Contact

Pros: Choreography, acting, story
Cons: It's too expensive to see twice.

While getting ready to head off to Poland to teach, I've stopped for a week for family-ing in New York. My aunt, knowing how much I love theater, took me to the tourist information booth the other day and we got "two-fers" for the Tony award winning...

Pros: The cast is perfection. The choreography is exceptional.
Cons: The first vignette is a little weak and lacking in substance.

Over the years, I have made it a point to see almost every dance film I come across, regardless of the quality of the acting, the plot or the production. I consider wonderful dancing enough of a redeeming virtue to save an otherwise mundane movie from...

Pros: The last scene
Cons: Overall I had higher expectations

***WARNING***This review explains the plot thoroughly, reader beware.

"Contact" is a 'dance play' played in the Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center, it tells three stories through dance and outbursts of dialog. The play revolves around...

Pros: Karen Ziemba, Boyd Gaines, Deborah Yates
Cons: not electric, left you feeling as if you should have been given more for your money

Susan Stroman is terrific. No doubt about it. Her choreography in past hits (Steel Pier, Oklahoma, Showboat) has left me dazzled and smiling for days. So it was with no surprise that when a friend came to visit me in the city, I recommended seeing...

Pros: Great dancing, not a traditional Broadway musical
Cons: not an original score, not a traditional Broadway musical

I can easily see how Contact won the 2000 Tony Award for Best New Musical. I thoroughly enjoyed this collection of three short plays.

I was curious before hand how they would work three separate plays and one intermission into 2 hours and 15...

Pros: Great Dancing!
Cons: No singing

Contact is a delightful dance play. It is structured around three acts. The first is about a girl on a swing. There is no talking and it is basically just a lot of acrobatics with a swing. Personally, this was my least favorite part of the show, even...

Pros: Several nice swing dance numbers
Cons: Thin on plot, dance talent, and value for the money

Contact, described by its producers as a "Dance Play," consists of three unrelated acts. Everything about it--plots, level of dancing talent, choreography, and orchestra (none)--were consistent with a decent-but-uneven off-Broadway show. If...

Pros: Great soundtrack
Cons: Plot and Dancing

I feel as though I am the only person in New York who thinks this show is trite and perhaps the emperor's new clothes...

I've seen it twice (I hated it the first time, I saw it a second for professional reasons).

The first piece...

Pros: Entertaining, Sets and Costumes, Music
Cons: Expensive

I am not one to sit through Broadway plays because as beautiful and a work of art that each may be, I am a restless person who gets bored easily by many "traditional" musicals. But, Contact is one of the first plays I easily sat through. I really...