Catch Me If You Can...perhaps literally...on Broadway, by Nancy Salz

Norbert Leo Butz as Agent Carl Hanratty in Catch Me If You Can. Photo Joan Marcus

Catch Me If You Can
Book by Terrence McNally
Music by Marc Shaiman
Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman
Choreography by Jerry Mitchell
Directed by Jack O’Brien

With Norbert Leo Butz, Aaron Tveit, Kerry Butler, Tom Wopat, Rachel de Benedet, Linda Hart, Nick Wyman


Frank Abagnale Jr. could be the busiest felon of our times. In 1980, he published a memoir. Stephen Spielberg made a movie based on the book called Catch Me If You Can in 2002. Next season he’s been booked for the first-ever Speakers Series at Boston’s Symphony Hall. And a few days ago on April 10, 2011, a musical version of Catch Me If You Can opened on Broadway. Oh Frank, you should have skipped the Broadway gig.

Read the full review on the Berkshire Review, an international journal for the Arts!

Michael Miller