Technology helps Mark Nizer add dimension to live show | The Buzz

“Don’t bring a laptop,” Nizer said. “That’d be too weird.”

For some audience members, just the thrill of not being told to turn off their phones in a theater setting will feel like getting away with something.

Others may be worried about security risks that relinquishing control in a “takeover.” Nizer gets it; he offers audience members the reassurance that “they just go to a web address, and that’s it. We’re going to use [the phones] as lighting instruments.” Without giving too much away, when hues change on Nizer’s website, they’ll ripple from screen to screen in the audience and fill the theater space with color.

No matter how involved you choose to become, you’re having an impact on the overall experience.

“The best part of the show is the interaction with the audience,” Nizer said. “It’s a big, fun night of comedy and laughter.”

To attend Friday’s show, “you have to be vaccinated, and you have to have a Mac,” he said with a chuckle. “If you could only see my MacBook Pro running the whole show. It’s a thing of beauty.”

Some have asked Nizer if he has become a prisoner of technology.

“It’s the exact opposite of that,” he said. “Instead of being imprisoned by it, I put on the suit, I walk out on stage, and all I need to do is juggle and be funny.