy violins for everyone as well.
We see Andre backstage after the polishing. (Andre puts the clean violin first into a satin bag, before he puts it
into a traveling case and then into the violin case. There are two violins in the case. Andre's and Jet's, Jet is the
concert master.) Andre, talking about the violin: Oh, dear he looks very nice again. (He?? Andre did say he even
though Andre always says that his violin is a she) So, he has done his best. Tomorrow we are going to practice
again..…..
Andre: I don’t see my violin as a child. More like a part of my body. That is how I see it. Studying an instrument
works addicting. You can compare it with a ballet dancer or an acrobat. They have to do stretching exercises
every day to keep in shape. It is a circle, you cannot do otherwise. At the end you get addicted, you start to
enjoy the long practicing… You start to enjoy playing the scales all the time. Ask a ballet dancer. With a smile
they’ll suffer and do painful exercises.
While Andre is practicing his scales he says to the cameraman: If you really want to make a soap, you should be
here for the next hour and listen to all the practicing. That is how it is.
Another Andre comes in the picture: Andre Rossow, the cook. (I think he is a German). He is ordering: 30
breakfast rolls two rye breads without caraway seeds. Just plain rye bread.
Cook: This is the guy who will go shopping with me. We are going to a very large store to buy fish and meat and
the lot.
In the parking: Hi Bob!
Bob: More cameras?
Cook: Yes, everywhere! This is a receipt you should keep. It was in the box. Otherwise you will miss 10 dollars.
What time is it now? 10 O’clock?
Bob: 10.20 am.
Cook: O my God, is it that late already? Okay, Check that first. We will go in the next 15 minutes!
Andre: at the phone: “When I was in a classical orchestra a long time ago, I always used to look at all the pretty
girls in the audience. So I had something to look at, while I was playing. That is what I still do. O yes. Andre
pulling face. You don’t??
Andre telling to Kerstin: That was an interviewer. I told him about looking at the girls in the audience. He said: So,
you like girls? I said: Yes, don’t you? He answered: No, I don’t!! And then he was completely of balance!!
Andre, still on the phone: O, yesterday happened something very funny! We were stuck in a traffic jam, and it
was not a little traffic jam, it was terrible, we were stuck for 4 hours! My road manager finally called the local
police.
Kerstin: (the road manager): Yes, I finally got “dispatcher 13” on the phone, she is apparently not allowed to give
her real name. Luckily she knew of Andre and the orchestra, she thought it was great, and she really did
everything she could to help.
Andre, on the phone, She (Kerstin) said can you help us, and she (the dispatcher) answered ah, it if for Andre
Rieu,
Kerstin: "I really spoke to 911, for she had to interrupt the conversation regularly for real emergency calls.
Andre on the phone: Than the police came, we could pass the whole traffic jam, like VIPs, and we were just in
time to perform in Cleveland. I want to thank all American police officers who did this for us.
(I was stuck in the same traffic jam, too bad I was not a bit closer to Andre so I could have followed behind
them. I did miss the concert. There had been a major accident and they had closed the freeway. Traffic was
at a stand-still. The reason Andre was able to get passed the traffic jam is that the left lane had been closed for
work and you could not drive on it. They must have made an exception for Andre's buses)
We see pictures of the girls doing their make-up in the bus. That night they were late, so they had to hurry with
their meal and dresses.
Carla while eating: I should be doing my hair and make-up right now, hurry, hurry.
Roger Diederen and Rene Henket (eating): Something like this never happened before. Just a coincidence. Our
drivers are very punctual and check traffic and work on the roads before each trip. This was not to be foreseen.
Unfortunately it happens. You can start to stress, but that will not solve the traffic jam.
Astrid Gordijn and Linda Custers: The boys have an easier life!
Astrid Gordijn: So, I am ready, except for my shoes. Have a look! (she shows boots under her romantic gown)
Pictures backstage: Teun Ramaekers and Nathalie Bolle playing together one flute, having a lot of fun.
Andre is practicing: How was that Limburg song, not the Limburg anthem, that other song…
Roos Aerts (stage manager) is knocking on doors: 20 minutes!!
Andre: Oh, I am so embarrassed, I don’t know that song any more. I am really bad at......Tuur (Arthur
Cordewener) What is the melody of “wie schoen us Limburg is”?
Pierre and Suzan come through the corridors. Suzan is rubbing her shoulder. Pierre: I am looking for a cream
against burns. She has burned herself a bit. Unfortunately we don’t have it with us.
