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- His partnership with Kail, Miranda, and orchestrator Alex Lacamoire began with In The Heights. Blankenbuehler actually had to interview with Kail, Miranda, and playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes for the choreographer position on Heights — and at first, he didn’t get the job.
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Jul 21, 2020 · His partnership with Kail, Miranda, and orchestrator Alex Lacamoire began with In The Heights. Blankenbuehler actually had to interview with Kail, Miranda, and playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes for the choreographer position on Heights — and at first, he didn’t get the job.
Jun 3, 2016 · Blankenbuehler is one of the forces behind the theatrical “hurricane” that is Broadway’s Hamilton, the same creative cabinet behind 2008’s Tony-winning In the Heights. There seems to be a...
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.
- 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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Jul 20, 2018 · Blankenbuehler won a Tony for his “Hamilton” choreography and has two others, for Miranda’s earlier musical “In the Heights” and, more recently, “Bandstand.”
With Miranda as composer and star, Kail as director, Blankenbuehler as choreographer and Lacamoire as music director, they’re collectively two-for-two in building Tony Award-winning musicals for...
Jun 26, 2020 · I grew up in Cincinnati. I moved to New York City and had a career as a Broadway performer, transitioned into choreography, met the wonderful Lin-Manuel Miranda and Tommy [Kail] and Alex [Lacamoire], and we all made a show called In the Heights together, and later HAMILTON.
