i just got back from vegas. las vegas is all the glitter of new york city and absolutely none of the substance ...and dressed head to toe in really bad leopard print and gold lamè.i saw blue man group which is now at the venetian. i had seen "tubes" way back in the day during blue man's explosion onto the new york off-broadway scene at the astor place theater, but i was really not expecting the same thing. score one for the intuition. the vegas version, while making a valient attempt at expanding the show to a MUCH larger audience, made me feel like i was watching it on disney property. the "theme park" like crowd had no energy and while some of the vignets that were going on onstage were mindbogglingly fun, the crowd, filled with big texas hair and male pony-tails, was about as clueless as paul lynn at a college football game.now i'm sick. * cough *