Blue Man Group is ending long-running productions in New York and Chicago, however the brand new present will go on in Orlando, officers say.
A brand new 578-seat theater at Icon Park, an Worldwide Drive leisure advanced, is deliberate for a recent Blue Man providing. The addition was introduced in June, a ground-breaking was held in September, and opening night time has been scheduled for April 3.
However Blue Man exhibits are wrapping up Sunday in Chicago and on Feb. 2 in New York, the corporate introduced late final yr.
“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 New York,” Jack Kenn, managing director of Blue Man Group, stated in a information launch. Kenn had related sentiments concerning the Chicago manufacturing.
Work has begun on the Icon Park website, which has been fenced off and leveled. The theater — the primary constructed particularly for a Blue Man manufacturing — will likely be on the east aspect of the advanced, going through Common Boulevard and wedged between two of the big help posts for the Orlando Eye remark wheel. The situation was picked partially attributable to its proximity to Epic Universe, a Common Orlando theme park set to open Might 22.
A Blue Man merchandise outlet already is working at Icon Park and tickets at the moment are on sale. (For extra data, go to blueman.com.)
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Blue Man, which is owned an operated by Cirque du Soleil Leisure Group, additionally has residencies in Boston and Las Vegas plus worldwide touring firms.
Blue Man Group had a 14-year run at Common Orlando in a soundstage within the shadow of Common Studios theme park’s Hollywood Rip Journey Rockit curler coaster. Manufacturing shut down in 2020 because the pandemic took maintain. The Blue Man present by no means returned and was formally shuttered in 2021. Common lately confirmed that Rockit will shut in September.