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A Blue Man Group performance is unpredictable but always a hoot. (Courtesy image)

BOSTON - It's inevitable that sometime during a 90-minute Blue Man Group performance you'll think you're losing your mind. In a pleasant way.

That's because the 25-year-old Blue Man Group is an assault on your senses, with a gamut of special effects from fire-beating drums to close-circuit cameras on the audience to plain old vaudevillian sight gags and shtick.

So while you become mesmerized while the three principals are engaged in some madcap scene like maybe tossing food balls 35 feet into each other's mouths (or from the audience) or Twinkies being sucked up by a vacuum cleaner than splattered from an audience member's chest, something else incongruous from a different medium happens on another part of the stage or in the audience that keeps you wondering wildly "what is going on here?"

And you know what? Don't even try to guess.

The first think we noticed upon taking our seats at the Charles Playhouse on Warrenton Street in Boston was that the front rows all had clear, plastic raincoats taped to them for audience members to don.

You see it can get a bit messy at Blue Man Group, for the audience that is.

And audience members are part of the act.

One guy got called up only to have himself shuttled off back stage where - while the audience watched on close circuit TV - he was helmeted and body socked, then soaked with paint and banged against a canvas where his enshrouded body became a work of art he likely took home for his den.

A middle-aged lady was called up for the Twinkie act and even partook of the Twinkies disengorged from the "Group's" collective stomachs. Yuck. But what a sport she was!

The BMG takes on everything from cellphones and the wired generation to shaking you bootie to make it all right.

Through it all they stalk the audience always looking with those piercing eyes and blue countenances for their next foil, er victim.

No vulgarity alert: This is a G-rated show with plenty of double entendre that will keep kids of all ages fast in their seats, if you're lucky!

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