Post 5: RANDOM IDEAS FOR THE STAGE SHOW

     Draw inspiration from the Blue Men last shows, which now use a lot of projection, balloons, lasers, BIG LED Panels, and take out the blue:  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wENtnlkLbX4    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bol07E6rt3c

     Also think Cirque du Soleil.

    Make musical instruments: electric washtub and broomstick bass, Long String Harp, BIG drums:

 and gongs, thunder panels, a plastic pipe organ:

Explore sounding the pipes individually with a compressor, coiled hose and nozzle:    

Which can also be used to inflate BIG balloons right on stage during the show:

• Light up instruments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R09qVSOL5Ko   
  
  
  
  
  
• Use recycled instruments: 55 gl drums, garbage cans, 5 gl buckets, pots and pans, wooden spoons, etc... (how about it John?):

• Use exotic instruments: jamaican steel drums, guatemalan marimba, cytar, Musical Saw, etc...  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Use unusual voices: counter tenor, deep booming Robeson type bass, Bulgarian voices, etc... Use Nicholas Lens music.
• Stage set with many different levels, with platforms, boxes, scaffolds, flying cable, trapeze, ropes, cut out luminescent shapes, etc..
• Suspended Light Sculptures like Randy's Styrofoam piece:   
• Visually defy gravity:    
  
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-RXohKepp4
• Use fire? Or at least sparklers:  
  
• EL wire on black costumes, but also lighted sculptural costumes with LEDS, etc...(how about that Vera?):    
  
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S2cjuTAk-g
• Black light:  
  
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozHAkApTlDg&list=PLAF04DEF5EF730D17      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_9iXFeu5ZA&list=PLAF04DEF5EF730D17&index=33
• Bring a white horse on stage with black lights.
• Shadows in front of projection on scrim(think Balinese Puppet Theatre): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bS1B11-ey4   
  

• Bring the show out into the audience
• Projections on side walls and ceiling, and above the stage.
• Projection on fabric panels, waving banners or loose hanging panels with fans:   
  
• Build a shallow pool of water and do an "Hommage to Pina Bausch" type Dancing in the Rain piece(get ready Mary!), while rear projecting on mist using a 16 ft ring(think BIG Liesa, Tony and Christophe!):     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aANfMDccoy0