Cameraman to Suzan: You have burned yourself? Where?
Suzan: You don’t want to know, not now! (and she hurries away giggling).
Andre and Pierre (and the whole orchestra) stand by the entrance of the hall, waiting for the entry of the
Gladiators to start the show. Some women want to take pictures of them. Pierre says jokingly: My name is Rieu,
too is it not. A picture together? Andre and Pierre pose together.
Andre is nervous, he squeezes Pierre’s arm, and than music sounds…… off they go, the concert has started.
We see supermarket Path Mark. We see Andre the cook, collecting bread.
Andre: “Good morning gentlemen”….No onion bread, ah, cheese rolls and we take the ciabatta’s. One, two,
three”. Again trouble about filming: “Okay, we can go on. This is the manager, he is giving us a phone number,
we are not allowed to film inside. We have to get permission from the management first”. To the camera man:
“Can you please stop filming?” We have to ask first if we are allowed to do this. They always have major
problems if you just go around here with a camera.
(The video of Andre Rieu comes on the screen, saying… “It is against the law!”.)
Andre, looking at a new violin, says: Ah, you marked it again with that small Indian pattern.
Andre: My own violin I would say is more a girlfriend than a child. A child is a very different relationship as a
girlfriend. A girl friend (gestures the shape of a woman) is cherished and unique and you cannot very easily
replace her. I often buy new violins, also because I can use them for the orchestra. I buy them here and there,
mostly new ones, because I find it interesting and sometimes I discover the finest instruments.
This is Peter Mach from Canada, a violin maker. I already have several violins from him. This is the 6th violin I will
buy from him. They get better every year. Andre tries out the violin, then hands her to Boris to play on her.
My first Stradivarius was the second he built in 1667. Small, almost an Amati. Amati was Stradivarius’ teacher,
around 1600, a long time ago. And this one I have, is from 1732, nearly at the end of his life. There is a lifetime of
experience in between the two violins. By accident I discovered this one in Vienna. A violin builder approached
me: “May I show you this instrument…” I am always interested in those offers. Every week I get offers “I have
found a Stradivarius in my attic. Are you interested?” I never say No, but my office knows they first have to get
pictures and certificates first and if everything is okay, than I will get involved. I cannot handle all initial offers.
Stradivarius never made that many violins.
To Frank: which one sounded better? Frank: That one, that one feels good in the hand too. A very nice one.
Andre to Peter Mach: Every new violin gets better and better. If you go on like that, after the 10th violin you have
created a Stradivarius!
Andre the cook again outside the supermarket. He speaks Dutch with a German accent: I bought food and drinks
for 110 persons. I spent $ 2400. That it normal. I still have to spend $ 300 / 400 for table cloths, flowers and then
we are ready, steady to go.
They really are different than in Europe, I think. They help you, if you spend a lot of money here, they help you
as a valued customer. It is good we get some help from them.
Backstage Frank Steijns sees Roel van Veggel (Management, Roel will run the New York office it the Chrysler
building), and shows him the new violin. Roel: Is that the violin from the man over there? Frank: Yes, he is a
Canadian violin maker. Roel: Andre is always very pleased with him. Frank: This violin was just finished today.
Never played on before. Sounds really beautiful.
Andre is backstage tuning the orchestra. Please come closer. Something breaks on the violin??? Andre says:
we have to check this later on.
Andre: A Stradivarius is very expensive. Millions of Euro’s. There are only a few in the world. I am lucky, that
because I have worked very hard and I can afford the luxury of buying one. I don’t see it as private property. I
am a “caretaker” for the next generation. I think all violin players with their heart on the right place, have the same
attitude, whether you have a Stradivarius or a Guarneri. They are all unique and fine handcrafted pieces. Every
day I enjoy holding something made by that man, a big responsibility… but a wonderful feeling.
Teun standing in front of a few big yellow cases, asking the camera crew: Does one of you carry reading
glasses? Or do you have good eyes? I need to open this lock but I forgot my glasses. Can you open it? When
the cameraman continues filming, Teun says (friendly): He, lout/ rotter?? , put down that camera and open that
lock for me! Come on open that case, I do not have my glasses.
Andre, I do not have my glasses with me.
Andre showing a violin to Rene Henket: This is a Mach. Yes, but what number is it? Can you see which number
it is, it should be written here. (Rene is looking). Here somewhere. AR and a number….
We see Bob working for the catering, mumbling to himself. “These guys are following me all day long (the camera
crew), I hope it is not the FBI or the CIA!”
