The run closed December 31, 2005
- Opened
- April 28, 2005
- Closed
- December 31, 2005
- Performances
- 285
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Lyric Theatre
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 73rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.
Other stagings of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 2 more that season
| 2002 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2003 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it51 named
Ellen Marlow
Frank Raiter
Robert Sella
J B Adams
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
14 of these 51 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 37 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 recorded
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
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
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.
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
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.