Catch Me If You Can (stage musical)
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Catch Me If You Can is a Broadway musical adaptation of the 2002 film about con artist Frank Abagnale Jr., featuring a jazzy, 1960s-inspired score and a show-within-a-show format.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Catch Me If You Can (musical) | 2 |
| Catch Me If You Can (stage musical) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8869717 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Catch Me If You Can (stage musical) Context triple: [Scott Wittman, coCreated, Catch Me If You Can (stage musical)]
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The Last Five Years
The Last Five Years is a contemporary two-person musical by Jason Robert Brown that chronicles a couple’s five-year relationship through intersecting, reverse-chronological and forward-chronological narratives.
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B.
Side Show (Broadway musical)
Side Show is a Broadway musical that dramatizes the lives of conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton as they navigate fame, love, and exploitation in the world of 1930s sideshows and vaudeville.
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C.
High Fidelity (Broadway musical)
High Fidelity is a Broadway musical adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel about a record store owner who revisits his past relationships to understand his failures in love.
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D.
On Broadway
"On Broadway" is a jazz-infused cover of the classic song popularized by George Benson, known for its virtuosic guitar work and smooth vocal style.
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E.
If/Then (musical)
If/Then is a contemporary Broadway musical with music by Tom Kitt and book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey that follows a woman whose life diverges into parallel storylines based on a single choice.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Catch Me If You Can (stage musical) Target entity description: Catch Me If You Can is a Broadway musical adaptation of the 2002 film about con artist Frank Abagnale Jr., featuring a jazzy, 1960s-inspired score and a show-within-a-show format.
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A.
The Last Five Years
The Last Five Years is a contemporary two-person musical by Jason Robert Brown that chronicles a couple’s five-year relationship through intersecting, reverse-chronological and forward-chronological narratives.
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B.
Side Show (Broadway musical)
Side Show is a Broadway musical that dramatizes the lives of conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton as they navigate fame, love, and exploitation in the world of 1930s sideshows and vaudeville.
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C.
High Fidelity (Broadway musical)
High Fidelity is a Broadway musical adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel about a record store owner who revisits his past relationships to understand his failures in love.
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D.
On Broadway
"On Broadway" is a jazz-infused cover of the classic song popularized by George Benson, known for its virtuosic guitar work and smooth vocal style.
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E.
If/Then (musical)
If/Then is a contemporary Broadway musical with music by Tom Kitt and book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey that follows a woman whose life diverges into parallel storylines based on a single choice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway musical
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stage musical ⓘ |
| award | Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardRecipient | Norbert Leo Butz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Catch Me If You Can (2002 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
life of Frank Abagnale Jr. ⓘ |
| bookBy | Terrence McNally NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadwayClosingDate | 2011-09-04 ⓘ |
| broadwayOpeningDate | 2011-04-10 ⓘ |
| broadwayPreviewStartDate | 2011-03-11 ⓘ |
| broadwayTheatre | Neil Simon Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| choreographer | Jerry Mitchell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| costumeDesigner | William Ivey Long NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| director | Jack O'Brien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresStyle |
1960s-inspired music
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jazzy score ⓘ |
| genre | musical theatre ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lightingDesigner | Kenneth Posner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lyricsBy |
Marc Shaiman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scott Wittman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Marc Shaiman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | show-within-a-show format ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Don’t Break the Rules
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fly, Fly Away NERFINISHED ⓘ Goodbye ⓘ Jet Set NERFINISHED ⓘ Live in Living Color NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfBroadwayPerformances | 170 ⓘ |
| orchestrationsBy |
Larry Blank
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marc Shaiman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalBroadwayCastMember |
Aaron Tveit
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kerry Butler NERFINISHED ⓘ Norbert Leo Butz NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Wopat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 2009-07-28 ⓘ |
| premiereLocation | 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
DreamWorks Theatricals
NERFINISHED
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Hal Luftig NERFINISHED ⓘ Margo Lion NERFINISHED ⓘ Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ Universal Pictures Stage Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleDepicted |
Brenda Strong
NERFINISHED
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Carl Hanratty NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Abagnale Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Paula Abagnale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setDesigner | David Rockwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| soundDesigner | Steve Kennedy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject | con artist Frank Abagnale Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tonyNominations | 4 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Catch Me If You Can (stage musical) Description of subject: Catch Me If You Can is a Broadway musical adaptation of the 2002 film about con artist Frank Abagnale Jr., featuring a jazzy, 1960s-inspired score and a show-within-a-show format.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Catch Me If You Can (musical)
this entity surface form:
Catch Me If You Can (musical)