Cook Andre to the camera crew: “Okay, I would say: It was a pleasure meeting you guys and now…. Have
something to eat. Thanks a lot!”
In the kitchen after dinner: Andre Rieu to cook Lars Maurer (in German): It was very delicious again. Next time,
don’t serve all the best items at the same time, for otherwise….. (Andre shows he is becoming too fat, by closing
his jacket over his stomach). He asks “Where is Andre (the cook)?”
Lars: He is outside.
Andre startled: is he sick??
Lars: No, but if you are inside for the whole day you need a bit of fresh air.
Andre: O yes, I understand.
We see Andre the cook outside, building a dam in a small river.
“Tonight we want to have really fresh fish, so I am building this little dam. Now I can catch the fish barehanded,
like Winnitou, the Indian. Very nice!
Lars Maurer: We are all crazy, you really need to be a bit crazy to do this job. This is not normal cooking. Of
course water is boiling at 100 degrees here as well, but we have to work 16 / 17 hours a day. You need to bring a
lot of enthusiasm to enjoy this job.
Linda Custers at table: We are all crazy, so what?.
Kalki and Suzan: How Andre is? (about Cook Andre). Cannot be put in words. Andre is Andre, there is no second.
Linda Custers: Funny, friendly, good laughs. And he is really a good cook!
Manoe Konings: Much, very much and very delicious.
Frank Steijns: He is a great comedian and a good cook. He speaks 5 languages.
Manoe: A total lunatic, but we like that. We are all a little nuts. If you work here you must be!
Cook Andre (in the parking): Hello! We are here in Atlantic City. Hello Cleveland, Hello Atlantic City.
Andre Rieu acts if he is beating cook Andre on his head.
Cook Andre: I am happily disturbed…..
Big applause for the cooks!!!
Backstage we see Carla and Suzan. Suzan is rubbing her shoulder.
About burning her armpit. “Don’t film this armpit. I burned it. It is painful. A new American depilatory creme. Went
completely wrong. I should have never tried this just before a show. Darn, I want to say something different.
Yep. Here we go again.
(Suzan and Carla from behind the scenes are singing Funiculi Funicula with the tenors, who are on stage. At the
end they are laughing, clutching hands).
Pictures from the audience.
A woman: I had to wait 10 years to attend a concert. I am originally from Germany, Eastern Germany. We could
not afford tickets there. Now, 10 years later, I went to Baltimore to see them live.( I live in America for 5 years
now). A dream came true. Absolutely.
Man: He makes you feel very special. You want to react with the band. You feel like you are a big family.
Girl: Andre is very, very cool, It is great music.
Couple: Wonderful! Man: This is my wedding present to her.
Woman: I got tears in my eyes. My family is from Nova Scotia. We are Scottish. When the bagpipe started I
almost went to the floor…. It is really hard to explain. It is overwhelming and beautiful. There is none in the world
like them! (Dan Lycan is standing next to her). Manoe is playing Auld Lang Syne on the bagpipe.
Next week part 4.
A very loud bang sounds, Andre: Look, that plane just touched the roof with its wheels, I think. To Kerstin: What
was that now? Andre yes, that was that airplane.
On the road to New York ( January 19, 2007, Dutch TV TROS)
Translated by Ineke Cornelissen/Sonja.
Andre in the hotel lounge:
“Kerstin, shall I bring you something? Yes please! What? A latte please. Just latte? Yes, coffee latte. Okay!!
Andre walks across the street to get to the Starbucks coffee shop.
In the coffee shop. Andre: “Latte macchiato and latte, please. Yes, that are camera’s”.
The servant: I asked what the camera’s are for.
Andre: I don’t know. Servant: You are not filming are you? It is forbidden to film here. It is the company policy.
Servant to Andre: "Here you go, honey" Andre: (taking the coffee) Okay, thank you very much. Andre walks
away, looks in the camera and says:" It is not allowed, It is against the law!”.
Andre is on the phone while he walks back outside with the coffee. Hello, if I am awake already? Man, I already
practiced for three hours. What time? 11.30 am, I believe.
Andre enters the hotel, says to Kerstin: “Come over here and let us sit down for a while” (in the meantime he
continues his phone call!)
Andre: “My personal concept, also in normal life, is to make contact with people. I want to look them into the eyes,
see “who are you”. Can we “pair”, I think that is what it is called what computers or mobiles do nowadays. I like to
have contact with people whether it is one person or 10.000. Let’s do something nice together this evening
(pictures of the audience). We see Andre on stage shouting: For everybody in Pedina: “The White Horse Inn”!
