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...What does the word 'stomp' make you think of?" asks Stomp's official web site. "Music, dance, theatre, choreography or performance art? All of the above! Or is it none of the above...
Fitting itself into a single tidy category is one of the very few things that Stomp seems to have been unable to accomplish. The loud, gritty, percusion-oriented show has been touring the world for the past seven years, breaking box-office records and snapping up awards like flies--an Olivier in London, an Obie and a Drama Desk in New York. Now one of the show's two U.S. touring casts is back in Boston, gearing up for what looks like yet another sell...
...Well, the Internet name game is big money now ? "business.com" recently sold for $150,000 ? and a growing cadre of Netizens see InterNIC's monopoly as a rude stomp in the public domain...
Towards the end of the production, it almost seems that the music unifies the disparate elements of 'Shlemiel' and carries the musical to success. Grandmothers and small children alike stomp their feet and clap their hands with enthusiasm-and the entire audience joins the players in a sort of joyous festival. Because everyone has come to enjoy the production, the goofiness of 'Shlemiel' doesn't annoy such a sympathetic crowd. Its silliness and the exhaustion of one-liners in a skewed way adds to the twisted or morbid fascination that it evokes...
...country star's first five songs were clogged with enough sex and violence to do Bone Thugs-N-Harmony proud. Brooks kicked things off with the country-rock song Rodeo ("Well, it's bulls and blood/ It's dust and mud"), followed that with the homicidal country stomp Papa Loved Mama ("Mama's in the graveyard/ Papa's in the pen") and also churned out a theatrical rendition of The Thunder Rolls, a song that ends with a woman reaching for a pistol to kill her cheatin' man ("Tonight will be the last time/ She wonders where he's been...