With my daughter's interest in music and general noisemaking, I figured she would appreciate STOMP Live. If you gauge appreciation by the amount of time that she sat still and watched, then she appreciated most of the production, and none of the special features. One of the reasons she might have been a little bored with STOMP is due to the fact that it's not animated, but the outfits the cast sported were not all that glittery and glitzy. Granted the performers create their own characters, complete with outfits, so STOMP continues to change and evolve as the years progress.
I had seen some previous productions of STOMP and have always enjoyed their passion and energy. This DVD had a couple of new numbers, such as the sinks (Rini thought it was funny when they were draining them into the cans), the sand scraping (Rini exclaimed that they were making a mess), and the newspapers. (Rini thought they were being silly, and one guy was quite the screwball)
Whether Rini fully appreciated the mixture of rhythm, dance, and music that was produced from this organized chaos I'm not sure. On the other hand, I could see her enjoying this later on when her attention span is long enough to be measured in minutes rather than nanoseconds.
Yet STOMP is a very engaging production. You have people using all sorts of materials to create a musical production, like matchboxes, and every number uses something different. Then again, perhaps that's where the difficultly lies. So much change, and it's a bit of an overload on the senses.
I would love to watch this again with her, but I wouldn't bring this on a road trip. Then again, there would be no annoying songs to sing.
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