(the tenors and sopranos sing).
During the Radetzky March (most of the time the last number before the intermission) we can see two crew (John
van den Boorn and Bert Claessens.) members pulling the ropes that let the balloons come down.
At the end of the show we see Andre and Jet Gelens backstage, polishing their violins.
Andre: So, Jetje, (je is the Dutch diminutive often used as pet name) here we go again, a nice cleaning.
At home I always clean the kitchen counters.
Jet: I clean the kitchen
To Jet: And the floor do you clean that too?
Jet: Yes, of course and the bathroom.
Andre: I like cleaning the stainless steel counters best, to give it a gleaming shine.
Andre: I have for the US ....all the instruments you see on stage are mine. The double basses, all the large
percussion, all instruments which need to be transported by truck. I think I possess 15 cellos, so I have three
complete sets. All of them very nice instruments.
Recently I bought violins as well. Because one time, in Japan, we had a flight... violins are no longer allowed as
hand luggage.... they have to go in the hold. Oh what a lot of problems that was … Risky and we almost had to
cancel the concert that evening, I do not want to have that happen again..
So I decided to buy violins for everyone as well.
We see Andre backstage after the polishing. (Andre puts the clean violin first into a satin bag, before he puts it
into a traveling case and then into the violin case. There are two violins in the case. Andre's and Jet's, Jet is the
concert master.) Andre, talking about the violin: Oh, dear he looks very nice again. (He?? Andre did say he even
though Andre always says that his violin is a she) So, he has done his best. Tomorrow we are going to practice
again..…..
Andre: I don’t see my violin as a child. More like a part of my body. That is how I see it. Studying an instrument
works addicting. You can compare it with a ballet dancer or an acrobat. They have to do stretching exercises
every day to keep in shape. It is a circle, you cannot do otherwise. At the end you get addicted, you start to
enjoy the long practicing… You start to enjoy playing the scales all the time. Ask a ballet dancer. With a smile
they’ll suffer and do painful exercises.
While Andre is practicing his scales he says to the cameraman: If you really want to make a soap, you should be
here for the next hour and listen to all the practicing. That is how it is.
Another Andre comes in the picture: Andre Rossow, the cook. (I think he is a German). He is ordering: 30
breakfast rolls two rye breads without caraway seeds. Just plain rye bread.
Cook: This is the guy who will go shopping with me. We are going to a very large store to buy fish and meat and
the lot.
In the parking: Hi Bob!
Bob: More cameras?
Cook: Yes, everywhere! This is a receipt you should keep. It was in the box. Otherwise you will miss 10 dollars.
What time is it now? 10 O’clock?
Bob: 10.20 am.
Cook: O my God, is it that late already? Okay, Check that first. We will go in the next 15 minutes!
Andre: at the phone: “When I was in a classical orchestra a long time ago, I always used to look at all the pretty
girls in the audience. So I had something to look at, while I was playing. That is what I still do. O yes. Andre
pulling face. You don’t??
Andre telling to Kerstin: That was an interviewer. I told him about looking at the girls in the audience. He said: So,
you like girls? I said: Yes, don’t you? He answered: No, I don’t!! And then he was completely of balance!!
Andre, still on the phone: O, yesterday happened something very funny! We were stuck in a traffic jam, and it
was not a little traffic jam, it was terrible, we were stuck for 4 hours! My road manager finally called the local
police.
Kerstin: (the road manager): Yes, I finally got “dispatcher 13” on the phone, she is apparently not allowed to give
her real name. Luckily she knew of Andre and the orchestra, she thought it was great, and she really did
everything she could to help.
Andre, on the phone, She (Kerstin) said can you help us, and she (the dispatcher) answered ah, it if for Andre
Rieu,
Kerstin: "I really spoke to 911, for she had to interrupt the conversation regularly for real emergency calls.
Andre on the phone: Than the police came, we could pass the whole traffic jam, like VIPs, and we were just in
time to perform in Cleveland. I want to thank all American police officers who did this for us.
(I was stuck in the same traffic jam, too bad I was not a bit closer to Andre so I could have followed behind
them. I did miss the concert. There had been a major accident and they had closed the freeway. Traffic was
at a stand-still. The reason Andre was able to get passed the traffic jam is that the left lane had been closed for
work and you could not drive on it. They must have made an exception for Andre's buses)
We see pictures of the girls doing their make-up in the bus. That night they were late, so they had to hurry with
their meal and dresses.
