Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

2013

Role: Jeremy Potts

Lyric Theatre, QPAC

Space

The 1968 British musical-fantasy film directed by Ken Hughes with a screenplay co-written by Roald Dahl and Hughes, loosely based on Ian Fleming’s novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car (1964) was adapted for the stage with music and lyrics written by Richard and Robert Sherman with a book by Jeremy Sams. The musical premiered in the West End at the London Palladium on 16 April 2002 with six new songs by the Sherman Brothers. The Broadway production opened on 28 April 2005 at the Lyric Theatre (then the Hilton Theatre). After its closing in London, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang toured around the UK. The UK Tour visited Asia when it opened on 2 November 2007 in Singapore. The Australian national production opened on 17 November 2012.