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Andy Blankenbuehler and wife attends the Broadway opening of "The Apple Tree" on December 14, 2006 in New York City.
Mar 16, 2021 · Meet Andy Blankenbuehler, choreographer of 'Hamilton'. After an interrupted but acclaimed season in Sydney, Hamilton began its Melbourne season yesterday. The musical is expected to continue in that city all year, with a planned return to Sydney in 2023.
Jul 21, 2017 · Andy Blankenbuehler, 47, the Tony Award-winning choreographer of “Hamilton,” lives with his wife, Elly, and the couple’s two children in a Harlem brownstone complete with a dance studio.
- The First Steps
- In The Spotlight
- Keeping The Beat
- Speaking in Silence
- Memoir in Movement
- A Full Circle
Forty-five years ago, dance was math, Blankenbuehler noted. He focused first on the ones. The twos. The threes. The rhythms he repeated, the motions he memorized. He was 3. And from his first class at Jane Miles School of Dance in Pleasant Ridge, it worked for Blankenbuehler. He has what he calls a mathematical brain. He could remember moves and ke...
There is one thing that Blankenbuehler has never possessed, however. Patience. He is go, go, go. Move, move, move. Again, again, again – until he gets it right and accelerates, again, toward the next thing. College at Southern Methodist University in Texas lasted just a year. His next leap was some 6,500 miles: He performed at Tokyo Disneyland. Tha...
In about 2004, Blankenbuehler took a turn toward something he first did decades before on that stage and in that gym at St. Xavier in Cincinnati. Choreography. "It's about telling stories," he said. It's always been about telling stories, even though he didn't know it at the time, Blankenbuehler says. When he did musical theater in Cincinnati, he w...
When he choreographed "Hamilton," he wore boots that reminded him of a Revolutionary War soldier's garb. He had a gun in the studio. He wanted to feel how heavy the rifle would have been in a patriot's hand. How frightening it would have been to reload it as British soldier marched toward him. How would that panic feel? How would it move? Then and ...
But there was almost no room when "Hamilton" arrived. His daughter, Sofia, had been diagnosed with leukemia. Life was doctor's appointments and throwing up in the car on the way to school. Life was worrying and waiting and not being able to control what was happening around him and his wife Elly and their children. And waiting is not what Blankenbu...
Sofia is healthy today. When "Hamilton" was about to open at Richard Rodgers Theater in 2015, the then 5-year-old was there in another way, dancing during rehearsals between the aisles. She choreographed her own moves. That moment was a full circle, a return for Blankenbuehler. He was once in Broadway seats with his father. They saw "Cats" when he ...
- Southeast Storytelling Coach
Andy Blankenbuehler and his wife, Elly, arrive for the formal Artist's Dinner honoring the recipients of the 41st Annual Kennedy Center Honors hosted by United States Deputy Secretary of State John... Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images
Jul 21, 2020 · Blankenbuehler worked with Hamilton’s director, Tommy Kail, briefly in the editing studio when they started putting the film together a few years ago but his attention was focused on opening another Broadway show at the time.
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Andy Blankenbuehler was born on March 7, 1970 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Hamilton (2020), Cats (2019) and BANDSTAND: The Broadway Musical on Screen (2018).
