Monday, September 29, 2008

Blue Man Group

The show started with the stunning artistic talents of David Garibaldi who used his energetic talent to hype everyone up for the Blue Men Group. What Garibaldi would due is draw an almost instant portrait of a music icon (Jimi Hendrix, Bono, Mic Jagger) while dancing to the music of the particular artist that he is drawing. His method worked since the crowd was yelling and cheering wilder then when he had started.
Now, the theme of the concert was called “How To Be A Megastar Tour 2.1,” which means exactly what it sounds. Throughout the concert, the Blue Men order a DVD information video, with a member of the audience's credit card (not really, obviously), and do what the DVD tells them to do. This leads to a whole bunch of funny and visual stunning acts that they perform over the course of two hours.
The Blue Man Group aren't alone on stage though, they have a full band in the back of them, doing most of the music for them, besides making noise with small to large poles or their world famous drums. Since the Blue Man Group doesn't sing, they had vocalist Adrian Hartley sing the songs that they performed.
They also did a lot of interactivity with the crowd, bringing up two people at around the mid-point of the show, giving one a painted shirt that they drew on the shirt while it was on him. For the other person they gave her a baseball cap with a marshmallow sculpture on top of it. Near the end of the show, they had another woman from the crowd come on stage to introduce the members of the band who does the music as well. The first row were actually given plastic ponchos to wear just in case they might get paint splattered on them.
The variety of what the Blue Man Group accomplishes is simply stunning, using video, sound and acting. It doesn't leave any time for a dull moment, having a giant smile on your face the whole time watching it. An example of this would be one of the funniest jokes they are known for, which is how they put T.V. screens on their heads and mess around with each other.
They closed the show with a nice interpretation of The Who's Baba O'Riley with Hartley singing it while the Blue Men played little melodic tubes with their orange drum sticks. Even though it still cost 91.60$ to see them, it is still something that everyone should see at least once because it is a fantastic show.

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