Theatrical productions
Blue Human Class action's theatrical acts incorporate rock music (with an emphasis in percussion), odd props, audience participation, sophisticated lighting, and big numbers of (recycled) paper. These are too noted for with the "poncho section" of the audience; in the front rows, audience members are provided using thin plastic ponchos sequentially to protect the children from either various foods, substances, paints, and so in, which develop thrown, ejected, or even sprayed from either a stage. A shows come personal-oriented, humourous, up-&-coming and typically use thought-challenging satire on modern life. We recommend of these doesn't arrive late for the performance.

List of theatrical productions
"Tubes- Rewired" inside New York at the Astor Place Theatre (1991—) "Tubes- Rewired" inside Boston at the Charles Wendy house (1995—) "Tubes- Rewired" inside Chicago at the Briar Street Theater (1997—) "Live at Luxor" around Las Vegas at the Luxor Hotel Theater (2000–September 2005) "bluephoria" within Las Vegas at The Venetian (October 2005—) Berlin at the Theater am Potsdamer Platz (2004—) Toronto at the Panasonic Theater (2005—) London at the Freshly London Theatre (November 2005-)

Musical Instruments
When the shows evolved, Blue Human Class action developed a placed of custom-made musical instruments, many designed from either a observation that most common materials, like PVC pipes, make interesting noises whilst struck. A class action has invented many different instruments utilized in their shows & sound recording. Enrolled on this button come two or three of the further commons & easily-known ones.

PVC. A PVC is an instrument mass produced away from Two" PVC pipe. The pipes are cut to exact lengths and the performer plays the instrument by striking one of the open ends with a closed-cell foam rubber paddle. In the live shows, three separate PVC instruments are used, one for low, mid, and high octaves. This instrument also comes in a "back pack" variety for portability, which comes optionally equipped with confetti/streamer shooters. The "floor" PVC units are generally painted with phosphorescent dye invisible under normal lighting conditions, but of visibly different colors under ultraviolet light. During a performance, levels of such are generally adjusted to give the PVC the appearance of changing from white to colorful.

Tubulum. Similar in concept to the PVC, the tubulum uses much larger size PVC pipe and has cardboard or rubber "reeds" on the end that are struck with drumsticks. (These drumsticks are held reversed; it is the handle of the stick striking the tubulum, not the head. This can be observed in a live performance of Your Attention, in which one performer alternates between drums and a tubulum; he retains the same drumsticks, but flips them when moving between instruments.) This gives the tubulum a more "updated" sound than the PVC; in fact, the synthesizer-like sound quality of the instrument inspired Blue Man Group's cover of "I Feel Love" by Donna Summer. The tubulum is designed for playing bass notes, so the tubes must be sufficiently long to generate the low sounds. Because of the unavoidably large size of this instrument, the performance venues for the theatrical shows in New York, Boston, and Chicago are not physically large enough to contain it. A more compact tubulum was used on the Complex Rock Tour (& in the video for "I Feel Love"); the tubes twist around for extra length, below the frame that holds the tube "heads". A backpack tubulum, with the same streamer-launching abilities of the backpack PVC, is used in the Las Vegas, Berlin, and Toronto shows.

Airpoles. Airpoles are hollow fiberglass boat antennae of various lengths. The instrument is sharply swung to create a "whoosh" sound. These instruments come in three varieties. Sword airpoles are short and held on the end like a sword. Wiper airpoles are longer versions of sword airpoles. Angel airpoles are very long and are held in the middle so that both ends move in unison to create rhythmic sounds. This is supposedly one of the most difficult Blue Man instruments to learn, as it requires very precise muscle control that can take a long time to develop. Unlike most of the other instruments listed here, airpoles were not, strictly speaking, invented; they were discovered when one of the founders of the group swung a boat antenna through the air while experimenting to find new instruments.

Drumbone. The Drumbone is another instrument made from large-diameter PVC; this one uses two movable sections to alter the pitch. One performer plays the instrument with drumsticks, another moves the horizontal slide, and the third performer moves the vertical slide.

Hammered Dulcimer and Cimbalom. Although they are not inventions of the Blue Man Group, these instruments are played with drumsticks rather than the usual felt hammers. This gives the instrument a much move aggressive sound with a sharp attack. Because of the nature of Blue Man Group's music, only a few notes of each instrument tend to be used on any given performance; to minimize the odds of sour notes, multiple adjacent strings are generally tuned to the same note.

