Blue Man Group

OH MY GOSH!

BLUE MAN GROUP ROCKED!!!! I must admit it has probably been the best $60 I've spent in a LONG time.

They have those moving text reader thingies (you know they have the text on them and the text scrolls across). And it was hilarious to read. Before it began it talked about no cameras and videos and it said if you took video the ejectors mechanism in the seats will have to be used. It was just funny stuff. When it started, it would tell us things to do. So it said like "so-and-so just won a gold medal. Let's all say congratulations on your medal so-and-so." Or it'd say someone's birthday and we should SAY happy birthday not sing it. One time it said for us to all say hi to Sam (after telling us to say something for other people beforehand with a purpose) and it said Sam is just a normal person and there wasn't anything special about him. It cracked us up and then it said "all the more reason to say hi to Sam." It'd ask for these people to stand up too, but no one did. Then it said that a person in the 4th row is going to sing for us and two spot lights shone on this guy. The guy just sat there and it said, "Just kidding." It was funny.

Before they started too, they gave everyone crepe paper (white) to do whatever they wanted. Most people (like us) put it on like a ninja.

Then the show started and they started up with the paint drums, which were pretty neat. They poured paint onto them and one of the guys would hit it. Then they did this paint ball thing. One of the guys would throw it to another guy and he'd catch it in his mouth (they threw marshmellows beforehand into the audience). Then he took a canvas and bit into the thing and paint would come out. The third guy would try to get them, he missed a few times and went to go put one on the canvas, but nothing happened. So he just stuck it to it. Then he caught a TON in his mouth (probably 15 at least) and just kept shoving them into his mouth. He couldn't put it onto the canvas so he got this table and pushed them all out of his mouth into a mound and put a $4,000 sign in front of it while the other guy held up his painting. It was HILARIOUS.

They did some musical things with PVC pipes. It was pretty cool. The band was in these suits that with neon lights would make them look almost like a dummy or movie, but they were real people. They brought out boxes of Cap’n Crunch and they did a musical thing with crunching it. It was FUNNY.

They came out into the audience and actually walked right passed us. One of the guys in the audience had been given a Tolberone (spelling?) chocolate thing and so the blue-man-guy gave it to another guy on the other side of the aisle and he non-verbally asked him to toss it to him so he cough catch it in his mouth. That was hilarious. The blue-man-guy was RIGHT next to us and he didn't always catch them in his mouth and they'd drop on the ground, but he'd put them into his mouth anyway! At the end of it, the blue-man-guy goes up to the gentleman who was throwing the chocolate and took his hand and put all the chocolate pieces on his hand! The fun part about this too was they had a camera following them around and we were on camera! LoL

Then the other two of them walked near the "power switch" and got this other guy to stand up with them. They put his hand on top of another blue-man-guy and the moved his hand around to the switch. All the lights went off! So we're just sitting there and third blue-man-guy comes over with a flashlight and shines it on the switch and one of the others (not the one with the guy) was eating something out of a bowl relaxing agains the switch! So he kind of gives him a look and he sort of jumps and turns the switch back on and then just randomly hands a person in the audience the bowl!

Then they three of the prowl around the audience and found this lady. They pulled her up. So the go onto stage with her and this HILARIOUS routine. They put this blue type vest on her and sit her down and then the others all sit down. There are plates in front of them. One of them pulls out some flowers in a vase and they do something that was funny. Then another guy pulls out some jell-o. He jiggles it and they all look at it intently and then look at her. She has this look of “what?” Then they jiggle it again and look at her again. Then the guy who took the flowers out picks up the vase and tries to get it to jiggle or makes a motion like it’s jiggling. They all look at her and she has that look again! Before that they also put a picture on the wall. And they try to move the picture like it’s jiggling. So then they start to play with the jell-o and he hits a slate in the table and sends the jell-o flying into the audience. They look all shocked. Then one of the guys brings out a lamp and points it over the flower. He claps his hands and it turns on. It cracks us all up. So then, of course, the audience all starts to clap and it spazes out. So he puts it away and brings out a lantern light and hangs it up. Then one of the guys brings out a box of twinkies. They each get one (including the lady) and they’re trying to figure out how to open it and at first she was too and then she just opened it. The guy sitting next to her looks at her like she’s amazing. He takes the twinkie and puts it onto his plate. So he hands her his twinkie and she opens it and puts it on her plate. As she’s opening each one, the guy next to him is showing the other guy. So eventually she opens the 2nd guy’s twinkie. The last guy, though, brings out an electric cutter and cuts his open! One of the guys brings out a vacuum and vacuums up the wrappers, the lion on the painting, and one half of the last guy’s twinkie! Then they bring out silverware (plastic) and cut up their twinkies and share them with each other. It was funny. Then they start to eat it and the guy next to her made it look like he wanted her piece so she goes to give it to him, but takes it away. The look he gives her, though (funny!), stops her and she feeds it to him. So then they all wave the twinkie around in front of the other’s face before they feed them. Then, one of the guy’s suits spurts out pasta or something (looked GROSS!). He starts to eat it and then the others try to steal it from him. Then the other two also do that and they’re fighting over the stuff. It was gross, but funny. Then, suddenly, HER suit does the same thing. It FREAKED her out! It was SO funny. Then they scoop up all the stuff and put it into a take-out box. One of the guys gets up to get her up and take the vest off. They hand her the take-out box of pasta and also a picture (one of those fast developing ones). They send her back to her seat. It was SO funny. I haven’t laughed that hard in forever. I was crying SO much I couldn’t wipe up the tears fast enough.

