Blue Man Group upped the ante for entertainment on the Strip. Conceptually, comedically, and sonically, the whimsical antics of three mute cobalt-colored biomechanical bipeds fully engages the auditory, optical, and intellectual capacities of audience members. What started out as street theater in New York in the late-’80s metamorphosed into a ’90s theatrical phenomenon, one that found a permanent post-millennial home on the Strip. This year, Blue Man Group celebrates a decade at the Luxor, where their act continues to sell out performances and demonstrate how high-concept a contemporary production needs to be to have staying power in the Entertainment Capitol of the World.
The show itself blends the premise of three childlike beings making discoveries and creating innovative uses for them with visceral light and sound, audience participation segments and macro-sized percussive instruments that are performance artworks in themselves. Live, loud rock music fills every inch of venue space with a fidelity unprecedented for Las Vegas stage productions before the Blue Men arrived in Las Vegas in 2005. The humor is wry, Twinkies are abundant and the Blue Men’s mouths are magnets for tossed marshmallows in an ongoing engagement that leaves audiences speechless with amazement and keeps fans coming back.
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