Dogulum. This instrument is "played" by taking Chris Wink's dog and stroking him rhythmically until the dog enters a state of Zen-like complete contentment; the dog is then recorded, and the vibe is included on the album mix.

Piano Smasher. The Piano Smasher is a piano stripped down to its frame and stood up on its side. It is played by hitting the strings with a large soft mallet, resulting in a clangy, almost discordant sound. In live performances, this instrument is generally played with a MIDI system, using sensors behind the strings, as the instrument goes out of tune very quickly. Each Piano Smasher is tuned to only one or two notes, as it would be otherwise impossible to get anything resembling a musical tone from the instrument.

Shaker gong. A Shaker Gong is a matrix of ball bearings inside a steel casing, suspended from a frame by surgical tubing. It is struck with a mallet to produce a sharp, lingering sound vaguely reminiscent of a rattlesnake.

Music and tours
In 1999, the group released their first audio recording, appropriately called Audio. Although it contained the music from the venue production, it was less of a soundtrack and more a collection of full-length instrumentals that featured the new instruments. The group participated in Moby's Area2 tour in 2002, giving a more rock-oriented performance than in the theatrical shows. Songs developed during this tour appeared on 2003's The Complex. Unlike its predecessor, The Complex featured a variety of vocalists including Tracy Bonham, Dave Matthews, Gavin Rossdale and Venus Hum. The record spawned its own 2003 tour, the first headlined by the Blue Man Group. The tour cleverly deconstructed the traditional rock concert experience into its often clichèd parts and was later chronicled on DVD in 2004.

Advertisements
When Blue Man Group was still based in New York, they ran a variety of fake advertisements in The Village Voice.

The group achieved widespread visibility when they appeared in an Intel advertising campaign for Pentium 3 and Pentium 4 CPUs as well as Centrino technology [http://www.ephinx.com/tvadverts/tvadvert.php?id=90 (Centrino advert)].

Blue Man Group also "appeared" on animated tv show The Simpsons as part of one of the couch gags, had guest appearances in The Drew Carey Show, and appeared in an informational video played continuously at security checkpoints in the Las Vegas airport. Throughout the entire second season of Arrested Development, a running subplot was that of Tobias Funke (David Cross) attempting to join the group. The group themselves were featured at least once.

In 2005, the group collaborated with artist David LaChapelle and produced several new images for upcoming ad campaigns. These images are radically different from any of the groups previous advertising and can now be see on the [http://www.blueman.com official webpage].

Community
Blue Man Group has a large following comprising a diverse group of fans from all over the world. The community is centered on the message boards on the [http://www.blueman.com/cgibin/fanboard/ultimatebb.cgi official website], as well as fan-based web sites like [http://www.bluemanlibrary.com Blue Man Library]. Blue Man Productions, the company responsible for Blue Man Group, has been extremely supportive of the fan community. Blue Man Group employees will often post messages exclusive to the fan base and participate in regularly scheduled chat sessions at [http://www.bluemanlibrary.com Blue Man Library].

Controversy
Announcing their debut in Toronto, Ontario in 2005, the Blue Man Group attracted considerable controversy for opting not to use unionized workers for their show, which many labour groups regarded as being highly unusual for a show of its size in Canada.

Their June 20, 2005 premiere in Toronto was picketed by members of the Canadian Actors' Equity Association, the Toronto Musicians' Association, and two locals of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.

Discography

Audio
Audio CD LP (1999)

Audio DVD-audio LP with 5.1 surround sound mix (2000)

The Complex
The Complex CD LP (2003)

The Complex DVD-audio LP with 5.1 surround sound mix (2004)

Videography
The Complex Rock Tour Live DVD (2003)

Side Projects
Uberschall Transit - [http://www.transitband.com (website)] Thirsty - [http://www.thristyband.com (website)] Red Means Go - [http://www.redmeansgo.net (website)] Troubadours - [http://www.downstateproductions.com (website)] The Job - [http://www.whatisthejob.com (website)] The Tiny Specks - [http://www.thetinyspecks.com (website)] Hot Fo' Gandhi - [http://www.hotfogandhi.com (website)]