How to Be a Megastar Tour 2.0

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The Blue Man Group will be here in a few weeks and I managed to cop a couple tickets. It was a closer call than I figured it would be – I didn’t participate in the pre-sale and unbeknownst to me, the local PBS station was offering pairs of tickets as a ‘thank you’ gift when they were shaking the can a few weeks ago – but I got 'em.

Has anybody here seen it yet? What songs are in the concert? Their last tour, The Complex had virtually only (and virtually all) the songs in the same-named album, but AFAIK there haven’t been any new albums since then but for a couple iTune downloads.

Drumbone, of course but what else? A mix of Audio and The Complex tunes, I’d wager plus some heretofore unreleased material?

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I’m incredibly jealous of you. I’m a ‘roof dweller’ but it’s unlikely I’ll get to see this tour until (and unless) it comes out on DVD - I live in the UK and the tours don’t come here. I went to the BMG stage show in London a couple of months back and loved every second of it.

It is supposedly based around a second volume of the ‘Rock Concert Instruction Manual’, so I think it can be expected to include a good deal of new material, although perhaps on a similar theme as the Complex Rock Tour. It’s nice to see that the Blue Man Group will be giving full credit to the importance of Floppie The Banjo Clown in the early development of Rock and Roll.

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I actually attended the opening night of the tour in Reading, PA though I didn’t know it was the first night at the time. Without going online and checking the tour fan websites I can say the this tour was very much like the live DVD of the Complex tour. With the possible exception of the interactive cell phone/SMS thing you can participate in. Tracy Bonham is the opening act / guest singer and violinist, the same camera gags were used, in the pipes, down the throat, etc…

While the concert was very enjoyable, energetic, and sounded very good, I wouldn’t hold out for much originality. It seems that Blue Men, INC is concentration on spreading their act far and wide with broadway-style shows around the world, and not on developing new material.

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I can’t answer your questions, but I wanted to brag that I snagged tickets to the concert and a meet-and-greet beforehand from the local PBS as a gift to Mr. Kitty, who had never heard of BMG ( :eek: :eek: :eek: ) prior to the PBS shill for money. I can’t wait… three and a half weeks to go!

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Well, I’ll give them (it?) a pass this time. I have The Complex DVD but did not see it on stage three years ago, so this will do as an adequate substitute.

Does Venus Hum return?

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I’m doing a little thread resurrection because I just saw the How to be a Megastar 2.0 show on Friday night in San Jose, and since DesertDog is (I’m guessing) going to the Phoenix show tomorrow, then I can actually be somewhat helpful for a change.

A little backstory: the missus and I saw BMG at the Luxor a couple of years ago. We didn’t know what to expect but we got comped tickets from friends of ours, and who are we to turn down freebies? We loved the show and bought the Audio CD and The Complex DVD . . . but while I’ve listened to Audio dozens of times, we never actually even unwrapped the DVD.

So we go Friday, loved it, awesome. However, it is less a theatrical show (like we saw in Vegas) and more of an outright concert.

(BTW, no Venus Hum, although I fell in love with Annette from her appearance on the DVD. Tracy Bonham did all the female vocals, including I Feel Love.)
Anyhoo, so Saturday night we decide to bust open the shrinkwrap on The Complex DVD and show it to the kids, ages 4 and 18 months.

They loved it. The missus and I realized it was THE SAME FREAKING CONCERT WE JUST SAW LIVE 24 HOURS BEFORE.

Sure, there was some additional material, most notably a couple of filmed sketches by Fred Armisen and the “Floppy the Banjo Clown” idea, but the music and framework were the exact same stuff.

If we had watched the DVD before we saw the concert, we would have felt ripped off.

As it was, we decided to cop a positive attitude. So we now have a DVD archive of the very show we attended. That’s what we tell ourselves, anyway. And BMG will be getting more of our money, since I will be getting the CD for the new music pretty soon.

(And the kids loved it, too. The four-year-old kept asking us yesterday, “Mommy, Daddy, can we watch the blue guys with the blue faces?”)

TTFWIW.

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Bumping this thread to say:

I want to have Peter Moore’s babies. Anyone who knows him IRL is hereby asked- nay, begged- to let him know that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have lovely redheaded children.

ATL show was packed-out and awesome. I may have to spring to see them in Birmingham when they come back around.