ORONO — Trash day will never be the same for those who witnessed a scintillating performance by Stomp at the Maine Center for the Arts on the University of Maine campus Thursday evening.

The eight-member English troupe dazzled the packed house by taking common products, including several items that can be found in everybody’s garbage, and transforming them into innovative percussion instruments complete with choreographed dance movements.

It was an unforgettable evening and Stomp was appropriately rewarded with two lengthy standing ovations.

The opening routine set the stage for the magnificent show as performer and co-director Luke Cresswell initiated a rhythmic beat by tapping the stage with various parts of his broom. He also mixed in some tap dance steps and created other beats by clapping his hands together or tapping them against other parts of his body.

He soon was joined by Nick Dwyer, Sarah Eddy, Theseus Gerard, Fraser Morrison, David Olrod, Carl Smith and Fiona Wilkes, all of whom were bearing brooms.

One skit followed another, all with a different creative wrinkle.

In one skit, the eight members used rubbery tubes of varying lengths and diameters. By banging them on the stage, they initiated a hollow rhythm, reminding this baby boomer of the exhilarating drum solo on Iron Butterfly’s “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” in the late 1960s.

There was a cute skit that involved flicking lighters; one with only matchboxes; another that involved two sandwich bags, a plastic bag and an item resembling a beach ball; and yet another involving only guttural sounds and rhythms created with newspapers.

The show was, in the words of the English, “simply smashing.”

It was one spectacular highlight after the other.

The one hour and 45 minutes breezed by.

There was a captivating bit involving members of the troupe hanging from minibungee cords and doing drum solos on a junkyard backdrop of hubcaps, gasoline cans, car grills, pots and pans. The percussionists swung back and forth, tapping out the rhythm.

A few minutes later, four members of the troupe came out with 4-foot-high metal trash cans attached to each foot and created a percussion riff with their movements. In the background, Gerard pounded out a deep, hollow beat on plastic barrels.

One of the many comedic highlights had four members of the troupe making sounds in sinks attached to their waists. Morrison capped the routine by releasing water from his sink and emulating the relief of a man finding a long-awaited urinal.

Those on hand were spellbound by the show.

“One man’s garbage is another man’s music,” mused Ellsworth’s Jim Pendergist. “It was wonderful.”

Cheryl Fasse of nearby Detroit called it “innovative, creative and energetic.”

Brewer’s Bette Cozzi said, “They did so many wonderful things with nothing.”

Hudson’s Bob Ouellette raved about the “uniqueness” of the show.