Stomp show9/3/2023 ![]() We’ll try and probably even fail, but the point is that he has taken inspiration from what he saw on stage.īecause “STOMP” takes everyday objects, everyday moments and everyday people and invites us to do what kids already do best: imagine. “I call this ‘Bounce,’” he proudly proclaimed. He's already asked if we can make some of the seemingly simpler instruments that we saw performers use on stage: the plastic bag drum and a pipe chime. This morning, my 6-year-old son took a ball from his room and playfully bounced out rhythms onto the hardwood floor of our kitchen. After the show, they had plenty of questions about how performers pulled off various sounds, visual effects and movements. The array of sounds that are made from shapes of different pipes, trapped air, rustling sand and water especially fascinated my kids. "STOMP" created by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholasīest of all, “STOMP” might just be the most entertaining STEAM lesson my kids get all year. Performers invite the audience into a series of call-and-response-style clap-backs they riff on ambient sounds in the theater and mime various vignettes with plenty of slapstick and potty humor to keep kids laughing. The result is a delightfully playful symphony of sounds and movements sure to enthrall even the youngest, most novice theater-goers. Short, easy-to-follow story lines frame each percussive performance scene. Kids will love that nothing is off limits. ![]() Items are thrown across, over, under, off and on stage. Really, it's everything - including the kitchen sink - used to create a variety of innovative and makeshift instruments. The set and props are a colorful mishmash of discarded, banged-up street signs, rain-barrel drum kits, tin-can symbols, newspapers, matchboxes, sand, plastic bags, buckets, garbage cans and inner tubes. Kids will relate to the playful exploration of rhythm and movement that makes up “STOMP.” That's because “STOMP” is “ loose parts” play, all grown up, as performers explore the sounds and movements possible when turning actual trash into treasure. "STOMP" created by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas Though “STOMP” may not be the first show that comes to mind when you think of a family holiday outing, if you’re looking to get maximum bang (heh) for your buck at a family-friendly show this season, “STOMP” is it. 8 at Seattle's Moore Theatre, is a perfect introduction to the arts for families. ![]() At first glance, it may appear to be child’s play, but the skillful succession of synchronizations that makes up STG Presents’ “ STOMP” is anything but. The one-hour and forty-five minute show, on stage through Dec. The two British-born percussionists, composers and performers first worked together in 1981 as members of the street band Pookiesnackenburger and the theater group Cliff Hanger.Stick fights. (Call it an exercise in rhythm and blues.)īefore the East Village: A commercial for…apples…done in 1992 for the Austrailian Horticultural Society by Steve McNicholas and Luke Cresswell, the duo who created Stomp the year before. “While we’re sad to see it close at the Orpheum Theater, we couldn’t be prouder of the impact that ‘Stomp’ has had - and will continue to have - as the tours run both here and in Europe,” the producers said in a statementīelow are videos of their performances over the years. “Stomp” is coming to an end in New York City after 29 years for the same reason that “Phantom of the Opera” is after 35 - ticket sales have not picked up when in-person reopened after the pandemic lockdown. 27, 1994, creates a wordless percussive dance using martial arts sticks and drumsticks, hands and feet, brooms and buckets and dust bins, oil cans and garbage cans and garbage can lids - also the occasional zippo lighter and shopping cart. The show, ensconced at the Orpheum Theater in the East Village since Feb. After 29 years and 11,472 Performances, “ Stomp” will play its final performance on January 8, 2023.
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