CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, which played its final performance on Broadway in September, will launch a non-equity national tour in the Fall of 2012, presented by Troika Entertainment.
A full schedule has yet to be announced.
The opening night of CATCH ME IF YOU CAN was April 10, 2011 following previews that began on Friday, March 11, 2011. The production was nominated for four Tony Awards with Norbert Leo Butz taking home the award for Best Actor in a Musical. The production was nominated for three Drama League Awards, six Astaire Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, six Drama Desk Awards and seven Broadway.com Audience Awards. In addition to the Tony Award, Butz won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical and the Astaire Award for Best Male Dancer.
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.
On Friday, March 2, 2012, producer Ken Davenport (Godspell, Chinglish, Oleanna, You're Welcome America...) will present a private industry reading of the new musical 'GARAGE BAND' at a private location in midtown Manhattan. 'GARAGE BAND' features music by Mark Allen and book by The Grundleshotz.
Producers Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig announced today that Kinky Boots, the new musical that brings together four-time Tony® Award-winner Harvey Fierstein (Book) and Grammy® Award-winning rock icon Cyndi Lauper (Music & Lyrics), will have its pre-Broadway world premiere in Chicago this fall. Directed and choreographed by Tony® Award-winner Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots will play the Bank of America Theatre in October 2012.
StudentsLive, the Premier Broadway Education Company, has annouced its first-ever multilingual international and domestic "Passport to Broadway" Program for students from July 23, 2012 to August 3, 2012 at Pearl Studios and Manhattan Movement and Arts Center (MMAC). The musical theatre intensive final performance takes place over 10 days from approximately 8:30am to 6:00pm, Monday through Friday, at Pearl Studios led by Broadway Musical Directors, Choreographers and Interactive Intensives with Broadway Performers and Guest Artists.
Second Stage Theatre's opened Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE, directed by Kate Whoriskey and starring Norbert Leo Butz and Elizabeth Reaser, last night, February 13.
The Town Hall (123 West 43 Street) has signed Award-winning Jazz singer Marilyn Maye, Tony Award winner, Ben Davis (Baz Luhrmann's La Boheme), Dameka Hayes, Audelco Award Nominee for It Ain't Nothing But The Blues and Jessie Mueller, who made her Broadway debut in On a Clear Day…, to perform in THE BROADWAY MUSICALS OF 1946 on Monday, February 13, 2012 at 8pm.
The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts announced today its 2012-2013 Broadway Series.
The Gexa Energy Broadway at the Hobby Center 2012-2013 season, announced today, contains both new hits and familiar Broadway favorites. The five-show season package includes the most beautiful love story ever told, Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the spectacular new 25th anniversary production of LES MISÉRABLES, the high-flying new musical CATCH ME IF YOU CAN and the feel-good musical with heart and soul, SISTER ACT.
Casting has been announced for the Dayton engagement of JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, playing the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center, January 17 through February 5, 2012 as part of the 2011-2012 Miami Valley & Good Samaritan Hospitals Broadway Series.
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, which played its final performance on Broadway in September, will soon open in South Korea, in addition to launching a non-equity national tour in the Fall of 2012. Check out a brand new promo for the South Korean production below!
The Town Hall (123 West 43 Street) has signed Award-winning Jazz singer Marilyn Maye, Tony Award winner, Ben Davis (Baz Luhrmann's La Boheme), Dameka Hayes, Audelco Award Nominee for It Ain't Nothing But The Blues and Jessie Mueller, who made her Broadway debut in On a Clear Day…, to perform in THE BROADWAY MUSICALS OF 1946 on Monday, February 13, 2012 at 8pm.
MCC THEATER has just announced another all-star line-up for the company's highly anticipated annual gala, to be held Monday, March 26, 2012 at The Hammerstein Ballroom (311 West 34th Street). Miscast 2012 will honor the creators of Carrie, Academy Award-winning composer Michael Gore (Fame, Terms of Endearment), Academy Award-winning lyricist Dean Pitchford (Fame, Footloose) and Writer Lawrence D. Cohen (screenwriter of the classic film, Carrie) for their bold, daring, risk-taking spirit. Funds raised from Miscast help MCC Theater produce some of the most talked-about new work Off Broadway and support their Youth Company and in-school partnerships that serve New York City public high school students, as well as their literary development work with emerging playwrights.
