Productions3 on Broadway
| 2002 | Transfer Theatre not recorded. · predates this show | |
| 2003 | Transfer Theatre not recorded. · predates this show | |
| 2005 | Hilton Theatre Original. April 28, 2005 · Adrian Noble | 285 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 2 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.
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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In the literature19 passages
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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