The Blue Man Group

Wow!!! If you ever get a chance to see these three men perform, GO. They are three creative fellows who perform a crazy 2-hour-filled paint, drums, paper and acting session that only you can believe from seeing it. We sat down at 6 and felt as if the time flew by in 10 minutes. There is no talking, only three men with blue paint all over their heads and hands. They are dressed in black and are up against a black back-stage so that you really are focussed on their heads and eyes. They make music with sticks hitting onto drums and pipes plus they put paint onto the drum tops so that it flies everywhere. The people in the first four rows of the performance had to wear blue-bag ponchos so that all the paint and the spitting and throwing of other things doesn't dirty them up. Note; don't take the first four rows, the bags didn't really help a lot.
In the last 15 minutes of the show, paper, lots of it about as wide as 2 sheets of toilet paper, fell out of the ceiling at the back and continued to fall. The paper was continually thrown towards the front of the audience and each of us had to help it along. Good thing that we were in a seating pattern where the seats went downhill from the back to the front. You'd think paper would roll downhill - not so. Our arms were so tired from pulling from over our heads to the front of ourselves where we had to again throw it onto someone else's head. A poor lady beside G, who was terribly worried about her hairdo, gave up worrying after about 3 minutes when she realized that it wasn't going to stop any time soon. Too funny!!!!
We walked away with an amazing feeling. For two reasons. One, was that these American guys, who are usually in the states performing, are actually in Berlin while we are here and we got to see them. And, two, that the whole perfomance fills you with an incredible sense of childish 'who cares' attitude.
Search them out, and go see them if you can.
G and J