Dallas legend Patrick Duffy (The Man from Atlantis; Step by Step) and Linda Purl (Happy Days; Homeland) fly in from Hollywood to star alongside Gray O’ Brien (Peak Practice; Coronation Street), leading the cast in this exciting new production of the classic Broadway thriller Catch Me If You Can.
Catch Me If You Can, written by Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert, and directed by Bob Tomson, will embark on its nationwide tour, opening at the Theatre Royal, Windsor on 8 February 2022. Adapted from Robert Thomas’s French play Trap for a Lonely Man, this highly entertaining mystery has inspired three successful screenplays.
Inspector Levine is called to a house in the remote Catskill mountains to investigate the disappearance of newly married Elizabeth Corban. But when Elizabeth suddenly turns up, her husband seems surprised – and this is only the beginning of a truly baffling train of events, in which nothing is what it seems and no-one is as they appear. Will this extraordinary sequence of surprising twists and turns lead to a murderous conclusion?
Patrick Duffy is known to audiences around the world for his twelve years in the role of Bobby Ewing in the CBS primetime drama Dallas. Other notable roles include Mark Harris in NBC’s Man from Atlantis, Frank Lambert in the ABC sitcom Step by Step and Stephen Logan in CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful. On stage, he played Serge in the award-winning West End production of Art.
Linda Purl’s numerous screen roles include Ashley (Fonzie’s girlfriend) in Happy Days, Helene in the American version of The Office, Charlene Matlock in the legal drama series Matlock, and Elizabeth Gaines in Homeland. Her stage appearances include the international tour of Seven Deadly Sins Four Deadly Sinners, Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (Rubicon Theatre, California) and, most recently, Rosemary Clooney in Tenderly at the New Vic, Santa Barbara.
Gray O’Brien is best known for his portrayal of villainous Weatherfield businessman Tony Gordon in Coronation Street, as Dr Tom Deneley in Peak Practice and as Dr. Richard McCraig in Casualty. He played Milo Tindle in Sleuth at the West End’s Apollo Theatre.
The cast also includes Ben Nealon, who played Captain Jeremy Forsythe in ITV’s award-winning series Soldier Soldier. He has appeared regularly on stage with the Agatha Christie Theatre Company and the Classic Thriller Theatre Company.
Theatre Royal Windsor
08 February – 19 February 2022
Belfast Grand Opera House
21 February- 26 February 2022
New Theatre Cardiff
28 February- 05 March 2022
Blackpool Grand
07 March- 12 March 2022
Darlington Hippodrome
14 March- 19 March 2022
Malvern Festival Theatre
21 March- 26 March 2022
Theatr Clwyd
28 March- 02 April 2022
Milton Keynes Theatre
04 April- 09 April 2022
Richmond Theatre
11 April- 16 April 2022
Alexandra Theatre Birmingham
25 April- 30 April 2022
Eastbourne Devonshire Park
09 May- 14 May 2022
Theatre Royal Bath
16 May- 21 May 2022
Cambridge Arts Theatre
23 May- 28 May
The Lowry Salford
30 May- 04 June
Aylesbury Waterside Theatre
06 June- 18 June
Yvonne Arnaud Guilford
13 June- 18 June
Churchill Theatre Bromley
20 June- 25 June
Theatre Royal Glasgow
27 June- 02 July
