Friday, November 22

Tag: Blue Man Group

Blue Man Group: Bluevolution World Tour – Festival Theatre
Scotland

Blue Man Group: Bluevolution World Tour – Festival Theatre

Where to start?  Well, if you don’t like rib rattling drumming, strobe lighting and a full on multisensory happening, don’t see this show!    It is an experience of epic proportions, colourful, loud, funny and stompingly engaging. The fun starts before the show begins, with public announcements being displayed on a board reminiscent of those motorway signs. Neon red letters requested us not to be annoying with our phones and announced that the flying of drones was definitely not allowed.  Blue Men come in threes.  They are mute, bald, blue and strangely endearing.  They are curious about everything, like silent aliens they seek to connect with the unfamiliar world in which they find themselves.   Essentially, I suppose the Blue Men are dru...
Blue Man Group: Bluevolution World Tour – The Lowry
North West

Blue Man Group: Bluevolution World Tour – The Lowry

Blue Man Group are a long established (since 1987) group of performers with their own unique brand of entertainment, the main feature of which is their phenomenal drumming.  They always appear as a trio and are completely silent, in that they do not speak a word throughout the whole performance.  Their current world tour, “Bluevolution” features a female drummer who provides them with excellent support but also gets her moment in the spotlight. I have seen Blue Man Group on the television and I wasn’t really sure how they could make their act stretch to a full ninety minute show (there is no interval) but they have crafted a wonderful evening’s entertainment, full of fun and joy and I was so sorry when it came to an end. The Blue Men mingled with the audience before the ...