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Blast! is a Broadway production created by James Mason and Cook Group Incorporated, the director and organization formerly operating the Star of Indiana Drum and Bugle Corps. It was the 2001 Winner of the Tony Award for "Best Special Theatrical Event" [1] and also won the 2001 Emmy Award for "Best Choreography" [2]. Blast! is a Broadway show created by James Mason and the drum and bugle corps, Star of Indiana. ... Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... The Star of Indiana Drum and Bugle Corps was a Division I Drum and bugle corps based out of Bloomington, Indiana and was a member of Drum Corps International. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... An Emmy Award. ...

Blast!'s instrumentation is exclusively brass and percussion, a nod to the show's roots in the drum and bugle corps activity. Blast!'s performers use trumpets, mellophones, baritone horns, tubas, trombones (including one on a unicycle during Gee, Officer Krupke!), french horns, and a full complement of percussion instruments including snare drums, tenor drums, bass drums, xylophones and marimbas, tympani, and other standard percussion equipment. In addition, Blast! adds instruments not normally found in drum corps, such as French horns, concert euphoniums, trombones and bass trombones, and synthesizers. [3][4] Accompanying the wind and percussion is the Visual Ensemble (or VE for short), a group of dancers who manipulate a variety of props, similar to a color guard. The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps, a DCI Division I corps from Rosemont, Illinois. ... The trumpet is the highest brass instrument in register, above the French horn, trombone, baritone, euphonium, and tuba. ... The mellophone is a brass instrument that is typically used in place of the horn in marching bands or drum and bugle corps. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The tuba is one of the largest of low-brass instruments and is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the ophicleide. ... The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. ... Alex Toms of Sydney, Australia demonstrates Street unicycling (March, 2006). ... The horn is a brass instrument consisting of tubing wrapped into a coiled form. ... The snare drum or side drum is a tubular drum made of wood or metal with skins, or heads, stretched over the top and bottom openings, and with a set of snares (cords) strethced across the bottom head. ... A tenor drum is a low-pitched cylindrical drum, but slightly higher pitched than a bass drum. ... A bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch. ... Kulintang a Kayo, a Philippine xylophone The xylophone (from the Greek meaning wooden sound) is a musical instrument in the percussion family which probably originated in Indonesia. ... The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. ... Timpani, or kettledrums, are musical instruments in the percussion family. ... The horn is a brass instrument consisting of tubing wrapped into a coiled form. ... The euphonium is a conical-bore, tenor-voiced brass instrument. ... The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. ... The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. ... A synthesizer (or synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument designed to produce electronically generated sound, using techniques such as additive, subtractive, FM, physical modelling synthesis, phase distortion, or Scanned synthesis. ... United States Federal Protective Service color guard. ...

History

The Star of Indiana Drum and Bugle Corps, founded in 1984, began competition in the Drum Corps International circuit in 1985 and continued through the 1993 season. [5] Highly successful, it won the 1991 World Championship, and was a respected Midwestern corps. After the 1993 season, the program left the DCI circuit to tour with the Canadian Brass, in a new program dubbed Brass Theater. On December 14th, 1999, Blast! premiered at the London Apollo in Hammersmith, and arrived in the United States on August 23rd, 2000, at the Wang Center in Boston, Massachusetts. On April 17th, 2001, Blast! opened on Broadway at the Broadway Theater, and later that year commenced its first national tour starting September 7th in St. Louis, Missouri. [6] The Star of Indiana Drum and Bugle Corps was a Division I Drum and bugle corps based out of Bloomington, Indiana and was a member of Drum Corps International. ... Year 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar). ... Drum Corps International (DCI), formed in 1972, is the non-profit governing body operating the North American drum and bugle corps circuit for junior corps, whose members are between the ages of 14 and 22. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Canadian Brass is a brass quintet founded by Chuck Daellenbach, Stuart Laughton, and Gene Watts in 1970. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... Hammersmith is an urban centre in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in West London, England, approximately 5 miles (8km) west of Charing Cross on the north bank of the River Thames. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Wang Center for the Performing Arts, located in Boston, Massachusetts, consists of two theatres, both of which are neighbors on Tremont Street south of Stuart Street in Bostons Theatre District. ... Nickname: Location in Massachusetts, USA Coordinates: Country United States State Massachusetts County Suffolk County Government  - Mayor Thomas M. Menino (D) Area  - City  89. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Note on spelling: While most Americans use er (as per American spelling conventions), the majority of venues, performers and trade groups for live theatre use re. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

Musical Numbers

• Boléro
• Split Complimentaries
• Everybody Loves the Blues
• Loss
• Simple Gifts
• Appalachian Spring
• Medea
• Gee, Officer Krupke! (from West Side Story)
• Lemon Techno
• Land of Make Believe
• Marimba Spiritual/Earth Beat
• Malagueña [7]

Boléro is a one-movement orchestral piece by Maurice Ravel. ... Simple Gifts is an 1848 Shaker song by Elder Joseph Brackett. ... Appalachian Spring is a ballet score by Aaron Copland that premiered in October 1944, and achieved widespread popularity as an orchestral suite. ... For The Games song, see Westside Story (song). ... A Malagueña is a woman living in the Spanish port city of Málaga, on the southern coast of Spain, in the province of Andalucia. ...

External links

• Official website
• Star of Indiana homepage
• Cook Group Incorporated homepage

References

• 2001 Tony (Antoinette Perry) Awards. Infoplease. Retrieved on December 20, 2005.
• Emmy Awards: 2001. The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on December 20, 2005.
• Brass Instruments & Model Numbers. blasttheshow.com. Retrieved on December 20, 2005.
• Percussion Instruments & Model Numbers. blasttheshow.com. Retrieved on December 20, 2005.
• Song History for Star of Indiana. Corpreps.com. Retrieved on December 20, 2005.
• Blast Timeline. blasttheshow.com. Retrieved on December 20, 2005.
• Blast: An Explosive Musical Celebration. Amazon.com. Retrieved on December 20, 2005.