Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
#1Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 5:38am
Can't wait!
Yorkey seems to have fixed the book
....but the world goes 'round
jennafan
Broadway Star Joined: 6/15/06
#2Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 5:54amI hope they make Barefoot Bandit: The Musical
#2Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 7:31amDamn, Mr. Riedel sure had his morning coffee and donut before he wrote that article. I mean he was bordering on sounding like a CMIYC fanboy lol. Still, great to actually get some interesting AND positive news from his article. And, how can you not like Marc Shaiman? That video had me cracking up...and thoroughly entertained. Things are most certainly looking up for this show IMO.
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#3Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 7:36amAnybody else catch the beautifully factchecked bit about Norbert Leo Butz playing Frank Jr.?
#4Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 7:48am
Boy that Reidel is really catty.
The revamping wasn't easy. Yorkey and Shaiman, a couple of hefty guys, bumped bellies a few times, sources say. But success in the theater often turns "Fatty!" into "Darling!" and now everybody involved with "Catch Me" is holding hands and singing songs and going to the gym.
#5Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 8:35am
Norbet as Frank? lol, did he not even see the problem with that as he was typing it?
And yikes, he does not like In The Heights
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#6Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 8:38am
^ Like I said that Reidel is really catty. He makes his living CRITICIZING and standing in judgement of others. In my humble opinion a job I wouldn't want in a million years.
Updated On: 7/14/10 at 08:38 AM
#7Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 8:44am
Good column, though I'm sure Aaron Tveit would be interested to know he's apparently been replaced his co-star. 
Updated On: 7/14/10 at 08:44 AM
#8Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 9:00amMaybe Norbert Leo Butz as Frank, Jr. is not a mistake. I could see him playing that role.
massofmen
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/10/04
#9Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 9:14am
i love this message board.
"cmiyc is looking like a hit"?
have you seen it? how many tix has it sold..how many tony noms has it gotten? whats the advance like..what does the set look like?
from one gossip column its now looking like a "hit"?
come on. let's at least wait till they have their blocking.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#10Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 9:53am
I'm thinking there was a bad edit or a simple errorneous "delete key" hit.
The show, which will star Norbert Leo Butz (insert the right character's name and then Aaron Tviet's nams) as the notorious real-life con man Frank Abagnale Jr., will open on Broadway in the spring. It's being directed by Jack O'Brien and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell.
I also didn't think he was being rude with the fat cat remarks as it's a common phrase to discuss succeess/power etc.
I hope that he's right in his assessment in the show as I'm really looking forward to it and I'm incredibly tired of being disappointed in productions!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#11Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 9:57amGeez, he really must hate In The Heights if he wants it to close that bad!
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#12Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 10:31amI don't think he really hates In The Heights. He probably more or less thinks it has pretty much run its course. It had a nice run (not sure if it recouped or not...guessing it did), won some Tonys but is now resorting to what some may call stunt casting, with the hires of first Corbin Bleu and now, Jordin Sparks.
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#13Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 10:35amI hate IN THE HEIGHTS and want it to close.
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#14Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 11:04am
Riedel, when chirpy, is just plain embarrassing. It's a stupid column. In a different mood (or without payola from the publicist) he would dismiss the score as "Sammy Davis Jr. pastiche," but here he lauds it for being derivative. He gets the casting wrong, and makes up a ridiculous line about investors reaching for checkbooks (a cliché that was out of date 40 years ago). And then the runty closet queen calls Shaiman and Yorkey fat.
That said, I hold hopes, as for all new projects, that the show will be good.
#15Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 11:13amHow do you know he gets payola?
....but the world goes 'round
#16Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 11:24am
Maybe Norbert Leo Butz as Frank, Jr. is not a mistake. I could see him playing that role.
10 years ago, maybe. But now, he's far too old for that role. Besides, Tveit got outstanding, star is born, reviews. He's not being replaced.
Marinacat
Chorus Member Joined: 1/31/08
#17Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 11:39amA forty something playing a teen? That's a tough job no matter how good an actor you are.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#18Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 11:44amI think IN THE HEIGHTS should close - they're getting desperate now.
#19Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 11:56amHaving seen the show, the main problem I had with it was variety show framework, which seemed to drift in and out of existence. That and the inane sing along. Otherwise, it's a solid show.
#20Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 12:03pmSome of you are obnoxious, wishing a show would close because *you* don't care for it. As if the world revolved around *your* likes and dislikes. Get real.
#21Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 12:15pm
All gossip columnists get payola. They certainly can't live on the $15,000 a year a gossip column pays. Not even if they also get the $15 an episode Riedel gets for his public access theatre chat show.
(Note: do not take the above numbers literally; as you may have guessed, hyperbole is being used for entertainment purposes.)
Wildcard
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#22Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 2:29pmIf they focus the story on Frank Jr. and stop forcing making Leo Butz's character equal like in the movie, then this show could definitely work. Unfortunately, a lot of the detective's numbers didn't really move the story along and while crowd pleasers, slowed the pace of the show.
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#23Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/14/10 at 10:57pm
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I don't think he really hates In The Heights. He probably more or less thinks it has pretty much run its course. It had a nice run (not sure if it recouped or not...guessing it did), won some Tonys but is now resorting to what some may call stunt casting, with the hires of first Corbin Bleu and now, Jordin Sparks."
No I really don't think he likes that show. Not just the fact that he referred to it as dopey but also, he, like most critics who still had voting rights, wanted Passing Strange to win the Tony for Best Musical.
Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you.
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ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."
#24Catch Me If You Can is looking like a hit!
Posted: 7/15/10 at 5:14am
They have A LOT to fix.
From seeing it in Seattle almost a year ago-- sweet baby Jesus did it need help.
