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Baltimore The Last Stop For Blue Man Group On Current Tour

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- Twenty-five years ago, three performance artists created what has become a cultural phenomenon.

As Mike Schuh reports, Baltimore is the last stop for the Blue Man Group on their current national tour.

Trying to describe the Blue Man Group is like trying to describe how something tastes. If you haven't tasted it, you just don't know.

It turns out, the Blue Men are real people. Dan and Ethan stopped by WJZ on Friday.

While they don't talk on stage, in real life -- when they're not covered in paint -- they have voices.

"You don't think of that so much as a mask as putting on a mask, you think of it as taking off our human faces," said Dan Carter, Blue Man Group.

At any one time, there are only about 50 humans in the world who get to call themselves Blue Men.

Three at a time, they manage to pull a theatre full of people in to the act.

"So much of the show is just about connecting the audience together with us. And I think it's still impressive for us to see how much you can communicate without saying a word," said Ethan Golb, Blue Man Group.

The show is far from silent. It's silly, psychedelic, nonsense that truly pulls you away from your regular life and takes you somewhere else -- a bright, loud, fun place.

"And that is part the key, is that we don't want every show to be the same -- we want it to be different. So we are encouraged as actors to make different choices every night," said ?? "We get artistic satisfaction and we're invested in it because we can help different moments in the show that are different every day we do it."

The Blue Man Group's last show in Baltimore is Saturday at 5 p.m. Tickets are still available.

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