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Jun 3, 2016 · Tony Awards Andy Blankenbuehler on Making History with HamiltonThe Tony-nominated choreographer talks his style, exclusive details of his vision for Hamilton’s ensemble, plus looking back on In ...
- 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 ...
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Nov 17, 2022 · As the show came together rather bumpily, with not enough time and too much backstory and dance numbers that needed cutting, Blankenbuehler kept thinking about how “Hamilton” just clicked, for ...
Jul 20, 2018 · By Sarah L. Kaufman. July 20, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. EDT. Democracy in action has never looked cooler than in “Hamilton,” in which the fighting strength of people who changed the world comes ...
Jul 21, 2020 · Since Hamilton, Blankenbuehler went on to choreograph a revival of Cats (as well as the film) and the musical, Bandstand, which earned him another Tony Award. Behind the Scenes. For every show Blankenbuehler works on, he spends a ton of time researching the era before putting his steps on paper. Sometimes its historical research and other times ...
Dec 18, 2015 · Blankenbuehler would know about that “journey.”. He’s staged and choreographed some of Broadway’s biggest hits, including In The Heights , 9 to 5 , and the recent revival of Annie. He’s ...
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May 3, 2016 · The Man Who Put the Groove in Hamilton. The Man Who Put the Groove in. Hamilton. A behind-the-scenes talk with Broadway choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler about making the hit moves for Hamilton, the anxiety of reviving CATS, and how a crowd of miserable commuters at Starbucks inspired an opening number.
