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Welcome to the Theater People podcast. I'm your host, Patrick Hines. You guys, the 2017

Tony Awards are less than a week away. I can barely breathe. So today we're bringing you two of my favorite nominees from this year. Up first, bandstands Andy Blankin Bueller. Andy is, of course, the show's director and choreographer, and he's nominated for his choreography. Andy's been working on Broadway as a performer,

director, and choreographer since 1992. He won his first Tony Award in 2008 for choreographing

in the Heights, and he won another last year for choreographing Hamilton. Because we could

have talked to him about everything and we didn't have hours for that, we're focusing today

just on his work with bandstand.

But don't worry, he'll be back.

Here's our conversation.

First of all, hi, Andy Blank and Bueller.

Hey, how's it going?

I mean, this is like a dream interview for me.

Oh, please.

It's great to be in this community.

And like, you just ask me how crazy the award season is.

You know, it's not crazy because I just love seeing people and love sharing the theater.

Totally.

I mean, like everybody, Hamilton, you know, in the Heights are so such, like, meaningful, like, theatrical things for me.

So over the years I've gotten to meet almost all of you now involved in the creative team. And it's like, I do this for a living, but it's also like I can't hide my inner fans. If I start squealing like a girl, just bear

with me, please. I know what it's like. I just love it too. So bandstand, first of all,

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