![]() ![]() Chris grew up in the apartment, and one day I found a book he made as a kid called My Blue World, with pictures of a blue man. Juliet Lofaro, props coordinator, 1991–94: I was living with Chris and Matt. Goldman was a software producer Wink was a trend forecaster, drummer, and caterer at Glorious Foods - which is where he met Stanton, an aspiring actor. In their 20s, they shared an apartment on the Upper West Side. Wink and Goldman met while attending Fieldston School in the Bronx. It would have been insane to think that.” “But it’s not like we expected to get as far as we did. “From the beginning, we weren’t just trying to be pure - to make art and gaze at our navels,” says Wink. But its lasting success has surprised no one more than the founders themselves. That this undeniably unusual show found an audience when it launched - during the rise of rave culture and a few years after Burning Man debuted on Baker Beach - made a certain kind of sense for the era. This past November, the Astor Place show marked its 30th year - one of the most successful Off Broadway runs of all time. There have since been shows in Boston, Chicago (where Fred Armisen was a drummer with the Blue Men early in his career), Las Vegas, Orlando, and beyond, as well as commercial campaigns featuring the original trio and tours with Moby, David Bowie, and Busta Rhymes. “The word on the street was we were nuts,” says Larry Heinemann, who played with the group on instruments including the Chapman Stick. The three characters were general outsiders, unfamiliar with our customs and unable to speak but endlessly curious and eager to connect they also caught a heroic number of food items in their mouths. Over the next few years, with input from a circle of art-school kids and musicians, they would bring their constantly evolving act to many spots around the city - they played with vaudeville at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, experimented with flying paint at La MaMa, and eventually landed at Astor Place Theatre. Within months, the group of Blue Men had been winnowed down to three: Chris Wink, Matt Goldman, and Phil Stanton. ![]() They called themselves the Blue Man Group. The participants, most of whom had painted their skin blue, piled the objects into a metal drum along with some flash paper, which they lit on fire. Matthew can perform solo with tracks, or with a local backup band and provide charts.On May 21, 1988, eight people carried a coffin into Central Park to conduct a “funeral for the ’80s.” Inside it were items meant to represent the culture of the decade: a Rambo doll, tiny figures wearing suits (yuppies), bags of a white substance resembling crack. Joel, incorporating video of Billy Joel’s own words and insight for a deeper, more intimate perspective of his iconic songs. Matthew can play it straight or add costume elements to further invoke Mr. It’s an AFFORDABLE, audience-focused, sing-along show that can be structured and scaled to fit any event. Talk about a crowd-pleaser – EVERYONE has a Billy Joel song (or 10) that they sing along to in private or public, songs that feel like soundtracks to their own life moments. In Billy Joel Retrospect, he gets to pursue his passion and showcase his incredible vocal and instrumental prowess. As one of the stars of Las Vegas’ Blue Man Group, Matthew is an incredible performer on a major stage, who’s toured the world performing for everything from stadium audiences, to sold-out casinos, to intimate private events, to the Queen of England. "Star of Billy Joel Retrospect, a show Banks created as the ultimate performance to honor one of the most iconic artists and his music. ![]()
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