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Photo Preview: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG made its American premiere at Broadway's Hilton Theatre (213 West 42nd Street), beginning previews on Sunday, March 27, 2005 and opening on Thursday, April 28, 2005. The most fantasmagorical stage musical in the history of everything currently plays: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday at 7pm, Friday and Saturday at 8pm, with matinees on Wednesday at 2pm, Saturday at 2pm and Sunday at 3pm. Starting on July 5th, all evening performances will be at 7pm. The cast of fifty in CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG is led by Ra Back to top #32 Blofeld's Cat Blofeld's Cat Commander RNVR Commanding Officers 17542 posts Location:A secret hollowed out volcano in Sydney (33.79294 South, 150.93805 East) Posted 21 April 2005 - 02:48 AM There's a live action (remember this) sitcom on Indonesian TV called "SITI SITI BANG BANG." It's about Siti (a VW beetle) and Bang (an old Morris) who fall in love with each other. You heard me. Back to top #33 Qwerty Qwerty Commander RNVR Commanding Officers 85605 posts Location:New York / Pennsylvania Posted 21 April 2005 - 03:45 AM Back to top #34 Qwerty Qwerty Commander RNVR Commanding Officers 85605 posts Location:New York / Pennsylvania Posted 24 April 2005 - 10:39 PM Behind 'Chitty,' a pair of master mechanics Everybody who sees "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" will remember that flying car - at $1 million, Broadway's most stunning and expensive piece of F/X craftsmanship. What might be less obvious is the craftsmanship of songwriters Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman. Yet their work is key to this flashy $15 million British import, adapted from the 1968 children's movie. The stage version, starring Raul Esparza, Erin Dilly, Philip Bosco, a raft of fancy effects and a cast of 50, opens Thursday. "We're very thrilled," says Robert B., 79. "The New York cast is beautiful. We love those people. They've really put their own character into it." In an era when most Broadway scores are either watered-down Sondheim or schlock rock, the Shermans (they also wrote the scores for Disney's "Mary Poppins" and "The Jungle Book") represent an older tradition: soaring, graceful melodies in the manner of Jerome Kern, and peppy patter songs straight from an English music hall. So while audiences ooh and ahh as the magical car somehow takes flight over the orchestra pit - it is astounding - the Shermans are also happy to note that virtually every night, in England and now in U.S. previews, theatergoers are also clapping along in time to the title tune: "Oh you pretty Chitty Bang Bang, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang we love you. ... " "Every time the band strikes up the title song, everybody starts clapping along," says Richard M., 76. "My brother and I both said, 'They're not going to do that in New York, they're tough, they're a sophisticated audience.' And the very first show, they were doing it with enthusiasm - exactly the way they do it in London." The Shermans aren't British. You might not know it, though, from their output. The brothers, native New Yorkers, were staff writers at Disney during an eight-year period when the studio was adapting classic British children's stories with great gusto. "Mary Poppins" (1964), "The Jungle Book" (1965) and the studio's "Winnie the Pooh" films, all with Sherman scores, have an Edwardian feel. So does "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," which is not a Disney film but made every effort to seem like one, down to the casting of "Mary Poppins' Back to top Prev Page 2 of 2 1 2 Back to Ian Fleming (1953-1966) Reply to quoted posts     Clear

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There's a live action (remember this) sitcom on Indonesian TV called "SITI SITI BANG BANG." It's about Siti (a VW beetle) and Bang (an old Morris) who fall in love with each other. You heard me.

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Behind 'Chitty,' a pair of master mechanics Everybody who sees "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" will remember that flying car - at $1 million, Broadway's most stunning and expensive piece of F/X craftsmanship. What might be less obvious is the craftsmanship of songwriters Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman. Yet their work is key to this flashy $15 million British import, adapted from the 1968 children's movie. The stage version, starring Raul Esparza, Erin Dilly, Philip Bosco, a raft of fancy effects and a cast of 50, opens Thursday. "We're very thrilled," says Robert B., 79. "The New York cast is beautiful. We love those people. They've really put their own character into it." In an era when most Broadway scores are either watered-down Sondheim or schlock rock, the Shermans (they also wrote the scores for Disney's "Mary Poppins" and "The Jungle Book") represent an older tradition: soaring, graceful melodies in the manner of Jerome Kern, and peppy patter songs straight from an English music hall. So while audiences ooh and ahh as the magical car somehow takes flight over the orchestra pit - it is astounding - the Shermans are also happy to note that virtually every night, in England and now in U.S. previews, theatergoers are also clapping along in time to the title tune: "Oh you pretty Chitty Bang Bang, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang we love you. ... " "Every time the band strikes up the title song, everybody starts clapping along," says Richard M., 76. "My brother and I both said, 'They're not going to do that in New York, they're tough, they're a sophisticated audience.' And the very first show, they were doing it with enthusiasm - exactly the way they do it in London." The Shermans aren't British. You might not know it, though, from their output. The brothers, native New Yorkers, were staff writers at Disney during an eight-year period when the studio was adapting classic British children's stories with great gusto. "Mary Poppins" (1964), "The Jungle Book" (1965) and the studio's "Winnie the Pooh" films, all with Sherman scores, have an Edwardian feel. So does "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," which is not a Disney film but made every effort to seem like one, down to the casting of "Mary Poppins' Back to top Prev Page 2 of 2 1 2 Back to Ian Fleming (1953-1966) Reply to quoted posts     Clear