Blue Man Group won’t waste time in cross-casino move

The Blue Man Group is known to move fast, and that won't change when it relocates from the Monte Carlo, where it plans to close Oct. 11, to the Luxor, where it plans to reopen Nov. 18 in a move mandated by its theater being torn down.

MGM Resorts announced Tuesday a 5,000-seat venue will replace the 1,274-seat theater built for magician Lance Burton. The Blue Man Group took over the venue from the dance troupe Jabbawockeez in October 2012.

Now the musical-chairs game repeats, as the Blue Man Group again relocates the Jabbawockeez, this time from the 830-seat theater designed to the dance troupe's specifications on the second floor of Luxor.

The Jabbawockeez will close at the Luxor Aug. 30 and move into the Beacher's Madhouse venue at the MGM Grand this fall. That venue had a 250-seat capacity as a club with tables and booths, but Jabbawockeez may be able to expand capacity with a different configuration. Beacher's will continue on Saturday nights as a club with environmental sideshow performers.

Jack Kenn, who oversees the Blue Man Group's Las Vegas operation, said the loss of roughly 400 seats will be made up by a flexible schedule that allows the troupe to perform more frequently during busy seasons.

The stage is significantly smaller than the Blue Men's previous venues on the Strip, and Kenn says it isn't physically possible to expand the playing area.

Even so, the content will incorporate "almost all the elements from our current show. Some of them will be scaled down," he said.

"We're going to deliver an intimate experience like our New York show, but with Vegas specacle of course," Kenn added. "It will still have the same grandeur and feel... We don't want to throw out what we did just because the space is a little smaller."

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