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Blue's Big Car Trip - Driveway (during the theme song), Backseat Behind Passenger Seat (during thinking time, due to being in a car).Magenta Gets Glasses - Couch (due to the lack of additional room for Miranda on the actual Thinking Chair).Nature & Spring is Here!- Thinking Rock (due to being outside for the entire episode).The chair itself was produced in various colors such as blue, indigo, purple, and the now-famous red. It was originally made for a show on the E! Network called Pure Soap, with an extended sofa version to match.

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It was at college when he met his wife, the stage and TV actress Amanda Dela Cruz, who is currently appearing off-Broadway in “Jersey Boys.” Though he’s often away filming his show in Toronto, he’ll slip a picture of her - and their beloved dog Ollie - into his scripts.Before Blue's Clues began production, the Thinking Chair was a regular chair designed and sold by Galerkin Furniture as part of their Max line. His additional credits include “Here Lies Love” off-Broadway and Onscreen, he's appeared in ABC's “Time After Time” and CBS' “Bull.” Dela Cruz earned a bachelor’s in musical theater from Montclair State University in 2011. “I had a very strong imagination growing up and I was the only boy sandwiched between two girls, so I would just kind of play by myself all the time and put myself in these wild situations and dream up these big stories.”Īdvice from his older sister led him to audition for the high school musical and it was theater that helped him overcome his aversion to public speaking. He grew up in New Milford, New Jersey, with no intention of becoming an actor. Dela Cruz even credits the catchy “Mail Song” with spurring his interest in singing. The family didn’t have cable but whenever they’d sleep over at their aunt’s house, the pair would eagerly watch the blue dog. Our show gives us the opportunity as kids to voice our opinions and make mistakes, because that's a part of learning.”Īppearing on “Blue’s Clues” completes an unlikely circle for Dela Cruz, who as a youngster watched the show with his younger sister. “You're usually told to be quiet and listen.

“It's more of a transfer of power and authority to the home viewer, which is something as a kid, you don't usually get,” he said. The 30-year-old Dela Cruz thinks “Blue’s Clues” is different than other shows geared toward children because it honestly asks audience members for help and it doesn’t ask them to be silent consumers. He got down to their level and spoke to them,” she said. “Some kids were backstage and he was just so lovely with them, so genuine. But they were even more impressed by what they saw offstage. She and her team went to see him in “Aladdin” and were wowed by what they saw him do onstage. Traci Paige Johnson, co-creator and co-executive producer of the original “Blue’s Clues” and the reboot, helped pick Dela Cruz, purposely widening the search to include Broadway performers because they can sing and dance and endure a grueling schedule. “I was talking to my friend and they said their kid was like, ‘Hey, he looks like me.’ And man, that hits you like a ton of bricks,” he said. He is the first Asian-American actor to become Blue’s companion, a responsibility not lost on him. Burns helped pick Dela Cruz from an audition process that included over 3,000 hopefuls.

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Other changes include the addition of Handy Dandy Guitar and an update to Handy Dandy Notebook, which now has smartphone technology, allowing Dela Cruz and Blue to receive emails and video calls.įormer hosts Steve (Steve Burns) and Joe (Donovan Patton) returned for the first episode to help welcome Dela Cruz as the host. “She is furrier, she's more lovable,” he said. The reboot hews close to the original, with the return of characters like Mailbox, Thinking Chair, Slippery Soap, Shovel and of course Blue, though the pup is being rendered by computer graphics. The original Nickelodeon show ran from 1996 to 2007, with a human host solving a puzzle by deciphering the meaning of Blue’s barks and paw prints - with assistance from young viewers chiming in with their thoughts.

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