The run closed September 4, 2011
- Opened
- April 10, 2011
- Closed
- September 4, 2011
- Performances
- 170
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Neil Simon Theatre
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 118th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Catch Me If You Can 1 more that season
| 1965 | Morosco Theatre Original · Vincent J. Donehue | 103 perf. |
Who was in it26 named
Joe Cassidy
Rachel Debenedet
Timothy Mccuen Piggee
Brandon Wardell
Alex Ellis
Jennifer Frankel
Lisa Gajda
Bob Gaynor
Kearran Giovanni
Grasan Kingsberry
Aleks Pevec
Rachelle Rak
Joe Aaron Reid
Sabrina Sloan
Sarrah Strimel
Charlie Sutton
Candice Marie Woods
9 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 17 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters8 roles recorded
Stephen Anthony Frank Abagnale Jr.
Merritt David Janes Carl Hanratty
Dominic Fortuna Frank Abagnale Sr.
Caitlin Maloney Paula Abagnale
Aubrey Mae Davis Brenda Strong
Amy Burgmaier Carol Strong
D. Scott Withers Roger Strong
Ben Laxton FBI Agent Johnny Dollar
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Jack O'Brien
- Choreographer
- Jerry Mitchell
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
Catch Me If You Can is a musical drama with a libretto by Terrence McNally and a theatrical score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. It follows the story of a con artist named Frank Abagnale. A majority of the plot is borrowed from the 2002 film of the same name, which in turn was based on the 1980 autobiography of the same name by Abagnale and Stan Redding. After a tryout musical performance in Seattle in 2009, Catch Me If You Can opened at Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre in April 2011. The production received four Tony Awards nominations, including one for Best Musical, winning Best Actor in a Musical for Norbert Leo Butz.
On hand to take a bow were Joe Masteroff (libretto) and Sheldon Harnick (lyrics). Photo by . Composer Jerry Bock passed away in 2010. (L-R): Victor Garber, Josh Radnor, Joe Masteroff, Sheldon Harnick, Kelli O'Hara and cast The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2011 To May 2012 Viagas Robert 8th Annual Ed, p. 420
- Norbert Leo Butz jumps for joy after winning the Tony Award for Best Peformance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical, for Catch Me If You Can. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2010 To May 2011 Edited By Robert Viagas 7th, p. 12
- Catch Me If You Can 1 Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre Music & Lyrics: David Yazbek Best Orchestrations Marc Shaiman and Larry Blank, Catch Me If You Can The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2010 To May 2011 Viagas Robert 7th Annual Ed, p. 422
- Catch Me If You Can was promising, coming from the creative team of Hairspray, except for book writer Terrence McNally. A History of the American Musical Theatre No Business Like Nathaniel Hurwitz Tay, p. 298
- 2010–2011: “Butter Outta Cream” (Catch Me If You Can). The musical, which started in the era of the Rat Pack (meaning Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., et al.), gave us one rat (Frank Abagnale, Sr.) and one rat-to-be (Frank Abagnale, Jr.) warbling in the swingin’ style of these singers whom they (understand… The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 206
- Shaiman and Wittman had subsequent successes with Catch Me If You Can (2009) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2017), but Hairspray remains their most perfect creation. The Musical A Concise History Second Edition Ga Nzl Kurt Findlay Jamie 2 2022010, p. 464
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Catch Me If You Can at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.