Tony-Nominated 'Catch Me If You Can' to Launch National Tour in Providence

Tony-Nominated 'Catch Me If You Can' to Launch National Tour in Providence

It's a theatrical coup for Providence and PPAC.

The producers of Catch Me If You Can announced yesterday that the 2011 Tony Award-nominated Best Musical will launch its first national tour in the fall of 2012 at the Providence Performing Arts Center.

Hot-ticket musical

Catch Me captures the 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

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Frank's trail, it's a jet-setting, cat-and-mouse chase with a jazzy, swinging-sixties score. 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.

From the hit 2002 film

The musical is based on the book and hit 2002 DreamWorks film of the same name directed by Steven Spielberg with screenplay by Jeff Nathanson and book by Frank Abagnale, Jr., and starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

The musical features an all-star creative team, with a book by Terrence McNally (The Full Monty, Ragtime), plus score by Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman (Hairspray), choreography by Jerry Mitchell (Hairspray, Legally Blonde) and direction by Jack O’Brien (Hairspray, The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels).

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.