What's a delicious recipe for a Broadway treat? Take a stylish, successful detective film (based on a true story!) and add a score by Marc Shaiman ("Hairspray"; Billy Crystal's medleys for The Academy Awards). Then serve it up with a well-loved TV icon & theater veteran (Tom Wopat of The Dukes Of Hazzard; All My Children; Cybill). How could you not have a theatrical delight?
On paper, "Catch Me If You Can" seems to have it all, and for this it has been met with great expectations—eager anticipation that has been heightened by the fact that the production has been in development for almost a decade. Is the finished product greater than the sum of its parts? Maybe not. But it is, for the most part, just about as rewarding as an informed Broadway audience would expect.
The show's music is certainly not as instantly infectious as "Hairspray"--but...
On paper, "Catch Me If You Can" seems to have it all, and for this it has been met with great expectations—eager anticipation that has been heightened by the fact that the production has been in development for almost a decade. Is the finished product greater than the sum of its parts? Maybe not. But it is, for the most part, just about as rewarding as an informed Broadway audience would expect.
The show's music is certainly not as instantly infectious as "Hairspray"--but...
- 4/13/2011
- by Kevin Mulcahy Jr.
- We Love Soaps
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