(baby cooing)
(baby crying)
Well, we're up.
This is Mark Frankel from blue man group,
getting ready to
(baby cooing)
start my day, and my 60 mile commute
down to the theater to perform.
The Astor Place theater.
(baby laughing)
I guess that's funny.
(pvc pipes clanging)
(drumsticks hitting pvc pipes)
All right, post sound check.
Heading to the dressing room.
Yeah!
The DR.
The inside.
The deepness.
Deepness.
The deepest of the deepness.
All right.
Come on in.
Oh, check this out guys.
Look at this.
(wind-up toy zipping)
It's going to blow everyone's minds.
That's four seconds no one can ever get back.
(laughing)
Okay, now that I got my ears,
my ears as we call them or the in-ears,
they got to get wedged into my actual ears.
And they are medically form fitted for my ears only.
All right.
I have a PSA.
Welcome to circle meeting.
(crowd cheering)
All right, as we can see we got the
Instagram takeover, so smile at the camera.
All right, you got to cut that part out.
Bye-bye.
I can't get the door closed.
(walking up steps)
(door squeaks)
Oh, hey!
So after every show, there's a meet a greet
and it's such a pretty awesome opportunity
to connect with the audience and
just kind of bring everyone back together.
So, I'm here with the guys.
(crowd chatter)
All right,check it out.
I'm going to go get a selfie.
Oh no!
Hey, so we do three shows on the weekend,
every day, and the change-over,
the turnover is pretty crazy.
Because there's so much chaos
that's created in the show.
We have our crew working super hard.
(brooms sweeping)
To turn it over for the five o' clock show.
Oh, hey!
Where you guys going?
Why aren't you talking to me?
Hey!
All right, we're going to go check out
what the crew is doing during the change over.
There's a lot of props they got to reset,
and a lot of consumables they have to remake.
So, we're going to go see how that happens right now.
Look at all that delicious paint.
Yeah, the yellow I can't imagine what.
I guess lemonade, not really.
Lemonade, coconut.
That's it.
Right?
These are the concentrated ones,
so they have to have water added to just the straight paint.
It does taste coconuty.
(laughing)
Shhh.
Jenn!
(Jenn screaming)
(Jenn laughing)
I knew you were there, I knew it.
We're going up to the band loft.
(zither tuning)
Tuning.
Tuning the Zither here.
A lot of strings.
Something like 82 strings in total, I believe.
It's a few more than a guitar.
A little bit.
(strings tuning)
Go.
(grunting)
This is the band, pre-show, warming up.
Jenn!
(Jenn laughing)
I was almost expecting it.
Too soon, too soon.
(Jenn laughing)
Sorry, no photos, you can't come in here.
(music drones out woman)
Okay.
All right, all right.
(crowd cheering)
Okay, so I hope you enjoyed those audience
and backstage POV shots.
Very exclusive.
And I only got caught by house management once.
Which is good.
I'm Pete Simpson and I'm taking you to the
final show of the night,
the world renowned 8:00 pm show, come along.
Hello again, so I've been a blue man
since the summer of 1996.
I don't know what that is in like, blue dog years,
but it's been a long time.
So, I'm going to throw in a few blue man group
historical tidbits along the way,
while I show you some of my pre-show
rituals and stuff, all right stay tuned.
Okay, so I'm the longest serving blue man, at 23 years,
and over four thousand shows.
I guess we're going to do some history angles on this.
For instance, a schedule of 1996,
and if I turn the page to October,
is my first show ever.
Right there.
October 2nd, New York, eight o' clock.
Whoa.
Hello, taking you back in history again.
This was a magazine called explore, 2001.
(pages turning)
Oh my gosh.
I don't have any wrinkles in there.
(drumsticks hitting drum)
Hey everybody, I hoped you enjoyed this
little taste of our triple show day,
here at blue man group.
Hope to see you at Astor Place theater really soon,
signing off, Pete, Mark, and Bhurin.
Bye!