CATCH ME IF YOU CAN stars Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz as Carl Hanratty, Aaron Tveit as Frank Abagnale, Jr., Tony Nominee Tom Wopat as Frank Abagnale, Sr. and Tony Nominee Kerry Butler as Brenda Strong. This new musical, created by a team of Tony winners, features a book by Terrence McNally, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, choreography by Jerry Mitchell and is directed by Jack O'Brien. Click below for a behind the scenes look at the making of the show's television commercial.
Jesse Berger, Artistic Director and the Board of Directors of Red Bull Theater are please to invite you to the third annual RUNNING OF THE RED BULLS BENEFIT honoring Richard Easton, Katherine Hoold and Lily Rabe, with THE MATADOR AWARDS for excellence in classical theater.
DanceOn, a YouTube partnership channel exclusive to dance, released the sixth episode of DIARY OF A CHORUS GIRL today. The cast of CATCH ME IF YOU CAN is rehearsing during the day and performing at night in preparation for their April 10th opening! Alex sits down with Tony Award-winning director Jack O'Brien to chat about what it means to 'be' on Broadway.
Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced that The Old Globe will produce the World Premieres of four new plays and musicals in its 2011-12 Winter Season. The season will feature the World Premiere musicals Some Lovers by music legend Burt Bacharach and Tony Award winner Steven Sater and Nobody Loves You by Gaby Alter and Itamar Moses, as well as the West Coast Premiere of John Kander and Fred Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys, recently nominated for 12 Tony Awards including Best Musical, directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman. The two plays receiving World Premiere productions are Somewhere by Globe Playwright-in-Residence Matthew Lopez and The Recommendation by Jonathan Caren. The new season also includes revivals of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show and the Eugene O'Neill classic Anna Christie directed by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner David Auburn. Special events include the World Premiere of Odyssey by Todd Almond, a music theater event conceived and directed by Lear deBessonet celebrating the Globe's 75th Anniversary, The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program production of Twelfth Night and Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, which returns for its 14th consecutive year.
Nominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing's 65th Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards were announced May 3, 2011 by Tony Award winning actor Matthew Broderick and Tony Award winning actress Anika Noni Rose, at the Tony Award Nominations Announcement sponsored by IBM.
This past week, Matthew Morrison once again resided in a Broadway theatre - visiting Aaron Tveit, Tom Wopat, Norbert Leo Butz, his HAIRSPRAY costar Kerry Butler, and the rest of the cast of CATCH ME IF YOU CAN; view his backstage thoughts below!
Last night, Thursday 4/28, Norbert Leo Butz and the cast of CATCH ME IF YOU CAN performed 'Don't Break the Rules' on 'The Late Show with David Letterman.' Click below to check out the performance!
DanceOn, a YouTube partnership channel exclusive to dance, released the seventh episode of DIARY OF A CHORUS GIRL today. The cast and crew of CATCH ME IF YOU CAN prepare for the start of previews, and Alex Ellis has her first performance on a Broadway stage! Click below to watch the episode!
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN began preview performances on Friday, March 11, 2011 at Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre and opened on Sunday, April 10, 2011. Click below for a sneak peek of 'Jet Set' from the show!
The 'Sas' is back. Rachelle Rak (better known to the Broadway community as 'Sas'), has had a career as a Broadway dancer to be envied. Having worked on Broadway for ten straight years in the original companies of Cats, Fosse, Starlight Express, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (among others) and the revival company of monster hits such as Oklahoma!, it seemed Rak had not only 'made it,' but found a home as the consumate chrous girl. Until 2006.
Theater Talk, the series devoted to the world of the stage, is co-hosted by Michael Riedel, Broadway columnist for the New York Post and series producer Susan Haskins. This week on the show:
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN stars Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz as Carl Hanratty, Aaron Tveit as Frank Abagnale, Jr., Tony Nominee Tom Wopat as Frank Abagnale, Sr. and Tony Nominee Kerry Butler as Brenda Strong. This new musical, created by a team of Tony winners, features a book by Terrence McNally, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, choreography by Jerry Mitchell and is directed by Jack O'Brien. In the video below, watch Marc Shaiman and Scott Whittman sing 'Butter Out of CReam' on Theatre Talk
DanceOn, a YouTube partnership channel exclusive to dance, released the sixth episode of DIARY OF A CHORUS GIRL today. The cast and crew of CATCH ME IF YOU CAN move into the Neil Simon Theater, and Alex Ellis takes her first step on a Broadway stage!
Theater Talk, the series devoted to the world of the stage, is co-hosted by Michael Riedel, Broadway columnist for the New York Post and series producer Susan Haskins. This week on the show:
The Broadway production of CATCH ME IF YOU CAN officially opened on April 10, 2011. BroadwayWorld.com was there for the famed Gypsy Robe ceremony and brings you photo coverage below!
On Thursday, April 14, audience members at the new Broadway musical CATCH ME IF YOU CAN will get the chance to hear first-hand from the real Frank W. Abagnale Jr. (played on stage by Aaron Tveit), whose teenage escapades are the basis for the musical and the 2002 film of the same name.
In the following video, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN's Kerry Butler shares two truthsand a lie about herself. Catch her in a lie here to be automatically entered to win this week's prize: a fantastic Airmail Zipper Pouch from Blue Q!
DanceOn, a YouTube partnership channel exclusive to dance, released the fifth episode of DIARY OF A CHORUS GIRL today. It's the last week in the rehearsal studio before the cast and crew of CATCH ME IF YOU CAN move into the Neil Simon Theater!
