Contact (musical)
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Contact: The Musical is a musical that was developed by Susan Stroman and John Weidman. It first presented at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre in September of 1999 then it moved to Broadway on March 30, 2000 at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre and the Lincoln Center Theater. It was received with much critical acclaim and won the 2000 Tony Award for Best Musical. However, it caused much controversy in the American theater world about what constitutes a musical as it does not contain original music.
Contact is made up of three parts, 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 One - "Swinging"
- Part Two - Did You Move?
- Part Three - "Contact"
In addition to winning Best Musical, Contact's leading actors, Karen Ziemba and Boyd Gaines, won Tonys for Best Actress and Best Actor respectively. PBS included the show's final performance in its program "Live From Lincoln Center" on September 1, 2002.
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