Music
can come from the most surprising of places. STOMP markes two decades since it
was first created in the UK with a tour that is running at the Jubilee
Auditorium until November 27th.
The concept sees a group of performs doing
different numbers while creating sounds out of a variety of objects. Workboots,
brooms, basketballs, garbage cans, and the audience are just a few of the
things that are combined to create sound and rhythm.
For a show without a soundtrack, plot or dialogue it is quite funny, which
speaks to the creativity of both the original design of the show as well as the
performers ability to portray that. Exasperated and exaggerated facials and
movements show the mock displeasure when the audience messes up a clapping
segment, while one of the characters seems to offend others frequently through
the show with his showboating.
Some of the standouts numbers include a session with sinks, pots, and glasses,
a rousing percussion session from performers swinging along the top of the
stage, and a scene that amazingly creates multiple layers of sound using just
newspapers.
STOMP is a show that people should see at least once. It may not grip you in
the same way that a song from a musical, or a especially powerful moment in a
play does, but you can't help but be amazed and delighted by how simple things
can create music. 