Blue Man Group

Cafe Society
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I saw them in Vegas in about 2002 or 03. The show was great, although a few bits did go on too long. I loved the music. I could have done without the marshmallow art though.

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I saw them in Vegas earlier this year. They do music, though they don’t sing or speak, they use neon lights, strobe lights, cereal, Twinkies, a supporting band, a huge amount of recycled white paper, and they have a thing for PVC tubing and pipes. They also use video text and graphics.

If you are sensitive to the lights mentioned above or you are claustrophobic, you may not enjoy yourself. Otherwise, it is a wild, entertaining, unpredictable and hilarious show.

I’d go again.

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Word has it, anyone interested in BMG should watch Scrubs tonight.

Personally, the funniest thing I found at the BMG show I saw had nothing to do with them, but was the humiliating chorus & spotlight whenever someone walked in late. Though there were some funny bits, there was too much repetitiveness or sections that lasted too long for my tast, so I found the whole thing overrated. :frowning:

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I’ve seen the four times. The Blue Man Group has two different shows.

  1. Is the show at the permanent venues. I’ve seen them in New York and Toronto. It was essentially the same show in two different venues. I was with friends that saw them in Las Vegas and said it’s the same basic show in a much larger auditorium.

  2. The traveling show; How to be Megastar is mostly The Complex Rock Tour reformatted. I saw Tracy Bonham in both shows (as of two months ago.) I miss Veruca Salt from the Complex Tour.

I loved all of the shows, but will wait until something very new to see them again. They are a lot of fun. If you haven’t seen them at all, go! Going again depends on how much you enjoyed them the first time.

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I’m pretty sure you mean Venus Hum.

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Yeah, them too.

Oops.

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Am I the only one to walk out of a BMG show? Saw them in Vegas, was deeply and profoundly unimpressed. They’re blue, look startled, and made noises with PVC pipe.
Must be too sophisticated for me.

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Maybe you’re too sophisticated for them? BMG is, if anything, anti-sophisticated. There’s a large element of sort of childish glee in what they do. It’s messy, it’s loud, it’s often kinda scatological.