A thread about CONTACT
A thread about CONTACT
#1A thread about CONTACT
Posted: 1/12/09 at 5:04pmI saw the production at NSMT and no lie I haven't been the same since. Anyone see it? Or the Broadway Production?
I'll have them clawing at eachother, like drag queens at a wig sale"
#2re: A thread about CONTACT
Posted: 1/12/09 at 5:40pmI saw the broadcast on PBS and the national tour. I loved every moment of it. While it's certainly not a "musical", it was brilliant and stunning. I don't think Stroman ever surpassed her work on Crazy for You and Contact.
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blaxx
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#2re: A thread about CONTACT
Posted: 1/12/09 at 6:34pmI saw it on Broadway - I thought it was pretty entertaining. Perhaps you can tell us what you felt was so affecting.
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#3re: A thread about CONTACT
Posted: 1/12/09 at 6:45pmI saw it on PBS. It's a great PLAY ... with songs. I wish it were staged more often, but I guess it might be difficult for a lot of regional theatres.
#4re: A thread about CONTACT
Posted: 1/12/09 at 7:00pmI wouldn't even call it a play. It was three short ballets. If anything, it should be staged by more ballet companies.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#5re: A thread about CONTACT
Posted: 1/13/09 at 12:50pmI saw the Broadway version 3 times and loved it. It remains one of my all time favorites.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#6re: A thread about CONTACT
Posted: 1/13/09 at 1:00pm
The PBS version I have has the language bleeped in the DID YOU MOVE? section. (I had heard that two versions were offered to stations, one censored and one not.)
The tour that came here had the late Daniel McDonald who was terrific.
It still should not have been nominated as a “musical” but honestly there was nothing else that season (1999-2000) worthy of the award.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
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Posted: 1/14/09 at 1:52am
Language in "did you move?"? NSMT must have changed it because the worst word in that scene was "Fricken."
Personally, I felt deeply for the wife.
I'll have them clawing at eachother, like drag queens at a wig sale"
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#8re: A thread about CONTACT
Posted: 1/14/09 at 8:32am
"fricken"?
Wow. Sort of cuts the balls right off of it.
" Don't smile at the waiter, don't look at the busboy - don't frickin move"
He loses all his menace with that euphemism.
Updated On: 1/14/09 at 08:32 AM
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#9re: A thread about CONTACT
Posted: 1/14/09 at 12:27pm
The reason regional theatre don't do it is that the show doesn't exist without the Stroman choreography. It's not as if some local choreographer can do their own version of CONTACT. It's kind of like saying, "Why don't regional theatres do FOSSE?"
The only way the show can be done is to have someone associated with the original production come in and re-create Stroman's choreography. Of course, the staging had to be adjusted for NSMT, since they are in-the-round, but it was all Stroman's steps.
#10re: A thread about CONTACT
Posted: 1/14/09 at 1:32pmI thought it was brilliant. The Girl in the Yellow Dress, SIMPLY IRRESISTABLE, the whole concept.
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