To Catch A Thief: The Musical continues its journey in March, when it will have its first Staged Reading at Skylight Music Theatre in Milwaukee, WI, on March 14 & 15, 2025. The performances will feature a cast of twenty-seven performers with a seven-piece orchestra, and will be directed by celebrated regional director, Michael Unger.
One of Milwaukee’s treasures, Skylight Music Theatre has established a reputation for broad and adventuresome repertoire, encompassing baroque opera, European operetta, Gilbert and Sullivan, Broadway musicals, contemporary chamber operas, and original musical revues. This tantalizing mix of repertoire fulfills the mission of the Skylight, which is to bring the full spectrum of musical theatre works to a wide and diverse audience in celebration of the musical and theatrical arts and their reflection of the human condition.
The Skylight gives over 90 performances each season, winning national praise for its artistic excellence, versatility, and virtuoso ensemble productions.
Emphasizing the development of emerging American artists, directors, and designers, Skylight Music Theatre attracts important new talent from around the country. With extended rehearsal and production periods, Skylight artists are able to hone their skills, expand their repertoire, and gain invaluable experience.
Skylight Music Theatre’s Cabot Theatre is a replica of an 18th century, Jewel Box Opera House - Le théâtre de la Coupe d'Or, in Rochefort France.
To Catch A Thief: The Musical plans to arrive on London’s West End in 2026, with a Broadway premiere expected sometime in 2027. The new musical features book and lyrics by BTC artistic director, Peter Sham (Lend Me A Tenor: The Musical and Sherlock Holmes and the Great Royal Goose Chase), and a musical score by award-winning composer, Kevin Purcell (Rebecca: The Musical and The Stranger From Seville).
To Catch a Thief is David Dodge's most famous novel, and rightly so, Alfred Hitchcock firmly cinched its place in the annals of crime fiction by adapting it into an Academy Award-winning, classic film starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. Set on the French Riviera, the story centers on John Robie, an American expatriate and skilled gymnast, who once upon a time was "Le Chat," the famous and elusive cat burglar who worked the South of France. The legend of Le Chat grew with each crime. Following the war, Robie retires to a quiet life in France and vows to leave his past behind. His retirement is shattered when a copycat burglar commits a string of robberies that puts the police on Le Chat's trail again. Robie must catch the phony Le Chat before the police catch him.
To Catch a Thief: The Musical had a very successful first table-read at Open Jar Studios, 48th & Broadway, on December 18, 2023. Visit: www.tocatchathiefmusical.com
Kevin Purcell (composer), Martin Platt (producer), David Elliott (producer), Stephanie Klapper (casting director) and the first table-read cast of To Catch A Thief: The Musical. Photo by Peter Sham (writer)
