Question: When did the Blue Man Group start in the birthplace of the man who performed You Know the Number?

Brown grew up in Chicago and attended Wilson College, where he met musicians such as Jack DeJohnette, Henry Threadgill, Roscoe Mitchell, and Joseph Jarman. He played piano in R&B and soul outfits into the 1960s, then switched to saxophone in 1965. He joined the AACM in 1971, and also played with The Awakening in the early 1970s. In 1974 he lost several teeth in a car crash, and temporarily switched to piano again until he recovered. He played sax later in the 1970s with McCoy Tyner, Don Patterson, and Sonny Stitt. In the 1980s, he worked with Lester Bowie, Von Freeman, Bobby Watson, and Anthony Braxton, and in 1989 he became a member of Kahil El'Zabar's trio. <SEP> The album and features six of Threadgill's compositions performed by Threadgill's Sextett with Frank Lacy, Rasul Siddik, Fred Hopkins, Diedre Murray, Pheeroan akLaff and Reggie Nicholson. You Know the Number is an album by Henry Threadgill released on the RCA Novus label in 1986. <SEP> New York City at the Astor Place Theatre (1991 -- present) Boston at the Charles Playhouse (1995 -- present) Chicago at the Briar Street Theater (1997 -- present) Las Vegas at the Luxor Hotel and Casino (November 18, 2015 -- present) Orlando at the Blue Man Group Theatre at CityWalk at the Universal Orlando Resort (June 6, 2007 -- present) World Tour (March 29, 2016 -- present) - a celebration of life in full color with the launch of a World Tour beginning March 29, 2016 in Singapore. <SEP> instruments were marketed by teacher-dealers, much as the title character in the popular musical the music man. often, these teacher-dealers conducted mandolin orchestras: groups of 4-50 musicians who played various mandolin family instruments. however, alongside the teacher-dealers were serious musicians, working to create a spot for the instrument in classical music, ragtime and jazz. like the teacher-dealers, they traveled the u.s., recording records, giving performances and teaching individuals and mandolin orchestras. samuel siegel played mandolin in vaudeville and became one of america's preeminent mandolinists. seth weeks was an african american who not only taught and performed in the united states, but also in europe, where he recorded records. another pioneering african american musician and director who made his start with a mandolin orchestra was composer james reese europe. w. eugene page toured the country with a group, and was well known for his mandolin and mandola performances. other names include valentine abt, samuel adelstein, william place, jr., and aubrey stauffer. <SEP> the mandolin's popularity in the united states was spurred by the success of a group of touring young european musicians known as the estudiantina figaro, or in the united states, simply the "spanish students." the group landed in the u.s. on january 2, 1880 in new york city, and played in boston and new york to wildly enthusiastic crowds. ironically, this ensemble did not play mandolins but rather bandurrias, which are also small, double-strung instruments that resemble the mandolin. the success of the figaro spanish students spawned other groups who imitated their musical style and costumes. an italian musician, carlo curti, hastily started a musical ensemble after seeing the figaro spanish students perform; his group of italian born americans called themselves the "original spanish students," counting on the american public to not know the difference between the spanish bandurrias and italian mandolins. the imitators' use of mandolins helped to generate enormous public interest in an instrument previously relatively unknown in the united states.