Stomp musical free#
The show is arranged to be free people are allowed to be themselves and that life comes through." "It's not meant to be philosophical," says Sinclair, "but the thing that does affect you deeply is people getting on stage and being spirited. Though McNicholas and Cresswell say they created STOMP purely for entertainment purposes, the experience still manages to enlighten. They could go home, beat on any of this stuff and make music." "They didn't need a drum set to become a drummer. "We were doing things that they could do," Shead says. The troupe's " do try this at home, folks" material even proved perfect for an audience of inner-city kids in Detroit. Since its birth, STOMPers have made appearances on the Academy Awards and the Tank Girl soundtrack and won numerous awards, including an Obie and the Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatre Experience.
Now, the troupe goes through 84 brooms in a mere three weeks, though limes are still excluded from the instrumental lineup. McNicholas teamed up with Luke Cresswell to form the original STOMP troupe in England in 1991. Supposedly, the swish of bristles and thud of discarded limes inspired McNicholas to create a program of drumming and dance honoring the totally conventional. Co-creator Steve McNicholas witnessed his mother sweeping factory floors, occasionally knocking away fruit caught between the bristles by hitting her broom against the floor. "Our humor comes out from our personalities," adds performer Kamal Sinclair, "and people being real with one another-and also from people just being goofy."Īccording to performers' lore, STOMP owes its inception to a lime factory. "It's a theater experience, not just a bunch of musicians up there playing away," says performer Henry W. Though no dialogue or plot is involved, the performances blend precise movements, energy and inescapable rhythms into something explosive yet surreal. There is a musical beauty to STOMP, but the show is also comedic and exuberant. The performers even use their own bodies to create beats, clapping to a quick tempo or producing mesmerizing sonic patterns rhythms through dance and, of course, stomping. We just haven't been using it."Īs STOMP demonstrates, rhythm can be found everywhere-in the crackle of newspapers or the clicking of Zippo lighters.
"We reintroduce people to things that they hear every day. "We see STOMP as a journey, a discovery of everyday objects and the music in the world that people take for granted," says STOMP performer Steven Dean Davis. The percussion wizards and theatrical magicians of STOMP enlist ordinary objects for unusual purposes as they translate sound into rhythm, and silence into song. KNOTTED ENGLISH tea towels serve as mallets for oil-barrel drums poles and hammer handles do double duty as drum kits trash-can lids stand in for cymbals. STOMP turns everyday sounds into tapestry of musical delight
Bang the Objects, Quickly: If it clangs, clicks or clunks, STOMP can build a dance and percussion routine around it.
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