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There'll be a whole lot of stomping at the Hawaii Theatre this Christmas season when the show of the same name, "STOMP," returns to for its third run in four years. ‘STOMP’ returns
to Honolulu"STOMP" will run Dec. 20-31 at the Bethel Street venue. Tickets are $25-$49.50 and available at the theater box office and Ticket Plus. To charge by phone call 528-0506 or 526-4400. "STOMP" is an energetic mixture of music, dance, theater, choreography and performance art with the nonstop movement of bodies, objects, sounds -- even abstract ideas.
What makes the show appealing is that the cast uses everyday objects, but in nontraditional ways. There's no speech, no dialogue, not even a plot.
Have you ever composed a symphony using only matchbooks as instruments? Or created a dance routine based around sweeping? That's what this group of rhythmically gifted, extremely coordinated bodies do.
"STOMP" started stomping on the streets of Brighton, England. Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, the creators of "STOMP," were street performers, or "buskers," trying to grab people's attention.
Busking is an old custom in the United Kingdom, dating back to booth theaters erected at village fairs in the Middle Ages. Luke and Steve updated this custom and created a modern symbiotic marriage between movement and music.
"STOMP" takes the everyday sounds of pipes and brooms, and lighters and garbage pail lids, and creates the extraordinary.
Tim Ryan, Star-Bulletin
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