“Hey!” is a word that is used to get attention, and the Australian-bred dancing team, Tap Dogs, knows it.

Otherwise, members wouldn’t have yelled it continuously Wednesday night to draw attention during their tap dancing.

Oh yeah, and they also managed to turn a few heads while tapping to rhythmic sparks of fire, sloshing water in sync and a tapping around a steadily bouncing basketball.

Judging from the layout of the stage at the beginning of the concert, though, there was no way to predict the extreme excitement the evening would hold.

Before the tapping started, a lonely, tall, ribbed piece of metal accented by strips of thick, faded neon blue in the middle of the Stephens Auditorium stage didn’t reveal much.

But once the concert started, the Tap Dogs revealed that there was much more on stage behind that piece of metal.

Among the surprises was a platform that raised into various ramps. During the ramp dances, the tappers took turns dancing up and down the ramps one by one. However, two of the dancers would come together for a “sporadic” ramp dancing duo every once in a while.

During the ramp dancing part of the show, the lights on stage were positioned in such a way that the enlarged shadows of the dancers could be seen dancing on the left wall of the auditorium.

The special lighting effect made it possible for the audience members to see even the most intricate dancing moves without looking at the stage.

As a segue into the next number, the ramps raised and were transformed into ladders on which the dancers began tapping up and down in sync.

Other surprises occurred later in the show during what could be considered the wet portion of the night. As water was brought on stage, the first three rows of the audience, who had obviously been pre-warned, promptly put on white ponchos, making the rest of the audience think the first rows were in for a nice big splash.

Slowly, four of the dancers dipped feet in the rectangular tub of water and began sloshing around in rhythm. Eventually, the dancers started rhythmically flicking water at each other, and then flicking water at the audience until the end, when the other two members of the company came on stage to pour a “surprise” bucket of water on the four whose feet had been in the tub.

Despite the puddles of water on stage, the dancers continued the rest of their routine as if the water wasn’t there. Every so often during the intense, hard-rocking grand finale, the audience could see random water being sloshed around, left over from the previous number.

But what’s one more abnormality during a night of surprises?