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Catch Me If You Can

Catch Me If You Can

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Teenage con artist Frank Abagnale Jr., desperate to reunite his divorced parents, runs away from home and assumes a series of dazzling false identities — airline pilot, doctor, lawyer — while forging millions in checks. FBI agent Carl Hanratty doggedly pursues Frank across the country, and as the chase intensifies, an unlikely mutual respect develops between the brilliant fugitive and the relentless lawman.

Opened
2011
Performances
170
Type
Musical
Era
Modern
Music: Marc ShaimanLyrics: Marc Shaiman & Scott WittmanBook: Terrence McNally

Productions2 on Broadway

1965 Morosco Theatre Original. March 9, 1965 · Vincent J. Donehue · predates this show 103 performances
2011 Neil Simon Theatre Revival. April 10, 2011 · Jack O'Brien 170 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 1 entry

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In the literature5 passages

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. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2010-to-may-2011-edited-by-robert-viagas-7th#p12

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 book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2010-to-may-2011-viagas-robert-7th-annual-ed#p422

Catch Me If You Can was promising, coming from the creative team of Hairspray, except for book writer Terrence McNally. book:a-history-of-the-american-musical-theatre-no-business-like-nathaniel-hurwitz-tay#p298

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… book:the-book-of-broadway-musical-debates-disputes-and-peter-filichia-rowman-littlefi#p206

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. book:the-musical-a-concise-history-second-edition-ga-nzl-kurt-findlay-jamie-2-2022010#p464

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