BAD GIRL ISLAND is a supernatural thriller about murder, temptation and mystical forces on an exotic island in the Bermuda triangle starring veteran actor James Brolin (Catch Me If You Can, Amityville Horror), Antonio Sabato Jr. (The Big Hit, "General Hospital") and AnnaLynne McCord ("90210", The Haunting of Molly Hartley).
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, which played its final performance on Broadway in September will launch a non-equity national tour in the Fall of 2012, presented by Troika Entertainment. A full schedule has yet to be announced.
While announced in multiple spots online last month, the ink is now dry on his contract and Broadway star Aaron Tveit is now officially Enjolras in the upcoming film of LES MISERABLES.
Tony and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Linda Lavin will celebrate the release of her debut album "Possibilities" on Ghostlight Records with a performance and CD signing at Barnes & Noble on 86th St & Lexington Avenue in NYC on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 6pm. She will be supported by a trio of musicians, including Billy Stritch on piano, Steve Doyle on bass & Steve Bakunas on drums.
Dallas Theater Center previously announced the cast and design team of Giant, a co-production with The Public Theater, which runs at the Wyly Theatre Jan. 18 - Feb. 19, 2012.
Tickets go on sale today for the hotly anticipated Broadway Bares, returning for its 22nd edition on Sunday, June 17, 2012, at New York City's Roseland Ballroom to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Casting has been announced for the Dayton engagement of JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, playing the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center, January 17 through February 5, 2012 as part of the 2011-2012 Miami Valley & Good Samaritan Hospitals Broadway Series.
Tony-winner, Broadway star and BroadwayWorld.com fave Norbert Leo Butz is on set today filming a guest starring role in the upcoming NBC series - SMASH. Butz will play the lead character in HEAVEN ON EARTH, the 'currently running show within a show' written by the characters played by Debra Messing and Christian Borle. He will perform an original tune, entitled 'The Higher You Get, the Farther You Fall' written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.
The Town Hall has just announced the 12th Season of their acclaimed BROADWAY BY THE YEAR® concert series which kicks off with THE BROADWAY MUSICALS OF 1946 on Monday, February 13, 2012. The show is created, written and hosted by Scott Siegel for The Town Hall. Initial casting includes Alice Ripley, the Tony® Award winning star of Next to Normal, Tom Wopat (Tony® Award nominated for his role of Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun revival/Catch Me if You Can), Kerry O'Malley (On a Clear Day…Annie Get Your Gun revival) and Noah Racey (Curtains), who will also choreograph. The evening will feature songs and dance from Irving Berlin's classic Annie Get Your Gun and other musicals including Call Me Mister, St. Louis Woman and Park Avenue. Ross Patterson is the musical director.
Producers Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel and INFINITY Stages announced today that Tony Award nominee KERRY BUTLER (Xanadu) has joined the cast of the 2012 Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's THE BEST MAN in the role of Mabel Cantwell, a role that Edie Adams played in the film adaptation and later by Christine Ebersole in the 2000 Broadway revival. The addition of Butler marks the completion of principal casting for this star-studded theatrical event.
Hugh Jackman will return to Broadway during the 2013/2014 season starring as America's greatest showman in HOUDINI, an original musical. Making his Broadway debut as librettist, Academy Award and six-time Emmy Award winner Aaron Sorkin will collaborate with three-time Academy Award and four-time Grammy Award winner Stephen Schwartz. Directed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O'Brien, HOUDINI is presented by film and theatre producer Scott Sanders and David Rockwell. Mr. Rockwell will also design the sets for HOUDINI. Additional HOUDINI casting, creative team and design team to be announced at a later date.
Tony and Golden Globe Award-winning actress Linda Lavin will celebrate the release of her debut album "Possibilities" on Ghostlight Records with a performance and CD signing at Barnes & Noble on 86th St & Lexington Avenue in NYC on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 6pm. She will be supported by a trio of musicians, including Billy Stritch on piano, Steve Doyle on bass & Steve Bakunas on drums.
Casting has been announced for the Dayton engagement of JERSEY BOYS, the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, playing the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center, January 17 through February 5, 2012 as part of the 2011-2012 Miami Valley & Good Samaritan Hospitals Broadway Series.
South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) announces its theatre line-up for spring 2012. The line-up includes a Cabaret from Tony nominee Tom Wopat as well as an onstage reunion of RENT original cast members Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp.
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