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| - Fellow yelpers, I must save you money with this review. But, before you read the full review, please note that I am spoiling a few details by including them in the review. I should preface this by saying we had GREAT seats -- front and center without being in the splash zone.
I don't understand this show. Some people equate it to Stomp, which is AMAZING and why we decided to see the show. I sat there for the whole hour and a half or 2 hours wondering what the heck was going on. Some of the jokes are funny, but that's about as far as it goes.
They spend a good majority of the show trying to find someone in the audience to bring to the stage -- this takes 7 minutes each time they do it, so for 14 minutes of the show, you're just watching them look at you like some foreign creature as they make their way through the aisles. They bang on paint splattered drums, which is kinda cool. The music is just ok. The worst of it is that at regular intervals, they feel the need to BLIND you with really bright lights that are SO BRIGHT you cant even look at the stage. The strobe lights dont make the show any easier to watch and are kind of nauseating. They end this waste of time by making you pull toilet paper from the back of the auditorium all the way to the stage. I have no idea what purpose this serves (it wasn't fun or funny), but it was annoying more than anything else.
The best part of the show BY FAR is the cowboy bit. Other than that, there's not much to convince me that I need to spend $100 on another ticket to see it again. If you feel that you must see this lackluster performance, google promo codes for Blue Man Group and you can at least find a discount for 30% off. How people managed to pay $50 for their tickets is beyond me and very lucky. Unique, fantastic, hilarious, interesting -- all adjectives that dont belong in this review. SAVE YOUR MONEY!!!! Go see something else.
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