Blue Man Group

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Entertainment closed 24 June 2007

New London Theatre Drury Lane, London

Theatre - Concert - Comedy
One Amazing Show - Blue Man Group in London!

Blue Man Group is a multi-sensory circus of a show bringing together live music, comedy and drama to create one breathtaking experience. Direct from New York, this exhilarating assault on the senses is unmatched by anything else on the London stage. A powerful blend of stunning images, dynamic rhythms and dazzling spectacle, Blue Man Group is the essential theatrical experience.

"A multi sensory cirucs of a show"The Independent

Probably best known in the UK for featuring in a series of television adverts for Intel, the Blue Man Group originated as street performers in New York in the late 1980's. Their first permanent production - which is still running - opened at the off-Broadway Astor Place Theatre in New York in April 1991. In addition to this The Blue Man Group has performed in stadiums across North America as part of a tour, produced several CDs of original music, garnered a Grammy nomination,and most recently featured on the soundtrack of the animated feature film Robots.

"Great fun for everyone"The Sun

"Miraculously, it succeeds. The show is driven by a sense of how easy it is to feel isolated in an age of mass communication. But by the end of an evening that features paint-spattering tribal drumming, regurgitated sculptures and an avalanche of loo roll, all barriers are broken down and most of us united in what is, basically, a euphoric celebration of mess and misunderstanding." The Sunday Times

"The most surprising, original and entertaining show in London" LBC Radio

"Inside 90 minutes the show does a spectacular job in distracting those allergic to mime from the mime that is ultimately at the deadpan centre of everything they do... The show storms the mute gamut, from toilet humour to slightly sophisticated cyber philosophy. It's Disney doing Duchamp, it's Sesame Street meets Laurie Anderson. it's a wordless art lecture that drops sweet hints about the working methods of Pollock. Klein and Jennv Holzer. But if you're phobic about arriving late at the theatre, being the stooge of a mime, paint splashing drums, vomiting, toilet paper, plastic ponchos, the inner workings of the body or Donna Summer, the show's perhaps best avoided." The Sunday Telegraph

"During the spectacular and strangely beautiful finale, I looked around at a genuinely enraptured audience. Unexpectedly exhilarating"The Daily Telegraph

"Having started as anti-yuppie New York street theatre, this group has become a cloned global brand. Our supposed ingénues also seem curiously prone to product placement. But there are some great physical gags and a cartoon-man springing into 3-D life. The humour, though, is mostly puerile... For the record, several kids behind me seemed wildly excited. One yelled spasmodically, 'This is brilliant!' - which was sort of sweet, scary and profoundly depressing." The Independent on Sunday

Please note: This show contains strobe lighting.