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| Photo Credit: Junichi Takahashi. |
It’s been around since Joan River’s original face, but Stomp, the internationally beloved percussion based stage show keeps freshening its repertoire with all new pieces to keep the show original and exciting for its fans. AND, it’s coming back to Seattle’s Paramount theater with six shows running November 9-14.
STOMP, the international sensation returns to STG’s Paramount Theatre November 9-14, 2010 with six shows. The return of the percussive hit also brings some new surprises, with some sections of the show now updated and restructured and the addition of two new full-scale routines, utilizing props like tractor tire inner tubes and paint cans.
The changes that can now be seen in the tour of STOMP are the biggest since the late 1990’s. A new piece “Paint Cans” evolved out of the “Boxes” routine in the Las Vegas show and “Donuts” is a piece that implements huge tractor tire inner tubes, worn around the waist on a bungee cord. For many years, the creators had looked for a STOMP equivalent of the Latin percussion instrument the guiro, a gourd-shaped open-ended instrument with ridges along the side that are rubbed by a wooden stick to create its sound. The climactic trashcan sequence “Bins” has been restructured to include a guiro-like new found instrument: strip-lighting recycling containers.
I’ve always wondered…if “Stomp” and “Blue Man Group” ever lose “steam”, could they merge and be “Blue Man Stomp”?
Same thing for long time favorites, “The Vagina Monologues” and “Puppetry of the Penis”….
“Marionettes of the Muff”?
“Muppetry of the Minge”?
Lots to ponder.
Check out “Stomp” this week.
– Michael Strangeways
