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Article: There's more to `Contact' than the girl in yellow.(Entertainment)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- March 27, 2005
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Byline: The Register-Guard
The girl in the yellow dress is so well known that you might think she's all there is to "Contact." She's the star, but the show also has two other parts in which she is nowhere to be seen.
The first story, "Swinging," was inspired by a Fragonard painting of a girl on a swing, attended by two men. Set in 1767, it's performed to jazz violinist Stephane Grapelli's recording of the Rodgers & Hart classic "My Heart Stood Still."
The second story, "Did You Move?" jumps ahead to the 1950s. The setting is buffet night at an Italian restaurant in Queens, N.Y., where a woman escapes from her abusive husband by daydreaming to ...