Blue Man in Boston
"Tubes," Charles Playhouse, 12/03/00

OK, so it was Sunday morning and I was as excited as I'd been in a long time. I mean, c'mon now I woke up at 6:30 and GOT UP. Since when does THAT happen, voluntarily? Yeesh! Anyways. I was ready way before it was time to leave.

We picked up my friend Erin and drove to Boston. We almost couldn't find a place to park, but we did all right and got there by 2:00 [note: as requested in advance by Sharon, a BMG employee who moderated the message board at the time], an hour before showtime. We were just kinda standing around before the show, because the ticket guy said to wait (my dad asked where we should go). Then Karen, a BMG employee, came and asked if we were Erin and Jen, and when we confirmed that, she had us wait in the bar for minnie and hannah. She gave us little goody bags... Including a white shirt (extra large! hehe), that blinkin' bouncy ball (that thing is awesome...I'm so easily amused!), keychain, CD case, and best of all... A holiday notecard (mine was the "gift giving" one) that says "Happy Holidays Eternallyblue! You rule!" signed BMG Founders Chris, Matt, and Phil. I had to laugh at how unintelligable Matt's name is on there. Even though I know it's his, I still can't make out any letters. Heh.

Then minnie came, and soon after, hannah and her friend Christina. They were all SO NICE!! Karen took us backstage (reminding us not to lean on any walls because there is blue paint EVERYWHERE), but it was a short tour because everything is so tiny there. The coolest thing was where the band sits. I bet you get an awesome view of the audience during KLF up there.

Finally, the show. I'm not going to tell about skits or anything, but let me tell you, the Boston show is SO much different than Vegas. Of course, I was way in the back in Vegas and close to the front in Boston anyways, so it was just a huge contrast there. But the whole Boston experience was just incredibly intimate.

I was in the LED... As the flight attendent thingy. I had to point out the emergency exits. *LOL* I was like, "uh oh, where are the emergency exits?! Ah!" Erin was in it too, thanks to luxor and me; she won the pulitzer prize.

The first time the blue men wandered into the audience, one of them (the Chris part) came right over to Erin and I and just stared at me for like a solid 10-15 seconds. I was just smiling at him and after like 6 seconds I was thinking, "he's still staring at me...what do I do? Eek! Cool!!!!" and then he looked at Erin and she squirmed like crazy.
After the paper was all bunched on stage at the end of KLF, Erin and I got up and danced around... This was while the blue men were jumping up and down in unison; I think they noticed us because we were the only ones standing and dancing. (All the vegetables! *LOL*)
And at the very end, when they extend their hands to each section of the audience, the one that came to stare at us did it again to our section, looking right at Erin and I. It was so cool! We think part of the reason for him singling us out was our shirts that we were wearing (that we got in our goodie bag).

After the show, we all got to wait in the lobby so we could meet the blue men and band members and take pictures after the rest of the crowd was gone. The one that stared at us (later learned his name is Bryce, by the way) was the first to come up; he was wicked nice and he talked to us. Karen introduced us all, and he recognized minnie from the HMV thing (don't know if he recognized hannah too?)... And when he saw Erin and I, he was like, "oh yeah, I saw you in the audience" (with a little smile). Heh. Of course he did, he stared right at us!
We all stood in a big group for pictures, and Bryce had his left arm around Erin and his right around me. His head bumped into mine while we were all squeezing close so I got a blue streak in my hair (just like I've always wanted! Haha!). I was kinda leaning against him so I got his yellow paint on the back of my shirt.

This picture cracks me up... I look really dumb in it (I have no idea why my tongue is sticking out like that), but oh well... the expression on Bryce's face is hilarious. I think he just noticed the big blue smudge he got in my hair when he bumped into me. From left to right, it's Hari (drummer), Blue Man Andrea, Sharon (aka minnie), me, Blue Man Bryce (my favorite!), Erin, Jeff (zither player), Blue Man General (Matt part), and Hannah. And yes, there was a female blue man, which Erin and I had already known--otherwise we never would have suspected... she played the Phil Part, by the way.

The band guy on the left here is Robb (Chapman Stick player). I rather enjoy this pic... Bryce actually looks kinda spacey. Heh. We were all kinda squished... Erin looks really funny, all squirmish, since General is looking at her like that.

I love how Bryce and Robb are the only ones paying any attention to the camera in this photo. I think we were all talking/listening to someone on the side, probably Karen.

And finally, here's all of us, minus poor Robb, together. Hannah's in the front this time, and that's her friend Christina on the right. Erin thought Jeff (band guy behind her) was really cute. Haha! Just thought I'd stick that little tidbit of info in here somewhere. (and hahah Bryce! He's so cute.)

After the pictures, Erin turned to Bryce and said (really innocent and corny-like), "can I have a kiss?" and he gave her one, very carefully and sweetly. Then he turned right to me and kissed me without a word (I didn't even have to ask! And I got my blue kiss!! ). So then I was like (still smiling my face off obviously), "OK, I have to kiss you now. Because luxor, on the message board, says I have to kiss a blue man, so I'm going to." I'm sure it was more detached than that... I'm sure I was babbling. *LOL* And I used an excuse, but really, I just wanted to kiss him (I guess I thought that I had to kiss a Blue Man sometime, and it might as well be him!). Hehe. And he went, "OK" with a little smile on his face, then leaned over a bit so I could reach him. You know, it's really hard not to get blue all over your face when you kiss a blue man. *LOL*! Next thing I knew, Erin had blue ALL over her face... I mean, everywhere...

...apparently she got kissed by Bryce on both cheeks, and kissed by General on her forehead, and she kissed both Bryce and General twice (what a slut!! haha, just kidding). So she had the paint on her lips really thick. I, on the other hand, look like I'm drooling blue man blood or something. Ew. Maybe kissing Bryce wasn't such a great idea after all.
Soon afterwards, General put a fingerprint on my face and then kissed my other cheek when Erin poked him and asked him to. (She was having a field day with this, eh?) ...You should've seen the looks on everyone's faces when we stopped at Wendy's on the way home! Haha!

It all went by so fast... Suddenly Andrea, General, and Bryce were leaving. But Bryce was the last to get leave the lobby, and poked his head out the door, where he waved and smiled a little and said "Bye" real quietly. He was really, really, nice and gentle. =) Just like I hoped the first blue man to give me a blue kiss would be! Ha-ha. Wow that was cheesy.

Oh, and the band members were great too! Especially since there was only three of them and you could really pick out each one's part (which was really cool). My mom was talking to them afterwards for a little, she said, which is neat. The bandies ROCKED! Literally!

After the performers were gone, we took a couple more pictures...

What a classic picture to put in one of those 'best friends' frames... OK, well it's kind of a strange picture, as far as pictures go... nevermind.

Awww... this picture is cute. Aside from the fact that I look idiotic.

Also, I got Andrea's spin-art from the show (bought it for $25, I was very pleased with the bargain)! No one happened to buy it that night, so I snagged it after all the meet-and-greet action was over. It's beeeautyful.

On a random note, Hannah made us cookies, and the blue men too! It was really cute. Both hannah and minnie were really cool and nice and just as sweet and cute as they are on the board. It was great!!!!!!!

Anywho, I HAD AN AWESOME TIME!! I loved it soooooo much...
THANK YOU BLUE MAN GROUP!!!!! And Sharon!! And CMP for that card! And Karen, and Bryce and Andrea and General!!! You all rock! And I WANT TO GO BACK ASAP!! Hehe.