The 25th anniversary is typically associated with silver, but over at Luxor, it’s cobalt—cobalt blue, to be precise. One of the longest-running shows on the Las Vegas Strip, Blue Man Group is celebrating a quarter century of music, comedy, dancing and lots and lots of consuming of confections and noisy breakfast cereals.
The enduring appeal of the show stems from the childlike wonder of its protagonists as they discover the musical properties in everything around them. And the music they produce would be right at home at Electric Daisy Carnival, as would their visuals. It’s one of the few shows in Vegas that all ages can enjoy, and it’s not unusual at all to see repeat visitors, many of whom are taking a friend or family member for the first time.
To put all this into perspective, consider the numbers for the show’s cast over the years:
65,000—gallons of paint used, much of it to cover the heads of the voiceless, infinitely inquisitive Blue Men.
52,000—number of drumsticks used in the relentlessly percussive musical numbers. Some of those gallons of paint mentioned previously are used in the now-iconic sequence in which paint is poured onto drums, splattering it high into the air once the rhythms begin.
500,000—number of marshmallows the Blue Men have caught in their mouths, only to then remove everything they’ve caught, producing a solid, oddly-shaped (and hilarious) mass.
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