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 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.
The opening act for their show is David Cope, a calm-speaking, pleasant, likable young man with an original slant whose unique, smart humor, aimed at the intellectual (educated? geek? perceptive?) audience, is another mind-tickler who starts you with smiles and segues into big laughs. And without profanity - what a pleasure. This is a comedian who could go all the way.
