Contact

Synopsis

Three short dance pieces. Swinging - A Forest glade, 1767, A Servant, an Aristocrat, a Girl on a Swing. Did You Move? - An Italian restaurant, Queens, 1954; A Wife, a Husband, A Headwaiter. Contact - An Advertising Executive, a Bartender, a Girl in a Yellow Dress. All of the musical accompaniment is recordings of tunes, from classical to pop to swing.

Our Review:

24 October 2002

From the moment the curtain goes up on a playfully erotic divertissement to an electrifying curtain call finale, danced to Van Morrison's "Moondance", two hours later, there's no smarter, sexier or more surprising evening in London than Contact.

This Broadway import won the Tony Award for Best Musical two years ago. Though naysayers are right to doubt its billing as a musical - there's no original score, nothing's sung live and even the music is pre-recorded - it has the kind of sheen and style that owes its progeny to such previous Broadway dance revues as Dancin' and Fosse.

It's no coincidence that both of those previous shows, of course, celebrated the work of the late, great Bob Fosse, one of Broadway's leading director/choreographers, whose mantle as a hit maker - if not quite in the same league as an innovator - Susan Stroman has lately inherited.

Having followed Stro (as everyone in the business calls her) from her 199...

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USER: Whatsonstage.com (81.103.216.78) - 6 May 2003:

Hopefully this will be replaced by a better value for money show....

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