The Blue Man Group will conclude its off-Broadway New York run in February 2025 after enjoying 17,000 plus performances over greater than 30 years.
The group is thought for its iconic blue-faced, bright-eyed bald humanoids that carry out a myriad of stage antics, comparable to paint-splattering, drum-playing, and marshmallow-catching. They’re set to play their remaining efficiency on 2 February.
It was introduced that the present may also finish its Chicago run on 5 January, however keep it up in different cities, together with Las Vegas, Boston and Berlin. The performers are scheduled to recommence a run of reveals in Orlando, Florida in 2025 following postponements from the coronavirus pandemic.
“I’m honored and humbled to be a part of the historic evolution of Blue Man Group, which began in New York again in 1991, and so it’s with deepest gratitude to announce the ultimate performances in Chicago,” mentioned Jack Kenn, the group’s managing director, in a press release obtained by ABC7 Chicago.
The closure of the New York manufacturing was introduced in a press launch. No causes for the sudden closure have been included within the assertion.
The announcement comes at a time when theaters round New York and throughout the nation are struggling to remain afloat amid dwindling ticket gross sales and shrinking viewers sizes in comparison with pre-pandemic reveals.
Blue Man Group was shaped within the Eighties as a type of performance-art experiment. The group had their New York debut in 1991 once they landed a residence on the Astor Place Theatre, the place they nonetheless carry out to at the present time.
Cirque du Soleil acquired Blue Man Group in 2017.
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