Broadway Hit Closes In London’s West End

Is it because the war kept tourists away from London’s West End? That’s one theory why “Contact” – expected to run for a year or more – is closing after only six months. “Contact came to the West End with an apparently gilt-edged pedigree. It was devised by choreographer Susan Stroman, and John Weldman, and was a smash hit on Broadway, where it won a string of awards, including a Tony.”