"Catch Me If You Can" was a Broadway musical in 2011. It was performed 32 times in previews and another 170 times shutting down just shy of six months on September 4th of that year. It would be impossible for me say which musical number or actor had the best performance. If I had to pick one surely it would have to be Norbert Leo Butz's exhaustingly over the top sing and dance number from his 2011 Tony Awards performance. I didn't think anyone had this kind of stamina to dance and still be able to sing.
As long as I'm on this Broadway kick... the most exciting show we've seen was "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" back in 2005. It was one of absolute best shows for kids and grown up kids like myself. Unlike most performances this cast encouraged the audience to get loud and involved.
It would be tough for me to imagine how they made money on this show. The complex huge props had to be extremely expensive. The car itself was estimated to be the most expensive stage prop ever used. It was rumored to have cost over one million dollars. Perhaps they recovered some of the cost after the show closed because someone bought the car and the rights to use it here in the United States it in 2014.
I'm really hoping after the granddaughters age in a few years it will come back to Broadway. In the meantime here is a clip I found of the finale performed at the London Palladium theatre where the car flies over the audience. When we first saw this both of us were stunned. I don't know whether any stage prop this big or heavy had ever done this before or since.
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