Audio By Carbonatix
One of the best field trips of my high-school career in the Chicago ‘burbs was to the city’s Briar Street Theatre to see the Blue Man Group. I don’t remember details of the show any longer, just the sensory overload. Neon and black light. Drumming, lots of drumming. And the endless streams of toilet paper tumbling overhead.
Starting today, kids and adults in Denver can be a part of that experience at Blue Man Group: Making Waves, an interactive traveling exhibit coming to the Children’s Museum of Denver. “The whole idea is seeing sound, feeling sound, what sound is, what it looks like,” says museum marketing and communications coordinator Zoe Poltawec.
Visitors can build and play their own instruments out of PVC tubes, like the Blue Men. They’ll make colored sands dance in the sand drum, control sound with the heat of their hand on the theremin, see sound waves on the infrared oscilloscope, master the Tube Phone, Build-u-lum, Slide-u-lum and — of course — the Belly Drum Song.
Denver is just the third city to get the exhibit, after Boston and Chicago. Poltawec says the museum audience is typically newborn to age eight, but she’s confident kids as old as fourteen can get just as much out of the show.
The Children’s Museum, at 2121 Children’s Museum Drive, is open from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Admission is $7.50 for ages two to 59, $5.50 for ages one and sixty-plus. For information, call 303-433-7444 or visit www.mychildsmuseum.org.
June 2-Sept. 24, 2007
