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Contact : The Musical 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 was first presented at the Mitzi E Newhouse Theatre in Sep 1999 ( after 1999 workshop productions of parts of the show ), then moved to the Vivian Beaumont Theatre ( both are a part of Lincoln Center ), a Broadway house, on March thirty, 2k and played for 1,010 performances. The show was received with much vital commend and won the 2000 Tony Award for Best Musical ( among others - see later ). However, it caused much rumpus in the Yank theater world about what constitutes a musical, as rather than original music, it uses pre-recorded music and songs, the actors don't sing, and there's minimal dialogue. As a consequence of the discussion, a new class was made for the Tony Awards : Best Special Dramatic Event.

The first cast album was released on March six, 2001.

The idea of a cast album for a show with no original score was in itself controversial.

PBS included the show's last performance in its program "Live From Lincoln Center" on Sep one, 2002. A West End production opened at the Queen's Theatre in October 2002, and closed on May ten, 2003. "Contact" was at first developed, investigated, and written up by Mike Ockrent's ( Stroman's partner ) development executive and assistants during his temporary production deal at Warner Brothers . It was to be a musical film based mostly on the swing revival now under way in the Big Apple. Considered the concept, with the idea from Ockrent's workers for a film musical of "Therese Racquin", which was also later given to Stroman as "Thou Shalt Not." After Ocrkent's film deal melted, the ideas were then made use of by Stroman. Contact is made of 3 separate dance pieces, each set to pre-recorded music from the likes of Tchaikovsky, Stephane Grappelli, the Squirrel Nut Zippers, Royal Crown Revue, and The Beach Boys:. Part 1, set in an 18th century French forest clearing, can be called a Contact improvisation on Fragonard's The Swing, a print being displayed on an easel when the crowd arrives.

Sex and concealed identity are concerned in this piece of depraved intrigue - a servant and his master each looks for the young woman's love. Lots of the action occurs on a moving swing. Part 2 , set in 1950s Big Apple, occurs in an Italian eaterie, targeting the empty wedding of a small-time mafiosa and his better half. The wife has intensive dance sequences as she fantasizes about escaping her verbally aggressive partner, set to recorded classical music of Tchaikovsky and Grieg.

Part 3 , a up to date piece, explores the emptiness of the career-driven lives of Manhattan flat dwellers and stops them from making contact with others. It helped make a surge of interest in acrobatic and rock and roll swing dancing.

In each story, the central personality expresses a longing to make a romantic connection.

As well as winning Best Musical and Best Choreography, Contact's leading actors, Karen Ziemba ( in Part 2 ) and Boyd Gaines ( in Part 3 ), won Tonys for Best Featured Actress and Best Featured Actor in a Musical . The show also won Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding New Musical, Excellent Featured Actress in a Musical, Excellent Choreography and Superb Lighting Design. Deborah Yates, who originated the impressive dance role of Girl in a Yellow Dress ( Part Three ), was also designated for a Tony Award that year in the same class as Karen Ziemba.