Blue Man Group

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Blue Man Group

Blue Man Group in Brazil in 2009
Formation 1991 (1991)[1]
Type Theatre group
Purpose Entertainment
Location
Website http://www.blueman.com/ and http://www.DareToLiveInFullColor.com/

The Blue Man Group is a performance art company formed in 1991.[1] It is best known for its creative stage productions around the world.

Blue Man Group currently has continuing theatrical productions in Las Vegas, Orlando, Boston, Chicago, New York City and Berlin, along with a North/South American Tour. Along with the theatre show, Blue Man Group has toured the globe with their “Megastar World Tour”, a rock concert parody, appeared on the Norwegian Cruise Line ship The Epic, released five albums, contributed to a number of film scores, performed with orchestras around the US, and appeared in advertising campaigns.

Blue Man Group grew out of a collaboration between three close friends, Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The Blue Man character emerged from small “disturbances” on the streets of the city, growing into small shows at downtown clubs, eventually becoming a full performance at the Astor Place Theatre. The show caught the attention of US media.

Theatrical productions

Astor Place Theatre with marquee for the group

Current theatrical productions

United States
Germany
Norwegian Cruise Line

Previous theatrical productions

United States
Germany
Canada
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Japan
Switzerland
Sweden
Austria

Australia

Music and tours

In 1999, the group released their first audio recording, titled Audio. Although it contained some of the music from their stage productions, it was less of a soundtrack and more a collection of full-length instrumentals that featured new instruments.

In 2002, the group participated in Moby's Area2 tour, giving a more rock-oriented performance than in the theatrical shows. Songs developed during this tour appeared on 2003's album The Complex.

Unlike Audio, The Complex featured a variety of vocalists and guests including Tracy Bonham, Dave Matthews, Gavin Rossdale and Venus Hum. The record spawned its own 2003 tour, the first headlined by Blue Man Group. The tour deconstructed the traditional rock concert experience into its often clichéd parts and was chronicled in a 2004 DVD release. The tour featured Tracy Bonham and Venus Hum as supporting acts. The DVD included a surround sound mix of some of the studio recordings.

Blue Man Group launched its second tour, The "How to Be a Megastar Tour 2.0", on September 26, 2006. The tour added some new material to material from the original Complex Rock Tour, and had Tracy Bonham as an opening act and vocalist. DJ/VJ Mike Relm was the opening act for the second leg of this tour, which ended April 22, 2007 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. This third leg of the tour began in May 2007 and included performances in Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey, Mexico; Buenos Aires, Argentina; São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Santiago, Chile. The fourth leg, using "2.1" in its title, included more U.S. and Canada dates. Following that, the Megastar World Tour visited France, Korea, Canada, Germany, and a few other European countries throughout 2008.

The "How to Be a Megastar Tour 2.0" visited Taipei, Taiwan from August 19 to 23 as part of a promotional campaign for the 2009 Summer Deaflympics in Taipei, most of the show's dialogue displayed with subtitle. As Typhoon Morakot hit the island and caused serious damage in mid August, the group agreed to perform one extra show with the proceeds being donated to the victims of the flood.

In 2008, the group collaborated on the track "No More Heroes" with the Dutch DJ and producer Tiësto for the remixed version of the Elements of Life album.

Announced in 2009, Blue Man Group began performing for the first time at sea on Norwegian Cruise Line's ship, the Norwegian Epic. The Epic began alternating 7-Day Eastern and Western Caribbean sailings from Miami with Blue Man Group shows nightly in July 2010.

In 2013 a tour to South Africa was announced, marking the first performances on the African continent. That performance did not materialise due to other tour and contractual obligations. A tour of South Africa was confirmed for early 2017.

Discography

Feature film

In September 2008, Variety reported that the original trio (Matt Goldman, Chris Wink and Phil Stanton) would appear in a Blue Man Group IMAX 3D feature film, to be produced by Charlotte Huggins.[9] The film, titled Blue Man Group: Mind Blast, was to be directed by David Russo and released by National Geographic Entertainment.[10]

Videography

Television

Advertising

Programming

Blue Man Group has also performed on various shows such as an appearance on The Grammy Awards (with Jill Scott and Moby), The Emmy Awards, The Latin Grammy Awards, The Royal Variety Show (for Queen Elizabeth II), Wetten, dass...? (Germany), The Voice (Germany), Regis and Kathie Lee, Regis and Kelly and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

The Blue Man Group also appeared on episode 7 of Season 12 of Celebrity Apprentice.

Blue Man Group performed in Star Awards 2016 (Show 1) in Singapore, a special variety programme of prize giving to the Singapore Artiste.

Awards and nominations

Themes

There are a number of different themes found in various Blue Man performances. These themes include:[12]

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Official website
  2. 1 2 Goldberg, Viki. "Blue Man Joins the Vegas Collection, New York Times, April 30, 2000
  3. "Blue Man Group National Tour". January 21, 2010. Retrieved February 9, 2010.
  4. "Norwegian Introduces Norwegian Epic's Captains And Hotel Directors Unveils Inaugural Sailing Dates in Europe and U.S. Miami" (Press release). Norwegian Cruise Line. 15 October 2009.
  5. Ogunnaike, Lola. "For the Blue Man Army, Recruitment Is on the Rise", The New York Times, 10 October 2005.
  6. BLUE MAN GROUP / Show in Berlin – English Archived June 27, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  7. "Blue men pack up bags". Official London Theatre Guide. Society of London Theatre. March 27, 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-28.
  8. "Blue Man Group – "DIE SHOW SENSATION"". Bluemangroup.ch. Retrieved 2009-11-23.
  9. Cohen, David S. (September 8, 2008). "Blue Man Group heads to bigscreen". Variety.
  10. Cohen, David S. (September 15, 2009). "Blue Man, Nat Geo map 3D pic plans". Variety.
  11. "Off Broadway Alliance Awards". Retrieved August 24, 2011.
  12. 1 2 3 Blue Man Group: Inside the Tube. PBS. 2006.

References

External links

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