BLUE MAN GROUP to Launch Sixth Year of Tour Next Week

NETworks Presentations, LLC and Blue Man Productions are pleased to announce the wildly-popular, award-winning production Blue Man Group is heading out for their sixth year on tour beginning December 8-13 in West Palm Beach, FL. Blue Man Group will visit more than 50 markets including Minneapolis, MN; Houston, TX; Pittsburgh, PA; Seattle, WA; Oklahoma City, OK; and New Orleans, LA.

Blue Man Group is comedy, theatre, rock concert and dance party all rolled into one. The Blue Man Group theatrical tour showcases classic Blue Man favorites, along with brand new content. Now approaching their twenty-fifth year of creativity, this artistic group is continually updating and refreshing Blue Man shows with new music, fresh stories, custom instruments and state-of-the-art technology.

"We live in a fast-paced, ever-evolving world. The Blue Man character is a curious being who explores our cultural norms, our every-day objects, but he sees them with fresh eyes and an innocent perspective. As the world around us changes, we are constantly inspired to create new scenarios for the Blue Man to explore," said Phil Stanton, Co-Founder of Blue Man Group.

"Plus, we really like to keep things fresh and vibrant. For almost 25 years, although the content within the show varies, the mission of every Blue Man Group show has remained the same - to bring the collective audience together with the Blue Men for a euphoric celebration, a heightened state of being alive," added Co-Founder Chris Wink.

The trademark of every Blue Man Group show is a combination of visually stunning multi-media, multi-sensory performance. The Blue Men are accompanied by a live band whose haunting tribal rhythms help drive the show to its unforgettable climax.

Across the country, Blue Man Group has received acclaim. The San Antonio Express-News proclaimed it's "an exhilarating, thought-provoking, laugh-yourself-silly evening of percussion-heavy rock music, comedy and playful commentary." "You've never seen anything like it. And, chances are, you never will," said the Bayou Buzz in New Orleans. The Los Angeles Times called Blue Man Group "a guaranteed good time" and the popular family blog Macaroni Kid wrote, "All I can say is GO SEE THIS SHOW! Bring your kids, bring your partner, bring your parents, bring your friends ... GO!"

For the founders of Blue Man Group, the universal appeal is based on our shared human DNA. Phil Stanton elaborated, "We say that no matter how high-tech things get, there's still something human there. We'll always need others, always need to collaborate. People still need to come together and look each other in the eye. Through the Blue Man's connection with the audience, we hope to encourage this human-to-human interaction, while helping people reconnect with their own sense of wonder and discovery, with their own sense of what is possible in their lives."

2015-16 Blue Man Group Theatrical Tour Dates *

West Palm Beach, Florida - December 8-13, 2015

Paducah, KY - December 15, 2015

Evansville, IN - December 16, 2015

Minneapolis, MN - December 18-20, 2015

Orange, TX - December 22-23, 2015

Austin, TX - December 26-27, 2015

Bowling Green, KY - January 11-12, 2016

Baton Rouge, LA - January 14, 2016

Houston, TX - January 15-17, 2016

Cedar Rapids, IA - January 19-20, 2016

Overland Park, KS - January 22-24, 2016

Clinton Township, MI - January 26-28, 2016

Flint, MI - January 29-31, 2016

Cleveland, OH - February 5-7, 2016

Rochester, NY - February 9-11, 2016

Buffalo, NY - February 12-14, 2016

Montgomery, AL - February 16, 2016

Athens, GA - February 17, 2016

Fort Worth, TX - February 19-21, 2016

Pittsburgh, PA - February 23-28, 2016

Muncie, IN - February 29, 2016

Shreveport, LA - March 2, 2016

Jackson, MS - March 3, 2016

Huntsville, AL - March 4-6, 2016

Charleston, WV - March 8, 2016

Knoxville, TN - March 9-10, 2016

Jacksonville, FL - March 12-13, 2016

Hersey, PA - March 15-17, 2016

Wilmington, DE - March 18-20, 2016

Eugene, OR - March 29-30, 2016

Seattle, WA - March 31-April 3, 2016

Bakersfield, CA - April 6, 2016

Modesto, CA - April 8-9, 2016

Redding, CA - April 10, 2016

Arcata, CA - April 11-12, 2016

Great Falls, MT - April 14-15, 2016

Idaho Falls, SD - April 16, 2016

Bozeman, MT - April 17, 2016

Ames, IA - April 19-20, 2016

Dayton, OH - April 22-24, 2016

Wichita, KS - April 26-27, 2016

Topeka, KS - April 28, 2016

Oklahoma City, OK - April 29-30, 2016

Richmond, KY - May 3-4, 2016

Morgantown, WV - May 5, 2015

Wabash, IN - May 6, 2016

Greenville, SC - May 10-11, 2016

New Orleans, LA - May 13-15, 2016

Charlotte, NC - June 17-19, 2016

* Additional dates to be announced.

About NETworks Presentations

From its inception nearly 20 years ago, NETworks Presentations LLC has been an industry leading producer and manager of touring musical theatre productions and remains committed to delivering quality entertainment to audiences worldwide. Having toured over 60 productions throughout North America, NETworks is now expanding its tours into international markets including South America, Greece, Italy, Turkey and South East Asia. Current touring productions include Cameron Mackintosh's The Phantom of the Opera, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Dirty Dancing, Blue Man Group, Elf the Musical, Bullets Over Broadway, Love Letters, Once the Musicaland international tours of Beauty and the Beast and Shrek The Musical.

About Blue Man Productions

Blue Man Productions is a global entertainment company best known for the award-winning Blue Man Group show, performed in 15 countries and seen by more than 35 million people

worldwide since 1991. A dynamic combination of music, comedy and technology, the show appeals to a broad range of age groups and cultural backgrounds. It is continually refreshed with new music, fresh stories, custom instruments and state-of-the-art technology.

The company developed through a creative collaboration among three close friends, Chris Wink, Phil Stanton and Matt Goldman on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Blue Man Group now

has permanent theatrical productions in Las Vegas, Orlando, Boston, Chicago, New York and Berlin, as well as a North American Tour.

This creative collective is now part of the pop culture zeitgeist. Beyond the stage show, Blue Man Group has toured the globe with the "Megastar World Tour" rock concert parody, produced 5 albums, including the Grammy-nominated Audio, and contributed to numerous film and TV scores. They have served as the face of branding campaigns for Intel and TIM/Brasil and appeared countless times on hit shows like "The Tonight Show," "Arrested Development," "Ellen," "Schaag-den-Raab" (Germany,)"WOWOW" (Japan) and "Calderão" (Brazil.)

Based in NYC, Blue Man Productions has extensive production facilities, recording studios and a 6,000 square foot Research & Development Lab with numerous new creative projects in the pipeline.