Marriott Theatre’s revival of “Catch Me If You Can” is fueled by a zippy, eye-catching performance from JJ Niemann, a rising young Broadway star from “Hamilton” who has amassed a massive following on social media, and who apparently has enough clout in Gotham to attract no less than Marc Shaiman, the composer and co-lyricist of the the 2011 Broadway musical based on the 2002 Steven Spielberg movie, to his opening night in bucolic Lincolnshire.

The story’s lead character is Frank Abagnale Jr., a famed all-American con man whose multifarious schemes including his successfully posing as a doctor, as assistant state’s attorney and both a TWA and a Pan Am pilot (or so he claimed), but whose real raison d’etre was to spend the pre-digital 1960s engaged in forgery, identity theft and other forms

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