Contact
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Contact is a musical "dance play" that was developed by Susan Stroman and John Weidman, with its "book" by Weidman and both choreography and direction by Stroman. It ran both Off-Broadway and on Broadway in 1999–2002.
- Opened
- 2000
- Performances
- 1,010
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Won the Tony Award for Best Musical, 2000.
Productions2 on Broadway
| 2000 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Original. March 30, 2000 | 1,010 performances · 1 Tony wins |
| 2002 | Sondheim Theatre Original. May 10, 2003 |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing not confirmed
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27 passages naming Contact, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
In some of these shows, such as Contact (2000), plots unfold through dance. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p122
as opposed to Contact with its prerecorded music, Movin’Out uses live music, led by piano-playing Michael Cavanagh. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p268
two months prior to Swing!’s premiere, the song had been featured in Susan Stroman’s Off-Broadway dance musical Contact (which transferred to Broadway a few months later) book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p401
When Contact won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2000, it was clear that the dansical had arrived, although director/choreographer Susan Stroman’s work was advertised as ‘a dance play’. Here the emphasis is on dance and book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p385
Fastest Costume Change: | believe this award has to go to anyone who plays Alexi Darling in the show, played now by our lovely Mayumi Ando. In Act II Alexi does a voicemail that is followed immediately by “Contact.” book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-1-2005-may-31-2006-viagas-robert-second-annu#p334
“Making Contact,” the bowling team consisting of members who have stayed together from the closed show Contact, won first place in the semi-annual Broadway Show Bowling League Championship February 9 at the Leisure Time Lanes. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-1-2005-may-31-2006-viagas-robert-second-annu#p456
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