Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Blue Man Group @ Astor Place Theatre, NYC, Saturday 3 January
I hadn't particularly planned on catching this, but when I washed up across the road from their theatre one evening, I didn't feel I had any choice but to buy a ticket for the next night's show. From Arrested Development, I knew that it'd be three bald guys covered in blue paint playing drum, but the show also takes in a wide range of performance theatre, visual projections, music and audience participation (including rolls and rolls of toilet paper dropping from the ceiling) - a kind of postmodern dada experience, though its absurdist tendencies veer more towards the simply humoroous than the genuinely thought-provoking. Enjoyed it.