A strange thing happens when you talk to the Blue Man Group organization about their namesake men: If they can help it, no one uses the pronouns “I” or “we.” They artfully eschew them.
Byron Estep, BMG’s artistic director, calls any given Blue Man “the character,” as does Kalen Allmandinger, the captain of the performing company. Allmandinger appears onstage at Luxor, in the makeup, and still refers to the Blue Men as being something outside of himself.
There are a few reasons they do that. The first, and most obvious, is that the Men don’t speak; everything they communicate is done through action, facial expressions and lots and lots and lots of nuanced gestures.
