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Blue Man Group
RayB:
I've seen both the "local" Toronto show and the touring "How to be a Rock Star" show a few years back.
If you have a choice, go see the tour version. Amazing show. (It also introduced me to a band I had never heard of before, "Venus Hum". Great band.)
The "local" Toronto show was good, but disappointing and over-priced when compared to the tour show.
shmokes:
It's not that I don't believe that the show is great. I do. I've never known anyone who's seen it that didn't think it was all kinds of magical. But what in the hell is it? Their advertising is awful. Nothing about a group of guys with blue paint on their faces is appealing to me. I don't think to myself, "Wow, those guys are very . . . blue. This I have to see." And the Intel commercials from a few years back that used them certainly didn't make them look particularly entertaining.
ChadTower:
Percussion based performance art.
Strokemouth:
--- Quote from: RayB on February 09, 2007, 12:37:13 pm ---I've seen both the "local" Toronto show and the touring "How to be a Rock Star" show a few years back.
If you have a choice, go see the tour version. Amazing show. (It also introduced me to a band I had never heard of before, "Venus Hum". Great band.)
The "local" Toronto show was good, but disappointing and over-priced when compared to the tour show.
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That's the one they play at the Panasonic Theater, right? I'm actually glad you say the tour version is better. I thought the one in Toronto was fantastic, so seeing the tour one is sure to be good.
And I didn't think it was overpriced at all. I may have also been saved by decent conversion rates though too. ;D
RayB:
--- Quote from: Strokemouth on February 09, 2007, 02:19:40 pm ---That's the one they play at the Panasonic Theater, right? I'm actually glad you say the tour version is better. I thought the one in Toronto was fantastic, so seeing the tour one is sure to be good.
And I didn't think it was overpriced at all. I may have also been saved by decent conversion rates though too. ;D
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Yes at Panasonic. It was over $60 a ticket (canadian) yes? Trouble is, I saw the big tour show first, for the same price as this small-scale version. You'll love the big show.
To people who wonder what the hell is so great. It's a big mix of unique music, percussion, special effects, humor, technology, etc. Very entertaining.
Shmokes: You could nay-say any kind of performance. ie: "what's so great about a couple guys with guitars, a drummer, and a bunch of lights?" Just go see it! ;-)