The Blue Man Group downsizes:
It’s a tough time to be a Blue Man.
Word has trickled out about significant layoffs in recent weeks at the long-running show, which has played the Briar Street Theatre in Chicago for more than a decade and also has outposts in Boston, Las Vegas and New York.
At its peak, the Chicago operation employed as many as eight blue men. Although the show uses only three at once, it offers a seasonally adjusted schedule of shows that have included as many as three shows a day.
Not right now. After the layoffs, the Chicago Blue Men are down to three full-time drummers, provocateurs and marshmallow munchers, plus a couple of part-time guys who fill in as needed. And while the schedule has always changed according to the time of year, the February slate looks much thinner than usual. The late-night show appears to have been nixed on several winter Fridays.
Doom!
Tobias wept.
damn you, billy nilly!
you beat me to it!!!!!!
Goddamn it, billy nilly! You made the only joke possible!
The Golden Corral is always hiring. I DON’T CARE IF YOU BEAT ME TO IT!
Maybe there is plummeting interest in them since all that bad press about one of the Blum Men getting busted for sucking off a guy in a park or something a couple weeks back?
LET THE GREAT EXPERIMENT BEGIN!