Carla while eating: I should be doing my hair and make-up right now, hurry, hurry.
Roger Diederen and Rene Henket (eating): Something like this never happened before. Just a coincidence. Our
drivers are very punctual and check traffic and work on the roads before each trip. This was not to be foreseen.
Unfortunately it happens. You can start to stress, but that will not solve the traffic jam.
Astrid Gordijn and Linda Custers: The boys have an easier life!
Astrid Gordijn: So, I am ready, except for my shoes. Have a look! (she shows boots under her romantic gown)
Pictures backstage: Teun Ramaekers and Nathalie Bolle playing together one flute, having a lot of fun.
Andre is practicing: How was that Limburg song, not the Limburg anthem, that other song…
Roos Aerts (stage manager) is knocking on doors: 20 minutes!!
Andre: Oh, I am so embarrassed, I don’t know that song any more. I am really bad at......Tuur (Arthur
Cordewener) What is the melody of “wie schoen us Limburg is”?
Pierre and Suzan come through the corridors. Suzan is rubbing her shoulder. Pierre: I am looking for a cream
against burns. She has burned herself a bit. Unfortunately we don’t have it with us.
Cameraman to Suzan: You have burned yourself? Where?
Suzan: You don’t want to know, not now! (and she hurries away giggling).
Andre and Pierre (and the whole orchestra) stand by the entrance of the hall, waiting for the entry of the
Gladiators to start the show. Some women want to take pictures of them. Pierre says jokingly: My name is Rieu,
too is it not. A picture together? Andre and Pierre pose together.
Andre is nervous, he squeezes Pierre’s arm, and than music sounds…… off they go, the concert has started.
We see supermarket Path Mark. We see Andre the cook, collecting bread.
Andre: “Good morning gentlemen”….No onion bread, ah, cheese rolls and we take the ciabatta’s. One, two,
three”. Again trouble about filming: “Okay, we can go on. This is the manager, he is giving us a phone number,
we are not allowed to film inside. We have to get permission from the management first”. To the camera man:
“Can you please stop filming?” We have to ask first if we are allowed to do this. They always have major
problems if you just go around here with a camera.
(The video of Andre Rieu comes on the screen, saying… “It is against the law!”.)
Andre, looking at a new violin, says: Ah, you marked it again with that small Indian pattern.
Andre: My own violin I would say is more a girlfriend than a child. A child is a very different relationship as a
girlfriend. A girl friend (gestures the shape of a woman) is cherished and unique and you cannot very easily
replace her. I often buy new violins, also because I can use them for the orchestra. I buy them here and there,
mostly new ones, because I find it interesting and sometimes I discover the finest instruments.
This is Peter Mach from Canada, a violin maker. I already have several violins from him. This is the 6th violin I will
buy from him. They get better every year. Andre tries out the violin, then hands her to Boris to play on her.
My first Stradivarius was the second he built in 1667. Small, almost an Amati. Amati was Stradivarius’ teacher,
around 1600, a long time ago. And this one I have, is from 1732, nearly at the end of his life. There is a lifetime of
experience in between the two violins. By accident I discovered this one in Vienna. A violin builder approached
me: “May I show you this instrument…” I am always interested in those offers. Every week I get offers “I have
found a Stradivarius in my attic. Are you interested?” I never say No, but my office knows they first have to get
pictures and certificates first and if everything is okay, than I will get involved. I cannot handle all initial offers.
Stradivarius never made that many violins.
To Frank: which one sounded better? Frank: That one, that one feels good in the hand too. A very nice one.
Andre to Peter Mach: Every new violin gets better and better. If you go on like that, after the 10th violin you have
created a Stradivarius!
Andre the cook again outside the supermarket. He speaks Dutch with a German accent: I bought food and drinks
for 110 persons. I spent $ 2400. That it normal. I still have to spend $ 300 / 400 for table cloths, flowers and then
we are ready, steady to go.
They really are different than in Europe, I think. They help you, if you spend a lot of money here, they help you
as a valued customer. It is good we get some help from them.
Backstage Frank Steijns sees Roel van Veggel (Management, Roel will run the New York office it the Chrysler
building), and shows him the new violin. Roel: Is that the violin from the man over there? Frank: Yes, he is a
Canadian violin maker. Roel: Andre is always very pleased with him. Frank: This violin was just finished today.
