“Stomp,” the show that repurposed mundane items like brooms and metal trash can lids to create a percussive stage spectacle, will end in New York on January 8, 2023, as announced by its producers. However, tours in North America and Europe will continue.
Created and directed by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, “Stomp” was an immediate hit when it premiered at the Orpheum Theatre in the East Village on February 27, 1994.
The show “is stomped, played, swung, clicked, and stepped on by eight choreographed percussionists,” wrote Stephen Holden in his 1994 review for The New York Times.
The New York production will close due to a decline in ticket sales, the program said.
The news comes shortly after the closure of long-running Broadway shows like “Come From Away” and “Dear Evan Hansen” and the announcement that Broadway’s longest-running show, “The Phantom of the Opera,” will have its final performance in April of next year. All these shows cited the damage caused by the long shutdown due to the pandemic and the fact that audiences have not fully returned to theaters as reasons for their closure.
When “Stomp” ends, it will have made a total of 11,472 regular performances.
Few shows have had such staying power, let alone widespread popularity around the globe—with performances reaching the United Arab Emirates, Australia, Japan, and Norway, among dozens of other locations.