BLUE MAN GROUP

The BLUE MAN GROUP creates experiences that defy every categorisation. They take the audience on a journey that is funny, strange, intelligent, and visually mind-blowing. Backed up by a live band, the BLUE MAN GROUP wraps their show in enthralling modern rhythms. All the musical instruments used were specifically developed by the BLUE MAN GROUP and allow a distinctive sound to develop.
Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton and Chris Wink, the founders of the BLUE MAN GROUP, started their first stage show at the Astor Place Theatre in New York (1991), immediately earning rave reviews. They were awarded with the Obie Award, the Lucille Lortel Award and the renowned Tony Award in the "Unique Theatrical Production” category.
The music of the three founders is one of the most important elements of the show. The BLUE MAN GROUP's debut album "Audio" was released by Virgin Records on December 1999, and has subsequently gone gold. “Audio” was nominated for a Grammy in the “Best Pop Instrumental” category. The albums "Audio" and " The Complex" were released on the BLUE MAN GROUP Records label, and both are also available in Germany.
Goldman, Stanton and Wink performed the entire first three years in New York without understudies. Since their founding years, the worldwide Blue Men team has accrued over 40 members and over 60 musicians. All Blue Men perform in shows on a rotation and are involved in other projects. What began as a group of three friends is today an organisation with around 500 members.
The BLUE MAN GROUP has become a worldwide success. The show has been part of the cultural scene in New York, Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, and Orlando for years.
The first show to be seen outside of the USA was the European premiere in May 2004 in Berlin, where the show was a great success, “We are surprised and pleased by the German audience," said founder Chris Wink. "Many people, including journalists, warned us that the German audience would be stiff and unemotional. But they were all mistaken. They reacted enthusiastically. Our recipe for success is that the audience of our show rediscovers their inner child. With us you can let go of all inhibitions. That makes our show the biggest party in the city every night."
In 2000 and 2004, the BLUE MAN GROUP appeared in a worldwide television campaign for the “Intel Corporation”, a computer technology company. For the filming of the commercials, the three founders played the Blue Men roles personally. Wink says,“We have been offered many advertising jobs in recent years. Only “Intel” was a realistic proposition for us. The affiliation with a modern technology company suited us perfectly. After the premiere in Berlin, we were asked if we were interested in doing a new campaign for mobile Centrino-technology. The ideas had us convinced and the commercials gave us the opportunity to introduce the Blue Man briefly to television viewers and maybe get some of them to come and see us in our shows."
In early 2005 you could also hear the BLUE MAN GROUP in the movie theatre: they supplied the percussion music to the new animated movie Robots, released in Germany in the summer of 2005.
For the FIFA World Cup, the BLUE MAN GROUP appeared in funny football ads in the Adidas-Arena am Reichstag. Since summer 2006, an exclusive collection from “Swatch" with a BLUE MAN GROUP design has become a hot commodity. The collection is based on a collaboration between Blue Man Productions in New York and the Swiss "Swatch AG". The BLUE MAN GROUP joined the ranks of the notable designers Keith Haring, Spike Lee, Jean-Michel Jarre and Vivienne Westwood.
Since February 2007, the BLUE MAN GROUP has had its own theatre, the BLUEMAX Theatre on Potsdamer Platz. On December 1st 2007, the BLUE MAN GROUP celebrated a premiere in Tokyo. Over seventeen million people worldwide have experienced the BLUE MAN GROUP show.