“ We were just three guys who decided to get bald and blue,” said one of the show's cofounders.
Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton workshopped the performance art piece known as Blue Man Group in small Downtown Manhattan venues and living rooms nearly 40 years ago. Its concept was profound yet bizarre in its simplicity: a non-story that conveyed human emotions through song and movement.
Bhurin Sead, Wes Day and Steven Wendt at the Blue Man Group's 17,000th show at the Astor Place Theatre.The show’s closure came as a surprise to Blue Man Group’s three cofounders, Wink, Goldman and Stanton. Wink and Goldman met in middle school, and Wink met Stanton when they were working as waiters for a catering company on the Lower East Side in the early 1980s.They’d rehearse material endlessly, cut what didn’t work mercilessly and perform whenever and wherever possible. Producers eventually took notice, and the trio opened at the Astor in 1991.
"The only thing he said to me was, 'Just promise me you're not going to flip it in five years and make me look like a fool,'" Goldman said. “I said, 'John, I'm raising my family here. We're not flipping anything.'” “I think we all thought the show would just run forever,” said Akia Squitieri, who worked as the Blue Man’s Astor Place company manager.
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