Blue Man Group

This past Tuesday, Ron and i went to see "Blue Man Group" in Binghamton. We had heard from a few different folks on how good the show is, so we were pumped. We met up with our friend Jeff beforehand for some eats (burgers and wings) and brews (an awesome "went down a little too easy" White Belgian Ale). We got there almost 30 minutes late (but we found free parking!) and the show still hadn't begun. Once it did, it went right through; no intermission. The
Broome County Arena is pretty small - i had been there a couple times for some Jackals hockey games. So any seat was going to be a good one. Ironically enough, we sat where I would sit for the hockey games. The view was fine. The show was pretty audience-interactive, which can be fun and effective (10) or slightly hokey (1). This fell at about a 3.5. It always amuses me when words scroll across a screen telling the audience to do something, and they do it, then the next set of words says something like, "if you just did what we told you to do, then you are an idiot." Maybe i'm a wet noodle, but I almost always NEVER do what a performer "tells" me to do, let alone WORDS scrolling. So i found that funny. The PERFORMANCE of BMG
is mediocre. It was not nearly as MESMORIZING, visually, as i had hoped for. Their MUSIC, however, is rather good. It's very drum-based, and already right there, they've won me over. They also use a lot of, like, plastic plumbing piping (i'm sure there is a term for this stuff) which provides a very unique, slightly industrial sound, which I also like. Ron says he has a CD of their music around here somewhere... I'm going to have to remind him to find it. So all in all, we had a very good night together, the TWO of us, in celebration of his birthday (and mine, sorta) which was yesterday. Ron had to go to work on his actual birthday - oh well.