John Sawicki is a Stomp troupe member. From the time he began playing drums at age 5, John Sawicki made music the old-fashioned way.



Then he saw Stomp.



Now he makes music with rubber pipes and giant plastic oil drums as a cast member of the rhythmic extravaganza returning Tuesday to Chicago's Shubert Theater.



"I said to myself, 'That's something I want to do,' " says Sawicki, a second generation drummer and teacher who worked as a studio musician and played with several bands before joining the cast in 1998.