Never played on before. Sounds really beautiful.
Andre is backstage tuning the orchestra. Please come closer. Something breaks on the violin??? Andre says:
we have to check this later on.
Andre: A Stradivarius is very expensive. Millions of Euro’s. There are only a few in the world. I am lucky, that
because I have worked very hard and I can afford the luxury of buying one. I don’t see it as private property. I
am a “caretaker” for the next generation. I think all violin players with their heart on the right place, have the same
attitude, whether you have a Stradivarius or a Guarneri. They are all unique and fine handcrafted pieces. Every
day I enjoy holding something made by that man, a big responsibility… but a wonderful feeling.
Teun standing in front of a few big yellow cases, asking the camera crew: Does one of you carry reading
glasses? Or do you have good eyes? I need to open this lock but I forgot my glasses. Can you open it? When
the cameraman continues filming, Teun says (friendly): He, lout/ rotter?? , put down that camera and open that
lock for me! Come on open that case, I do not have my glasses.
Andre, I do not have my glasses with me.
Andre showing a violin to Rene Henket: This is a Mach. Yes, but what number is it? Can you see which number
it is, it should be written here. (Rene is looking). Here somewhere. AR and a number….
We see Bob working for the catering, mumbling to himself. “These guys are following me all day long (the camera
crew), I hope it is not the FBI or the CIA!”
Cook Andre to the camera crew: “Okay, I would say: It was a pleasure meeting you guys and now…. Have
something to eat. Thanks a lot!”
In the kitchen after dinner: Andre Rieu to cook Lars Maurer (in German): It was very delicious again. Next time,
don’t serve all the best items at the same time, for otherwise….. (Andre shows he is becoming too fat, by closing
his jacket over his stomach). He asks “Where is Andre (the cook)?”
Lars: He is outside.
Andre startled: is he sick??
Lars: No, but if you are inside for the whole day you need a bit of fresh air.
Andre: O yes, I understand.
We see Andre the cook outside, building a dam in a small river.
“Tonight we want to have really fresh fish, so I am building this little dam. Now I can catch the fish barehanded,
like Winnitou, the Indian. Very nice!
Lars Maurer: We are all crazy, you really need to be a bit crazy to do this job. This is not normal cooking. Of
course water is boiling at 100 degrees here as well, but we have to work 16 / 17 hours a day. You need to bring a
lot of enthusiasm to enjoy this job.
Linda Custers at table: We are all crazy, so what?.
Kalki and Suzan: How Andre is? (about Cook Andre). Cannot be put in words. Andre is Andre, there is no second.
Linda Custers: Funny, friendly, good laughs. And he is really a good cook!
Manoe Konings: Much, very much and very delicious.
Frank Steijns: He is a great comedian and a good cook. He speaks 5 languages.
Manoe: A total lunatic, but we like that. We are all a little nuts. If you work here you must be!
Cook Andre (in the parking): Hello! We are here in Atlantic City. Hello Cleveland, Hello Atlantic City.
Andre Rieu acts if he is beating cook Andre on his head.
Cook Andre: I am happily disturbed…..
Big applause for the cooks!!!
Backstage we see Carla and Suzan. Suzan is rubbing her shoulder.
About burning her armpit. “Don’t film this armpit. I burned it. It is painful. A new American depilatory creme. Went
completely wrong. I should have never tried this just before a show. Darn, I want to say something different.
Yep. Here we go again.
(Suzan and Carla from behind the scenes are singing Funiculi Funicula with the tenors, who are on stage. At the
end they are laughing, clutching hands).
Pictures from the audience.
A woman: I had to wait 10 years to attend a concert. I am originally from Germany, Eastern Germany. We could
not afford tickets there. Now, 10 years later, I went to Baltimore to see them live.( I live in America for 5 years
now). A dream came true. Absolutely.
Man: He makes you feel very special. You want to react with the band. You feel like you are a big family.
Girl: Andre is very, very cool, It is great music.
Couple: Wonderful! Man: This is my wedding present to her.
Woman: I got tears in my eyes. My family is from Nova Scotia. We are Scottish. When the bagpipe started I
almost went to the floor…. It is really hard to explain. It is overwhelming and beautiful. There is none in the world
like them! (Dan Lycan is standing next to her). Manoe is playing Auld Lang Syne on the bagpipe.
Next week part 4.
A very loud bang sounds, Andre: Look, that plane just touched the roof with its wheels, I think. To Kerstin: What
was that now? Andre yes, that was that airplane.
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