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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.
Hamilton: An American Musical is a sung-and-rapped-through biographical musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Lin-Manuel Miranda as well as choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler. Based on the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, the musical covers the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and his involvement in the ...
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).
- March 7, 1970
Andy Blankenbuehler. Mr. Blankenbuehler is a proud recipient of the 2018 Kennedy Center Honors for his work on the musical Hamilton. He is a three-time Tony Award winner for his choreography in the Broadway productions of Bandstand, In The Heights and Hamilton for which he also received London's Olivier Award.
- 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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Jun 3, 2016 · Blankenbuehler’s movement—unmistakably Blankenbuehler—breathes life into the historical figures at the center of Miranda’s hip hop opus.
The vignette, here vibrantly performed by Andy Blankenbuehler and Lainie Sakakura, is a re-creation of the first sequence Fosse choreographed for film, a scene from the 1953 movie of Kiss Me, Kate, danced by Fosse and Carol Haney. It was a calling card, of sorts, announcing that an audacious new choreographic talent had arrived, and when you ...
