The run closed September 1, 2002
- Opened
- March 30, 2000
- Closed
- September 1, 2002
- Performances
- 1,010
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Vivian Beaumont Theater
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 17th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it38 named
Karen Ziemba Music: “My Heart Stood Still” (Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart
Performed by Stephane Grappelli); “Anitra’s Dance” from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
And “La Farandole” from “L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2” (all performed by the New York Philharmonic
Performed by Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra); “You’re Nobody til Somebody Loves You” (Russ Morgan
Tome Cousin
Pascale Faye
Nina Goldman
Shannon Hammons
Jack Hayes
Mayumi Miguel
Dana Stackpole
Rocker Verastique
Robert Wersinger
Alan Campbell
Gigi Chavoshi
Charlotte D Amboise
Colleen Dunn
Violetta Klimczewska
Danny Mastrogiorgio
D W Moffett
20 of these 38 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 18 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Susan Stroman
- Choreographer
- Susan Stroman
- Producer
- Lincoln Center Theatre at the Vivian Beaumont
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 1 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
Contact was an immediate hit after its October 7, 1999, off-Broadway debut at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre. B007l4owcu Ebok Peter Filichia, p. 270
At the Lucille Lortel Awards, where Stroman was named Best Director of a Production—play or musical—for Contact, she gave her gratitude to André Bishop.
Speaker not recorded. B007l4owcu Ebok Peter Filichia, p. 271- In some of these shows, such as Contact (2000), plots unfold through dance. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 122
- as opposed to Contact with its prerecorded music, Movin’Out uses live music, led by piano-playing Michael Cavanagh. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 268
- 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) The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 401
- 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 Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 385
- 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.” The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 1 2005 May 31 2006 Viagas Robert Second Annu, p. 334
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Contact at all.
- No director named.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.