For the new Las Vegas staging of the 15 year old international
sensation, we were commissioned to create a vast 30,000 square foot
environment that would properly situate the iconic world of Stomp in a
scale appropriate for Las Vegas. Produced in a newly built 1500 seat
proscenium theater, the designed space would encompass an 8000 square
foot lobby, an audience pass-thru corridor, towering walls of the
auditorium, and the stage space itself. Critically, the challenge was
to create a surprising, interactive, and enveloping world in which
visitors’ eyes would be opened wider than expected, on entering this
place amidst the gloss and glare of Las Vegas casinos and clubs.On first entering the Lobby, guests are greeted by open mesh steel
walls, collaged with a random assortment of spin-able objects - dart
boards, roulette wheels, tires, trash can lids, and more. Beyond this
screen, the visual anchor of the Lobby sits - a 15’ diameter roulette
wheel, reconstituted as a fountain. The surrounding environment is
filled with dimensional collages, unexpected and interactive, on walls
and above on the ceiling. From this experiential lounge, the audience
passes through to the auditorium, wherein nearly every inch of wall
space is covered with old signage, car parts, industrial detritus, and
much more. Las Vegas turned inside-out, unfolded, unhinged, and strung
up on the walls all over. The expansive, operatic scale of the Stomp
visual language simply prepares the audience for the live spectacle to
come. The iconic stage of trussing and metal objects has been
re-branded with monolithic Las Vegas game wheel, mounted on the back
wall of the stage space. Composed of found objects, light reflectors,
street signs over a metal armature, the wheel is a harmonious blend of
the tactile hand-made world of Stomp and the flashing, spinning,
bing-bong of casino land.