SINGAPORE — There is a reason the Blue Man Group has been around for 25 years. To put it simply, it’s not just three bald and blue guys beating on drums and PVC pipes of various shapes and sizes.

Performing in Singapore for the very first time, the Blue Man Group’s latest production is a savvy, high-tech visual theatre set to a pulsating rock music that climaxes into an exhilarating dance party, if their opening night show at Marina Bay Sands’ MasterCard Theatre was anything to go by.

“Interaction” is the show’s buzzword and before the show even started, the group got the crowd reading hilarious ticker tape greetings out loud — all without appearing onstage.

Audience members in the first three rows were given plastic ponchos to wear before the trio performed their famous routine of frenzied paint drumming; and at one point, the blue men actually perilously climbed over the audience’s heads and seats as they looked for a volunteer to go on stage and dine with them on Twinkies (American sponge cake with banana cream filling). To her credit, the young lady who was picked sportingly went along with the gag that saw banana cream squirting everywhere. Oh, and here’s a warning for latecomers: Be prepared to be embarrassed as your mugshots will be beamed on a large screen for all to boo at.

Comedic high jinks aside, the trio artfully combined music, light and technology to tantalise our senses. Backed by two bands on upper-stage platforms, multimedia screens projected scientific data on matters such as modern plumbing; how the eye retina works and our obsession with mobile gadgets, before the trio took to the stage pounding on either weirdly shaped drums or PVC pipes, or both.

The audience was also exhorted to perform movements such as “fist pump”, “raising the roof” and “waving your hands in the air like you just don’t care” with gusto.

Of course, the Blue Man Group performing here is not the original trio of Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton, who created the blue character in 1991. With those pioneers now in managerial roles, younger performers today carry the mantle in cities such as Las Vegas, Orlando, New York and Berlin.

The 90-minute-long show ended on a high as giant balls and streamers came raining down on a totally hyped-up audience, along with a giant puppet version of the digital man dancing on stage.

We were only brought back to reality the moment the announcer requested, “Can we please have our balls back? Thank you.”

Our verdict about the Blue Man Group? The hype is real, catch them here if you can.