The blue man group show last for 1 hour and 45 minutes with no intermission
Yes they are real people who appear in black clothing and blue grease paint over latex bald caps and play a mixture of idiosyncratic, often percussive, instruments
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Meryl Vladimer, the Artistic Director of The CLUB, saw their work as part of a variety show hosted by the Alien Comic (Tom Murrin) and commissioned Blue Man Group to create a full-length show. The resulting piece, Tubes, took off after Vladimer persuaded New York Times theater critic Stephen Holden to review it. Blue Man Group's popularity continued to snowball, resulting in a performance at Lincoln Center titled "Serious Fun", and eventually an Obie Award and a Lucille Lortel Award, which led producers to take the show to off-Broadway. Tubes opened in 1991 at the Astor Place Theater in New York City.
Blue Man Group won a special citation in the 1990-1991 Village Voice Obie Awards, and a special award in the 1992 Lucille Lortel Awards, which are for excellence in off Broadway theatre.
Early in the history of the group, the members would speak with audiences after the show while still in makeup, answering questions, signing autographs, and talking about the show. Eventually, however, it was decided that cast members would stay in character at all times while in makeup, meaning after shows they would still not speak to audience members, and the only "autograph" they would sign would be a smudge of blue paint. When shown a "new" piece of technology, such as a cell phone or even an old pair of binoculars, they will simply stare at it in wonder.
They dont wear a mask like most people believe. The Blue Men wear grease paint on their heads. It never dries. This effect allows the Blue Men to maintain that wet gooey look throughout the show. You can find more about the Blue Man group on their site.
This is observation and is as of yet unverified, however you can see that their entire head is blue - which means hair and ears etc.
You can see however that their ears seem to be smoothed over.
They appear to have some form of "skull cap" like someone might use in film.
This would likely be a latex "cap" that would cover the hair and ears before the grease paint is applied.
Only chameleons can becom blue for you see when Sarah is next to me she is fully relegious and shooting her lazer vision at ben who is eating Jew goggles.
The first of the two tribute tunes they play is "Whip It" by DEVO (this is the one with the fast hi-hat cymbals). The second song with the rattling gizmo that won't quit, then the second time they play it there's a heavy metal shriek that echoes... This song is what I am looking for. It's very familiar but I can't figure it out. Good luck.
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The first song they tribute (where they clap the sticks together) is Devo's "Whip it".
The second song (with the workaholic rattle) is Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train".
The third song (with the lighter) is Led Zeppelin's "Kashimir".
In Las Vegas they have the paddle, the the black and blue no tipped drumsticks for drumbone and then the ones for the shadow drumming and paint drumming + the one big mallet the guy uses for that giant drum piece that's about 4. In Orlando they have paddle, 2 sided drumsticks, big mallet, the one that hits the strings on the tilted piano the drumbone sticks that look like theres no tip on it but theres only one big tip at the bottom of the stick so i'd say that in Orlando there's about 4-5. LasVegas-4 Orlando-4-5
All the shows are different from each other, even in the same city. they improvise a lot.
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Matt goldman,cris wink and Phil Stanton
The members of the Blue Man Group are Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton. They formed the group in 1987 and have been featured on many television night shows.
The Former African Slaves invented Blues music as a way to relieve the unhappiness in their lives. People who heard it found it a good therapy for their 'blues' and that's how it got its name.
yes he was, he did it before he taught drumline at high schools
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