Blue Man Group Skit

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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My company, a major speaker and sound company, has asked my department to put on a skit in our amphitheater as part of a motivational meeting. We have chosen the “Blue Man Group” as the theme of our skit. We have a pretty elaborate show planned with colored water drums and the whole works. My contribution is to do much of the writing for any of the written materials that the Blue Men use to communicate with the audience. For those of you that are not familiar with the Blue Man Group, they do not speak during the entire show but use scrolling electronic signs and posters instead.

Here is where I need help. For those of you that have seen a Blue Man Group show, you may remember the part of the show where the three Blue Men stand in from of the audience and present posters in sequence to the audience. The joke is that you are instructed to pick only one set of posters to focus on and not to look at the others. Depending on which one you pick, you get shown all sorts of bizarre stuff from pictures (ink blot test or Charlie’s Angels silhouette) to strange facts.

  1. Does anyone remember the actual content that the Blue Man Group uses during this part of the show? It certainly does not have to be an exact recollection. Anything in the general spirit is fine.

  2. Can anyone suggest humorous or strange content that would be funny when presented on a series of posters in front of an audience that would fit with this general theme?

I know that this is just the type of task that the Teeming Millions will shine on.

Thanks in Advance

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I saw the Blue Man Group during spring break, and I remember that a lot on things on those posters were talking about how whoever is reading them is trying to read them all instead of picking just one. There were some cards that talked about the odds of having picked all the same cards as the person sitting next to you… there were bar codes, ink blots, and cards “Made specially for people in the back rows.” (with big letters) That’s all I really remember. Hope this helps.

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Queen Isabella covered most of it, but I remember a couple others. One was about the rate at which information is created, something about how the amount of information produced in the last 18 months was equal to that produced in all of recorded history leading up to that time. Another was about the anxiety of the card stunt itself, that if you only had time to read one card there would be the uneasy feeling that you were missing something else.

You might want to get in touch with Nymysys, although she’ll probably check this herself once she sees the thread title. She works for Blue Man Group in Chicago. There might also be something helpful at http://www.blueman.com