Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 2005

The run closed December 31, 2005

Opened

April 28, 2005

Closed

December 31, 2005

Performances

285

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Lyric Theatre

Of the 397 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and carry a performance count, this is the 75th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1 more that season

Who was in it51 named

Raul Esparzab. 1970

E

Erin Dillyb. 1972

P

Philip Bosco

M

Marc Kudisch

J

Jan Maxwell

K

Kevin Cahoon

H

Henry Hodges

E

Ellen Marlow

F

Frank Raiter

R

Robert Sella

Chip Zienb. 1947

J

J. B. Adams

R

Robert Creighton

R

Rick Faugno

M

Michael Herwitz

R

Robyn Hurder

W

William Ryall

Tim Federleb. 1980

Tolan Aman
Julie Barnes
Troy Edward Bowles
Jeffrey Broadhurst
Antonio D Amato
Struan Erlenborn
Ashlee Fife
Emily Fletcher
Kearran Giovanni
Rod Harrelson
Ben Hartley
Merritt Tyler Hawkins
Libbie Jacobson
Kenneth Kantor
Matt Loehr
Dirk Lumbard
Mayumi Miguel
Malcolm Morano
Jaclyn Neidenthal
Heather Parcells
Lurie Poston
Craig Ramsay
Alex Sanchez
Bret Shuford
Janelle Viscomi
Kurt von Schmittou
Emma Wahl
Brynn Williams
Paul Canaan
Sabra Lewis
Gabriella Malek
Michael Mindlin
Jeff Williams

18 of these 51 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 33 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Characters12 roles held

Raúl Esparza Caractacus Potts
Erin Dilly Truly Scrumptious
Philip Bosco Grandpa Potts
Henry Hodges Jeremy Potts
Ellen Marlow Jemima Potts
Marc Kudisch Baron Bomburst
Jan Maxwell Baroness Bomburst
Kevin Cahoon Childcatcher
Frank Raiter Toymaker
Robert Sella Boris
Chip Zien Goran
Kenneth Kantor Lord Scrumptious

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Creative team

Director

Adrian Noble

Choreographer

Gillian Lynne

Orchestrations

and

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Recordings 8 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a stage musical with music and lyrics written by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman and a book by Jeremy Sams. It is based on the 1968 film of the same name with screenplay by Roald Dahl, Ken Hughes, and Richard Maibaum. The 1968 film was based in turn on the book of the same name by Ian Fleming. The musical's world premiere was staged at the London Palladium on April 16, 2002, directed by Adrian Noble before the show opened on Broadway in 2005.

One night, the title character of the show, a flying car, stalled in the flying position. No matter what the stagehands tried, the car would not move and the show had to stop. Show and Tell the New Book of Broadway Anecdotes Ken Bloom Bloom Ken Oxford Univ, p. 307

• other producers followed suit with stage versions of popular films or stories such as Big (1996), Seussical (2000), A Year with Frog and Toad (2003), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (2005) The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 172
• Starting with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Australia, 2006), and Legally Blonde (2007), this division has plans to musicalise another fifteen films for the stage. Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 390
• the pages of Variety were overrun with news about one box office disaster after another, among them Camelot and Doctor Dolittle (1967); Finian’s Rainbow, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Star! (1968) Dominic Mchugh the Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations 2019 Ox, p. 557
• The company of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang sent us a giant jar of truly scrumptious Hershey’s chocolates. We went through it very quickly but kept refilling it throughout the run. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 1 2005 May 31 2006 Viagas Robert Second Annu, p. 18
• Runner-up was “Chitty Chitty Bye Bye,” a skit performed by the child actors of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 1 2005 May 31 2006 Viagas Robert Second Annu, p. 453

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What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• Which of the 8 recordings of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.