Catch Me If You Can | |
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Music | Marc Shaiman |
Lyrics | Marc Shaiman Scott Wittman |
Book | Terrence McNally |
Basis | Catch Me If You Can by Jeff Nathanson Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale Jr. Stan Redding |
Premiere | April 10, 2011Neil Simon Theatre : |
Productions | 2009 Seattle 2011 Broadway 2012 Non-Equity tour |
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.[1] 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.[2]