A star from the TV show 'Dallas' will be performing at Malvern Theatres later this month in the national tour of Catch Me If You Can.

Patrick Duffy, Linda Purl and Gray O'Brien are joining forces to perform the classic Broadway thriller. 

 Duffy is known for playing Bobby Ewing in the CBS primetime drama 'Dallas', while Linda Purl is famous for her roles in 'Happy Days' (Fonzie's girlfriend), 'The Office US' (Pam's Mum) and 'Matlock' (Charlene Matlock) and Gray O'Brien is best known as Tony Gordon in Coronation Street. 

Malvern Gazette:

This is Duffy's first UK tour of a show.

When asked about the differences between British and American audiences he said: "I’m gonna get killed in America for saying this but British audiences are dedicated theatregoers.

"People in America tend to go to see plays and shows in places like New York, Los Angeles and maybe Chicago but it seems like everybody in the UK knows theatre.

"They know ballet, they know opera, they know dramatic theatre, musicals and panto so they’re well-tuned to the theatre experience.

"They’re not going in on a learning curve and I find that really wonderful.

"British audiences to me are the quintessential audience to play to or to play with, I should say."

Despite never having toured in the UK before, Mr Duffy has performed at London's West End.

Malvern Gazette:

However, Linda Purl has never acted on a British stage before.

She said: "Am I nervous? Of course I am!

"I’m getting hives just thinking about it but it’s so exciting.

"We were saying to our castmates the other day ‘Why do we do this?’ because it’s always terrifying.

"It’s like labour pains, where you forget what it was like and go ‘I’ll have another kid, it’ll be fine’.

"But the joy, the learning curve and the life adventure of it far outweigh the hives."

A spokesperson for the tour summarised the show, they said: "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?"