On Wednesday, January 29th, many music students attended the Stomp Musical shown at the Alberta Bair. It was a great opportunity for each student to experience the arts in a fun way. However, the music students who went were only able to go due to the generous donation of parents in the school system. Every student who went to the musical rated it highly and enjoyed the unique, yet intriguing musical.
The musical was much different from many musicals because there was no dialogue at all. Instead, they made a lot of their music through dancing. This would include stomping, clapping, and snapping. All of it was intense choreography many students had never witnessed before. Senior, Halle Anderson, explained, “It’s the fact that they had to memorize two hours of choreography. As someone who’s been in musicals before, it is much easier to memorize dialogue and songs that it is to memorize choreography.” Like Anderson, many students were taken back by the fact that the performers memorized and preformed two full hours of choreography non-stop.
Apart from the choreography aspect of the musical, the performers also made their music with random objects such at tubes, grocery carts, plastic bags, and much more. Sophomore, Vivian Hastings, expressed how this was the amazing, drawing part of the whole musical. Hastings stated, “I couldn’t believe all of the things they were able to do with just random objects, and the way they worked was amazing. Overall, I loved it and would go again.” Hastings, and many of the students had not been exposed to that kind of musical talent, and the potential they brought out in ordinary objects.
Every student who went to Stomp were highly grateful to witness such great talent never seen in such ways before. From the great choreography, to the use of random, ordinary objects to make music was incredible and inspiring. Every student walked out the theater having experienced a unique musical, unlike any other.
