Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Shows · Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts restores a broken-down old race car that turns out to have magical powers — it can float and fly. With his two children and the beautiful Truly Scrumptious, Caractacus embarks on a fantastical adventure to the fictional country of Vulgaria, where the evil Baron Bomburst and his wife have banned all children. The family must outwit the villains, rescue the hidden children of Vulgari…
- Opened
- 2005
- Performances
- 285
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Productions2 on Broadway
| 2002 | Transfer Theatre unknown. April 16, 2002 · predates this show | |
| 2005 | Hilton Theatre Original. April 28, 2005 · Adrian Noble | 285 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 8 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Chitty Chitty Bang Bang matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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19 passages naming Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
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) book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p172
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. book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p390
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) book:dominic-mchugh-the-oxford-handbook-of-musical-theatre-screen-adaptations-2019-ox#p557
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. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-1-2005-may-31-2006-viagas-robert-second-annu#p18
Runner-up was “Chitty Chitty Bye Bye,” a skit performed by the child actors of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-1-2005-may-31-2006-viagas-robert-second-annu#p453
Vanessa Brown, our child wrangler. She has done 19 Broadway shows including: the original Ragtime (ummm...Hello Lea Michele); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; the revivals of South Pacific and The Sound Of Music. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2010-to-may-2011-edited-by-robert-viagas-7th#p405
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