The pair is often creating and tweaking on the road, globe-trotting from their office in Brighton, U.K. Stomp may be the thing you take your out-of-town uncle to but, at bottom, it’s a stage show with a lot of choreography and no words. They have also been behind a crossover phenomenon, a stage production that, like “Cirque du Soleil” or the work of the Blue Man Group, has managed to become a mainstream moneymaker while still incorporating the ethos of street performance and experimental theater.
In spreading the gospel of the broom-bang, Cresswell, 50, and McNicholas, 58, have created a highly popular, occasionally chided cultural staple. PHOTOS: Best films of 2013 | Betsy Sharkey show came in New York in 1994 in February it will mark its 20th anniversary. They would go on to win a number of prizes and hit the road in places as far flung as Barcelona and Sydney. The men met in the early 1980s, playing in a street band called Pookiesnackenburger (what else?).Īfter working in alternative theater for the better part of a decade, they took their offbeat musical stylings to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the early 1990s as “Stomp,” a rollicking noise-fest that extracted music from household items. You can forgive yourself for encountering Cresswell and McNicholas and thinking you might have seen them in a Dos Equis commercial. On a visit to The Times in which he lugged a big camera, McNicholas shrugged and said “Juvenile sharks,” as though everyone would know what the statement meant (and was willing to subject themselves to its consequences). This in addition to their side gig-filming IMAX nature documentaries that have them taking dips with none-too-approachable water predators.
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