CATCH ME IF YOU CAN is based on the book and hit 2002 DreamWorks film of the same name directed by Stephen Spielberg with screenplay by Jeff Nathanson and book by Frank Abagnale, Jr.
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN captures the astonishing true story of Frank Abagnale, Jr., a world-class con artist who passed himself off as a doctor, a lawyer, and a jet pilot-all before the age of 21. With straight-arrow FBI agent Carl Hanratty on Frank's trail, we're off on a jet-setting, cat-and-mouse chase, as a jazzy, swinging-sixties score keeps this adventure in constant motion. In the end, Agent Hanratty learns he and Frank aren't so very different after all, and Frank finds out what happens when love catches up to a man on the run.
'Catch Me If You Can' makes Abagnale a sympathetic figure guilty mainly of charming everybody. Tveit is handsome and sings well, but overuses his Colgate smile and lacks the pizazz necessary to sell the snake oil. This Frank is a junior, all right: many personas but little personality. Butz, on the other hand, has charisma to spare -- which is saying something, since he puts the 'ratty' back in Hanratty. His body hunched at an angle, a greasy-looking hat perched on his head, he creates a fully rounded character, and displays unfailing musical-comedy flair.
There’s so much that works about Catch Me if You Can that it’s easy to overlook what doesn’t. This adaptation of the 2002 Steven Spielberg film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks boasts the sort of old-fashioned aspects so many contemporary musicals lack: solid storytelling, characters you come to care about and a tuneful, memorable score. Only the awkward structure and slow patches of Terrence McNally’s book prevent it from being a total triumph.
2005 | New York |
Reading New York |
2007 | New York |
Reading New York |
2011 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
2012 | US Tour |
National Tour US Tour |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2011 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Norbert Leo Butz |
2011 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Tom Wopat |
2011 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Kerry Butler |
2011 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | Marc Shaiman |
2011 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | Scott Wittman |
2011 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Music | Marc Shaiman |
2011 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Orchestrations | Larry Blank |
2011 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Orchestrations | Marc Shaiman |
2011 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Norbert Leo Butz |
2011 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Aaron Tveit |
2011 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding New Score | 0 |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Stephanie P. McClelland |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | The 5th Avenue Theatre |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Joan Stein/Jon Murray |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Joseph & Matthew Deitch/Cathy Chernoff |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Amuse Inc. |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Loraine Boyle |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Rodney Rigby |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Rainerio J. Reyes |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Barry Feirstein |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Jamie deRoy |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Paula Herold/Kate Lear |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Margo Lion |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Stacey Mindich |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Yasuhiro Kawana |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Scott and Brian Zeilinger |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | The Rialto Group |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | The Araca Group |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Michael Watt |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Barbara & Buddy Freitag |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Jay & Cindy Gutterman/Pittsburgh |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Elizabeth Williams |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Johnny Roscoe Productions/Van Dean |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Fakston Productions/Solshay Productions |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Patty Baker/Richard Winkler |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Nederlander Presentations, Inc. |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Warren Trepp |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Remmel T. Dickinson |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Orchestrations | Larry Blank |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Orchestrations | Marc Shaiman |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Norbert Leo Butz |
2011 | Tony Awards | Best Sound Design of a Musical | Steve Canyon Kennedy |
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