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May 19, 2008
11:32 pm PST
2 commentsBlue Man Group
My second Arrested Development-related post of the night…
I saw Blue Man Group with Jon and Jen on Friday. It was a lot of fun, and had quite a few clever tricks that I enjoyed. After the show, the actors are outside for pictures. They are still “in character”, so they can’t talk or smile or anything. I asked one of them if he watched Arrested Development, and he looked at me and gave a silent, ever-so-slight knowing nod.
Awesome
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I saw them at the Venetian on my honeymoon in Las Vegas last month. It was a great show, though very strange. It felt like half show, half social experiment. Before the show, the audience was asked to read some announcements with no particular warning, just “READY GO” on the prompter to get everyone started. Still, it seemed to work — everyone read it aloud more or less together. When people were brought up on the stage (selected by the penetrating stare of the Blue Men), they were just expected to catch on to whatever the Blue Men were doing and do the same. I was amazed at how well it worked, and how entertaining it was. Part of the show included a light show featuring a western town on the frontier, which had some light-cowboys dancing around an internet cafe. It definitely made me think of “jamming with the console cowboys in cyberspace”. I had to wonder if it was a reference to “Neuromancer” or just silly dancing-light cowboys. Did the audience get wet at all when you saw them? Sarah and I sat in the 4th row, in the “poncho seat” section, but there wasn’t any need for the ponchos. Nobody got wet, which left me feeling slightly cheated. Still, it was a great show. Also, I want one of their pipe-o-phones.
Yeah, it was much the same when I saw it. I was confused about the READY GO stuff at first since it was hard to see from my seat.
Our show didn’t have anything western. Perhaps it was because the stage was somewhat smaller than most.
The people in the poncho seats did not really get wet, but there could have been modest spillage from some of the scenes, I’m not too sure. I was in the balcony, so it was hard to tell.
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