They did some more musical routine stuff that was pretty fun, but you had to be there. They also did some more things with some people in the audience. They brought up 3 people from both sides and the center and sat them down on chairs. They did this whole video intro about the ear and how it works and how there’s this one part scientists don’t really know what it does or how it works because they can’t find volunteers for the very painful experiments. So then you start to laugh for the guys. They attach like a drumstick with a hook to each of their ears. Then they pull on it and different forms of “ouch” come out and when they pull it different ways, it makes different tones and such. They did a musical thing to that and it was hilarious.

They also brought this guy (teenager) up and put him into this white suit and put a black helmet over his head and they lead him off stage. Once they do that, they start to play on some form of drums and you see this backstage camera and they paint the suit with blue paint all over. Pouring it on, squirting it on, etc. Then they put a loop over his feet and they pull him upside down and plaster his front to a canvas! So it makes an imprint of him! They turn the camera off and you see the Blue Men. A box with jell-o on top comes out. They play with the jell-o, but it makes this sound (like a mic inside of it). So they tear through the jell-o and there’s like a black upside down bucket. They pull it off and it’s the guy! He’s in a blue painted suit. They lead him off and it was funny too.

They did some other cool things too. Like make fun of the internet saying millions of lines connect us and whatnot and you think it’s the Internet, but they say “plumbing” and that’s when you get your first glimpse of the PVC pipe music/drums. They also did a thing on netspeak, that was hilarious. They also talked about animation. They did a whole skit with that and this white (almost like shaving cream, but not) stuff. They also talked about how animation will never be as good since it’s 2-D images and not 3-D. So they had this what we thought was just bronze (odd) statue around this water column (they made tornadoes in it). Well, they spun it REALLY fast and it turns out it makes an image (in 3-D) of this person dancing! They changed the lighting so you can tell it’s the same thing underneath correct lightning. It was cool!

Then they did this whole thing with, what looked like, a large outlined person (you know, the outlined people shape like you see on movies when someone dies they outline the person). They had them sitting on a computer alternating between typing and drinking coffee. Then they stand up! They have these whips and they make sounds and then the guys come out with whips and do this whole routine. The slight of hand stuff between what is a person in a suit and what is just a projector or TV was AMAZING.

They did the TV screen thing. Their heads are behind/in TV screens. That was funny too.

The coolest part was the end, though. We had the crepe paper each person was given earlier and they had this thing at the beginning on the scroll bar thingy saying “all paper is from 100% recycled paper.” We were all “what? Why’d they say that? Because the stuff they gave us?” They also gave a strobe light warning. WELL. The guys put on a THIN mask and they turned the neon lights on and everything started to glow! They had these colored tube things come down from the ceiling I was noticing before the show started and they spun around and the guys had the thin masks on to make their head “glow.” They ran around the audience again and at the back of the room they had ROLLs and ROLLS of wider crepe paper and it was just pulled off and sent down the back and across the front. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN! Oh my gosh! They put the strobes on and the neon and you have all this paper moving from the back to the front. It was SO much fun. I couldn’t believe it. Strobe light was wacky and it was just so much fun. It was close to the end so they did a few other things, more paint drumming and that was neat. They had everyone come out and bow and it was just AMAZING.

The other funny part was when we were about 10-15 minutes in they were going to do something but the big screen goes through an “attention everyone” thing and says “late arrivals!” They had a camera and light on the late arrivals and a song saying “late arrivals” or something like that plays. It was hilarious! If I was late, I’d be SO embarrassed. EVERYONE knew you were a late arrival.

If I had the chance, I’d go again. It was definitely worth the $60. It’s almost a full 2 hour show (about 1 hour and 40 minutes long, though almost 10 minutes of reading the scrolling thing and telling people things). There’s no intermission, but they warn you of that before hand. Lots of audience interactions and they were just fun and funny.

Well, I think that was all the big stuff I can really say. All I have to say is, they were HILARIOUS and LOTS of fun. It was amazing. They had this “splash zone” where everyone wore ponchos (or most) and it cost more, but no one got wet or anything. *shrugs*Maybe for another show routine they do.

Jamie got a Blue Man Group CD called Complex. She and I both got shirts. I didn’t want to, but they were too amazing to pass up on the shirt. So I’m into +2 shirts for going to Florida. Somehow I’m going to pay for Europe. :P

I’m just having a blast here. Tomorrow we’re going to the Magic Kingdom. Tuesday (if it doesn’t rain) most likely Kennedy Space Center unless something comes up. :)