Fred Boot

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Fred Boot (born 1965 in Groningen) is a Dutch theatre producer. He began working for Joop van den Ende Theaterproducties in 1991, handling publicity and marketing for more than twenty musicals, including The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon and West Side Story, as well as fifteen plays and various revues and cabaret shows. He was also responsible for corporate communications for Stage Entertainment and promoting foreign co-productions abroad, such as The Phantom of the Opera, Cats and Les Misérables in Belgium, The Who's Tommy in London, and Cyrano: The Musical, Victor/Victoria, Titanic and Footloose in New York. He often worked with Robin de Levita. In 1999 he started Montecatini Talent Agency. There he helped produce Love me just a little bit more, Rocky over the rainbow, La Vie Parisienne and A Tribute to the Blues Brothers. With Stichting De Praktijk he produced Hurly Burly. In 2005 he obtained the rights to turn Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema's story into a musical. Soldier of Orange premiered in the Netherlands on October 30, 2010. Boot became managing director of NEW Productions, a company he formed with partners from Montecatini and Amerborgh Nederland. NEW Productions produced Soldier of Orange – The Musical and, in 2011, Het Mooiste van Sesamstraat, based on Sesame Street.