Blast! (musical)

is a Broadway production created by James Mason for Cook Group Incorporated, the director and organization formerly operating the Star of Indiana Drum and Bugle Corps.

's instrumentation is exclusively brass and percussion, a nod to the show's roots in the drum and bugle corps activity.

's performers use trumpets, flugelhorns, mellophones, baritone horns, tubas, and a full complement of percussion instruments including snare drums, tenor drums, bass drums, xylophones, vibraphones, marimbas, timpani, and other standard percussion equipment.

adds instruments not normally found in drum corps, such as French horns, concert euphoniums, trombones (including one on a unicycle during "Gee, Officer Krupke!")

II Shockwave was written to include woodwind instruments, such as flute and saxophone.

[6] Accompanying the wind and percussion is the Visual Ensemble (or VE), a group of dancers who manipulate a variety of props, similar to a color guard.

's duration is instrumentals, throwing people and flags, and a trombonist on a unicycle.

debuted in the United States on August 23, 2000, at the Wang Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

", played at the America Gardens Theatre at Epcot in Orlando, Florida for the summer of 2001, before moving to the Hyperion Theater in Disney California Adventure in Anaheim, California from November 22, 2001 until September 2, 2002.