Lexie does such great graphic design work that, as a token of appreciation, one of her managers gave her 2 tickets to see "Stomp" at the theatre last night. And being such a great room mate, she took me. Bless.
I hadn't seen the show before, but Lexie had. It's quite similar to the Aussie tapdogs troupe, in terms of amazing rhythms and dance and percussion with the most unlikely props. Last night for instance, the musicians made fantastic sounds with empty 11-litre spring water containers. And metal chairs. And even kitchen sinks.
They fed off each others energy and it was contagious. I was bopping along in my seat, enjoying every minute. And when the audience was invited to clap along and contribute to the rhythm of the final 'number', I realised why I hate audience participation. We absolutely sucked. Individually we might have been able to keep up the pace but collectively, we were awful. Completely incapable of clapping in time. Fortunately the performers just bashed their drums louder to drown us out.
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George's saying is "Those who can do, those you can't teach". In this case, those who can't try to participate and those who can drown them out.
Oh well.
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