A new production of the classic Broadway thriller Catch Me If You Can starring Dallas legend
Patrick Duffy (The Man from Atlantis, Step by Step), Linda Purl (Happy Days, Homeland) and
Gray O’Brien (Coronation Street, The Loch, Peak Practice) visits the Theatre Royal Bath from
Monday 16th to Saturday 21st May as part of a nationwide UK tour.
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 rather than relieved, unleashing an extraordinary sequence of events
as the plot develops with more twists than a corkscrew.
Written by Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert, this highly entertaining mystery in which nothing
is what it seems and no-one is as they appear, is adapted from Robert Thomas’s French
play Trap For A Lonely Man.
Patrick Duffy, who stars as Daniel Corban, is known to audiences around the world for his
twelve-year role as Bobby Ewing in the CBS primetime drama Dallas. For more than forty
years, Patrick has appeared in some of television’s most beloved series. An original cast
member in Dallas, he starred in more than 300 episodes across all fourteen seasons between
1978 and 1991. Patrick’s many screen roles also include playing Mark Harris in NBC’s sci-fi
adventure series Man From Atlantis, Frank Lambert in the ABC sitcom Step By Step and
Stephen Logan in CBS’s The Bold And The Beautiful. His previous stage roles include starring
as Serge in the award-winning West End production of Art.
Linda Purl, who stars as Elizabeth Corban, is also known globally for her many screen roles
including Ashley, Fonzie's girlfriend, in the much-loved series Happy Days, Elizabeth Gaines in
the international hit Homeland, Helene in the American version of The Office and Charlene
Matlock in the legal drama Matlock. On stage, Linda has starred in the international tour of
Seven Deadly Sins Four Deadly Sinners, played the role of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar
Named Desire at California’s Rubicon Theatre and recently starred as Rosemary Clooney in
Tenderly at the New Vic in Santa Barbara.
Inspector Levine is played by Gray O’Brien. Well known on television for his award-winning
portrayal of the villainous Tony Gordon in 285 episodes of Coronation Street, he also starred
as Dr Tom Deneley in Peak Practice, played Dr Richard McCaig in Casualty and appeared as
Alan Redford in The Loch. His screen credits also include Taggart, the Doctor Who 2007
Christmas Special, Titanic: Blood and Steel and the film The Queen. Gray’s stage work
includes Sleuth in the West End and The Sound of Music on UK tour, in which he played
Captain Von Trapp. Previously at Bath’s Theatre Royal, he has starred in The Perfect Murder
in 2014, Dead Simple in 2015 and The Case Of The Frightened Lady in 2018.
Ben Nealon has toured to the Theatre Royal in ten thrillers previously. A stalwart of The Classic
Thriller Company and The Agatha Christie Theatre Company, Ben’s many visits to Bath have
included Spider’s Web in 2009, Murder On The Nile in 2012, Black Coffee in 2014 and, most
recently, The Lady Vanishes in 2019 and The Cat and the Canary in 2020. Best known on
television as Second Lt/Capt Jeremy Forsythe in ITV’s series Soldier Soldier and D.I. Baxter in
Doctors, Ben returns to the Theatre Royal to play the role of Father Kelleher.
The cast is completed by Hugh Futcher as Sidney, Chloe Zeitounian as Mrs Parker and Paul
Lavers as Everett Parker.
Catch Me If You Can is directed by Bob Tomson, whose acclaimed production of Blood
Brothers made a welcome return to Bath this March. The international hit musical, which has
toured the globe, was nominated for six Tony Awards on Broadway. Bob’s many successful
productions also include the West End hits Scrooge, Dreamboats and Petticoats, On The Piste
and The Mysterious Mr Love. His television credits include the BAFTA-nominated Hero To
Zero, Dream Team, Heartbeat and Brookside. Bob is also a regular guest director for
Emmerdale, Doctors and Father Brown.
Design for Catch Me If You Can is by Julie Godfrey, whose many credits include How The
Other Half Loves, Pack Of Lies and Rehearsal For Murder. Lighting is by Chris Davey, whose
previous theatre credits include Witness For The Prosecution, The Car Man and Bristol Old
Vic’s Touching the Void.
Catch Me If You Can tours to the Theatre Royal Bath from Monday 16th May to Saturday
21st May. Tickets are on sale at the Theatre Royal Bath Box Office on 01225 448844 and
online at www.theatreroyal.org.uk
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