![]() ![]() In 1991, "Blue Man Group: Tubes" opened off-Broadway to critical acclaim. The color blue felt a certain way, being bald felt a certain way, not speaking felt a certain way." "An element of the character just happened once we put on the makeup," Wink said. Three friends - Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton and Chris Wink - donned bald caps and slapped blue greasepaint on their faces, and a surprisingly complex character was born. The original Blue Man Group was born around 1987 in New York. After all, I was still eating crayons in the third grade. What was I getting myself into? What would it feel like to be inside their skin? What could I learn from being blue? The questions were daunting. ![]() ![]() When I posed the idea that I would actually become a Blue Man - makeup, bald head and all - and the Blue Man Group bought it, the deal was sealed.Īnd so I traversed the wilds of Las Vegas, seeking to become one with a small, elusive tribe of strange, hairless/earless hominids known for stuffing their blue faces full of marshmallows, Twinkies and Cap'n Crunch cereal and pounding out infectious rhythms on PVC pipe. Never let it be said that I am above risking my well-being for a story. But I also figured that because Vegas is a town where anything goes, it couldn't hurt to learn the proper technique for placing a latex ball of paint in your mouth, bursting it with your teeth and creating a work of art by spitting the paint onto a canvas, a technique that Matthew Banks of the Blue Man Group promised to show me. Normally, I try not to be blue, but when offered the opportunity to visit and write about the famous Blue Man Group, I re-evaluated the situation.įirst and foremost, as a reporter I would be paid for my trouble, and I could hang out in Las Vegas.
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