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The Cody Rivers Show in: Meanwhile Everywhere
Under St. Marks Theatre - NYC

THE CODY RIVERS SHOW impresses as powerfully and uniquely as “Blue Man Group” did when it first appeared years ago: original brilliance. Two men, Andrew Connor and Mike Mathieu, wearing brightly-colored satin wrestlers’ costumes, perform perfectly synchronized, mostly abstract movements and dance while telling stories and reciting punchlines.

And their verbal riffs tickle the mind as they fix a car using familiar foreign words to describe auto parts, as they do an interview in Greenland, as they do a romance between two chairs, and perform a sketch on “Opposite Night.”

There is nothing like this act-- original physical and intellectual comedy, terrific Mime and puppetry renditions, and all totally without profanity. This is a great family show, and if the right booker sees them they should be on all the late night talk shows, and eventually a top Las Vegas act making the big bucks. Of course, in Showbusiness, one never knows, do one?

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