'Catch Me If You Can' Musical Holds Open Casting-Calls

Telsey + Co. Casting is casting the new musical Catch Me If You Can.  Open calls may be coming to a city near you.

Catch Me If You Can, with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman and a book by Terrence McNally, will be directed by Jack O'Brien and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell.   The 2002 film, about a young con artist's pursuit by an FBI agent, featured a screenplay by Jeff Nathanson, based on the book by Frank Abagnale Jr., and was directed by Steven Speilberg.  Leonardo DiCaprio co-starred with Tom Hanks and Christopher Walken.

Shaiman and Wittman previously collaborated on the Broadway smash Hairspray, also directed by O'Brien and choreographed by Mitchell.

It was earlier rumored that Tony Award-winner Nathan Lane (Butley, The Producers) and Tom Wopat (Chicago, Annie Get Your Gun), who starred in earlier workshops of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman's Broadway-bound musical Catch Me If You Can, may reprise their roles for Broadway.  Lane would portray Hanratty and Wopat would take on the role of Frank Abignale, Sr.  No official casting has been announced.

The show is scheduled to open on Broadway in 2008.

Casting call dates / locations include:

LOS ANGELES, CA
Friday, January 11, 2008
11:00am - 5:00pm
(sign-in begins at 10:30am!)
at Hollywood United Methodist Church
6817 Franklin Ave.
Hollywood, CA 90028
(At the corner of Highland Ave. and Franklin Ave.)

ORLANDO, FL
Thursday, January 17, 2008
10:00am - 6:00pm
(sign-in begins at 9am!)
at Columbus Center Dance Academy
4625 Middlebrook Rd.
Orlando, FL 32811
(off of Kirkman & Conroy)

NEW YORK, NY
Saturday, January 19, 2008
10:00am - 6:00pm
(sign-in begins at 9am!)
at Telsey + Company
311 West 43rd Street
10th Floor
New York, NY 10036
(btwn 8th Avenue & 9th Avenue)

CHICAGO, IL
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
10:00am - 5:00pm
(sign-in begins at 9am!)
at Lou Conte Dance Center
1147 West Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60607
(at the corner of Racine)